Harry Emerson Fosdick Quotes

Our power is not so much in us as through us.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: clergyman
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: May 24, 1878 - October 5, 1969

Topics

PowerThroughUsOurMuch

I wanted to become an actor because I wanted to become a gypsy. I wanted to live the gypsy life!

Jeremy Irons

LifeLiveActorBecomeBecause

People who have very devastating lives sometimes have the most wild, avant-garde humor. It's like when you've seen it all and been through it all, nothing is off-limits in a way.

Jenny Zhang

HumorPeopleYouSometimesNothing

People have been to jail when they're innocent. I knew I would never miss a single ball on a snooker table on purpose and, until then, I was sure the evidence would support me.

John Higgins

PurposeSupportPeopleMeTable

I'm not hostile. I'm passionate.

Amanda Seales

PassionateHostile

There is very little love in this world, and if you give love, you will get it back.

Shilpa Shinde

LoveWorldYouBackWillLittle

I've experienced as much fame as I ever want to.

Trevor Dunn

FameWantMuchEverExperienced

It's no big thing, but you make big things out of little things sometimes.

Robert Duvall

Little ThingsYouSometimesOutBig

I was extremely shy. I am still shy, but I won't show it on stage.

Romeo Santos

I AmShyStageShowStillAm

In all my science fiction movies, I try to blend the familiar with the futuristic so as not to be too off-putting to the audience. There is always something familiar they can grab onto.

David Twohy

ScienceMoviesTryScience Fiction

When you look at every government, they're our elected officials, and you have to have some form of respect for them.

Brian Littrell

RespectGovernmentYouLookSome

I think that we as a people are always prone to think about, well, tomorrow will be a better day. Well, why will it be a better day? And I think the more that we believe in doing things better, doing the right thing rather than hoping that that's going to happen, let's make it happen.

Bobby Knight

DayTomorrowPeopleMake It Happen

As soldiers need not only courage but tactics also, so does a philosopher need not only courage and philosophy but discernment also, to tell what his right time of dying is - so that he neither seek it nor flee it.

Apollonius of Tyana

CourageTimePhilosophyRight Time

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