Benjamin Jowett Quotes

Nowhere probably is there more true feeling, and nowhere worse taste, than in a churchyard.

Benjamin Jowett

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

FeelingTrueMoreTasteNowhere

We don't want to think about money in an ideal life; in a well-lived life, money wouldn't be one of our primary concerns, and we prefer to adopt the ostrich position.

John Lanchester

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Names were not so much dropped as thrown in a perpetual game of catch.

Robert Morley

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When I play, I feel like I'm in a theatre, why should I look ugly then, because I'm a tennis-player?

Anna Kournikova

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I happen to be a huge 'Lord of the Rings' fan. I do an annual marathon of the extended editions.

Anna Kendrick

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No genre of music is better than another, whether it's country, hip-hop, trap, classical, whatever. It's all music.

Stromae

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I don't like comedy. I like funny things. I don't like comedy. Like, comedy movies are just, 'Oh Jesus.'

Louis C. K.

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I didn't have the confidence to leave the band because of a solo career, or anything like that. I just wanted to grow.

Dee Dee Ramone

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We don't woo our wives with clubs. We don't leave old folks on ice floes. And maybe the time has come to quit diving into rip tides to save people we don't know. We've outgrown a lot of survival-of-the-fittest strategies, and risking our lives for strangers might be one of them.

Christopher McDougall

TimePeopleIceStrangersKnowQuit

Pretty much, you point to a problem and good reasoning about why people are doing what they are doing and what constraints they face in terms of how others will behave, and you're looking at a problem that could be improved upon by game-theoretic reasoning.

Bruce Bueno de Mesquita

GoodPeopleLookingFaceProblem

Death Row is the same every day - breakfast at 3 A.M., lunch at 10 A.M., dinner at 3 P.M.

Anthony Ray Hinton

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When I was little, I used to watch Disney movies all the time, and it drove me crazy that Cinderella's tights wouldn't gather at her ankle when her foot bent, so I kept trying to make sure that I didn't get those little creases on my ankle because Cinderella didn't have them.

Allison Williams

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Truth as such is not a particularly important concept in naturalistic philosophy.

Phillip E. Johnson

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