David Nasaw Quotes

#1. Sometimes emotion is gentle, like rain feeding the river to nourish life, but sometimes it explodes like a rainstorm whose floodwaters wipe out bridges and homes.

Deborah Sandella

#2. I am interested in outsiders. I suppose I have always felt like one myself.

Rebecca Pidgeon

#3. To entrust the government with the power of determining the education which our children receive is entrusting our servant with the power to be our master.

David Nasaw

#4. Great military leaders have to sacrifice soldiers; great captains of industry have to sacrifice people. You can't only look after the poor, and the weak, and the disabled. You've got to do what's best for the community, and that often means sacrificing innocent people.

David Nasaw

#5. Archeological and literary evidence makes it self-evident that different tribes, in different regions, at different times focused on different divine beings in their practice and worship.

C. Nico

#6. Mum and Dad split up when I was nine. We upped and moved from London to Sussex, and suddenly I went from an urban life to nothing in the countryside - with a new father and new life.

Sam Taylor-Johnson

#7. Some say that gleams of a remoter world Visit the soul in sleep - that death is slumber, And that its shapes the busy thoughts outnumber Of those who wake and live.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

#8. To be true is manly, chivalrous, Christian; to be false is mean, cowardly, devilish.

Thomas Carlyle

#9. Buffett, when he gave away his money, referenced Carnegie. He quoted from Carnegie. When he said, "The man who dies rich dies disgraced," in the 1880s, his fellow millionaires looked on him like he was a lunatic, you know, an idiot, a mad man.

David Nasaw

#10. Death deceives relations often, and doctors sometimes, but the patient - never.

Phyllis Bottome

#11. One must be of one's time and paint what one sees.

Edouard Manet

#12. Weltschmerz, basically, is the depression we feel when bamboozlers, fanatics, manipulators, trolls, bigots, demagogues, fear-mongers, liars and prigs threaten to take over the world, and there's nothing, we think, we can do about it.

Em L. Smith

#13. If we still advise we shall never do.

Elizabeth I

#14. He [Andrew Carnegie] wanted people to be able to lift themselves, to educate themselves, to train themselves. And there was no better way to do that than with libraries.

David Nasaw

#15. Carnegie believed in the survival of the fittest. He believed in Social Darwinism. He believed that you had to give an opportunity to the fittest, who were going to survive, to the fittest to rise themselves as high as they could.

David Nasaw

#16. Underlying the preaching of the Puritans are three basic axioms: 1. The unique place of preaching is to convert, feed and sustain, 2. The life of the preacher must radiate the reality of what he preaches, 3. Prayer and solid Bible study are basic to effective preaching.

J.I. Packer

#17. If you'll not let me be spiritual about it, you'll have to put up wi' my baser nature. I'm going to be a beast." He bit my neck. "Do ye want me to be a horse, a bear, or a dog?

Diana Gabaldon

#18. Don't allow people into your energy field on a regular basis that you wouldn't want to be like yourself.

Dawn Gluskin