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David Brainerd Quotes

Worldly pleasures, such as flow from greatness, riches, honours, and sensual gratifications, are infinitely worse than none.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: clergyman
Nationality: american
Birth: April 20, 1718 - October 9, 1747

Topics

Greatness Flow Sensual Worse None

I love MTV, and I love the VMAs. There's no award show like it. It really is the coolest award show, hands down.

Love Award Hands Down Show Like

The endings to me are the key moment in 'Weekend' and '45 Years.' I know how I want my gut to feel at the ending. Even if I can't articulate in words what that feeling is, I'm trying to find ways to get there.

Moment Words Me Ending Key Weekend

I'm against government-subsidized parking and government-mandated parking.

Matthew Yglesias

Parking Against

Just be a cool grandpa who's creative, and hang out and tell stories and read a book in the library.

Creative Cool Book Library Out Tell

To achieve the impossible; it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.

Impossible Thought Achieve Must

A man should control his life. Mine is controlling me.

Rudolph Valentino

Life Man Me Control Mine Should

Some things, like the orbits of the planets, can be calculated far into the future. But that's atypical. In most contexts, there is a limit. Even the most fine-grained computation can only forecast British weather a few days ahead. There are limits to what can ever be learned about the future, however powerful computers become.

Future Weather Limits Computers Days

No one involved in corruption will be spared, no matter who they are, I assure you. Whether a minister, a prince, or anyone. Anyone who is guilty of corruption will be held accountable.

Mohammad bin Salman

Corruption You Guilty Will Matter

Ummm... well, the only thing I want to do is stuff with people who care about what they're doing, which sounds obvious, but it's really not.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

People Care Doing Want Obvious Well

I'm really into the human interest thing. I really like regular people.

Chelsea Handler

People Human Interest Like Really

I don't take roles that are 'just another role.' I'm interested in learning more about myself and about humanity. So it should change you by the time it's done.

Change Learning Time Myself You

To understand how black projects began, and how they continue to function today, one must start with the creation of the atomic bomb. The men who ran the Manhattan Project wrote the rules about black operations. The atomic bomb was the mother of all black projects, and it is the parent from which all black operations have sprung.

Mother Today Men Start Black Parent

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