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Benjamin Jowett Quotes

The achievements which society rewards are won at the cost of diminution of personality.

Benjamin Jowett

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: theologian
Nationality: english
Birth: April 15, 1817 - October 1, 1893

Topics

Personality Society Cost Rewards Won

What is essential - the one thing that could stop us being coarsened to other lives - is that we feel a great, living wave of animal life all around us, covering the earth.

Life Great Animal Feel Wave Earth

When it shall be known that, at the time which I was accused of wishing to sunder this island from France - my benefactress - I repeated the oath of fidelity to her, I take pleasure in believing that the government I own, and my fellow-citizens, will render me the justice I merit, and that the enemies of my brethren will be reduced to silence.

Toussaint Louverture

Time Justice Silence Government Me

I was eight when I played St. Joseph, and I told my mom from that moment on I wanted to be an actor.

Moment Mom Actor Eight Wanted

Films are tricky because for years you're getting told you're about to make it and you're about to be busy for four or six months or you're about to be on tour for press. But these things tend not to happen, and meanwhile you've said 'no' to many things 'cause you thought you were going to be busy, for years, for years this happens.

Busy Thought You Said Years Happen

I think UNC and Lorrie Fair is a perfect match.

Think Perfect Fair Match I Think

I'm not sure why I'm so often disgusting on stage. I don't always know where it comes from.

Know Why Always Stage Where Sure

I'm blessed with a pretty good voice. So just sitting back there banging on the tubs wasn't enough.

Good Blessed Voice Enough Back Just

I do, however, feel reasonably strongly the sense that the job of a piece of argumentative scholarly non-fiction is not the same as the job of a piece of fiction.

Job Feel Same Fiction Sense Piece

Show me any top entertainer or top business executive, and I'll show you a guy who has mapped out his life from the very start.

Life Business Me Start You Top

I have been described by one of my colleagues as a 'militant agnostic' with my tagline, 'I don't know, and neither do you!' I take this hard-line, fence-sitting position because it is the only position consistent with both my scientific ethos and my conscience.

Colleagues You Know Conscience Take

On the other hand, I don't understand the enthusiasm for everything in the antique shop that Grandma threw out. There, the sense of quality has declined; otherwise Grandma wouldn't have thrown it out.

Quality Enthusiasm Understand Hand

I am filled with so much sincerity and gratitude to know where I came from and what I'm doing now.

Gratitude I Am Doing Know Now Where

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