Top 26 Greenough Quotes
#1. In nakedness I behold the majesty of the essential instead of the trappings of pretension.
Horatio Greenough
#3. All of us should be on guard against beliefs that flatter ourselves. At the very least, we should check such beliefs against facts.
Thomas Sowell
#4. No cause, no God, no abstract idea can justify the mass slaughter of innocents.
Edward Said
#5. Total depravity means the entire absence of holiness, not the highest intensity of sin. A totally depraved man is not as bad as he can be, but he has no holiness, that is, no supreme love of God
William Greenough Thayer Shedd
#8. Is anyone human actually normal? I'm beginning to think being normal is actually abnormal.
Simone Elkeles
#9. That some unevangelized men are saved, in the present life, by an extraordinary exercise of redeeming grace in Christ, has been the hope and belief of Christendom. It was the hope and belief of the elder Calvinists, as of the later.
William Greenough Thayer Shedd
#10. The piecemeal criticism which, like the fly, scans only the edge of a plinth in the great edifice upon which it crawls, disappears under a criticism that is all-comprehending and all-surveying.
William Greenough Thayer Shedd
#11. If you have to drag somebody to register, they're not highly motivated.
Roger Stone
#12. I don't know any women who don't think about what they look like, and I don't know any men who don't think about what women look like.
Stanley Crouch
#13. If you look at the heroes of antiquity and myth, they all have flaws. It's something that they have to overcome; their flaws are something that they have to act in spite of. The challenge is not to defy your fate, but to endure it. That is heroic.
Nicholas Meyer
#14. I came up with my own expression. I like to make it hail. Yeah. That's when you throw change on sluts.
Daniel Tosh
#16. When you've paid your debt to society, you need to be reconnected and re-engaged in society.
Tom Vilsack
#18. Sensitive periods are triggered via the interaction of genetic timing and experience. Sensitive periods are times of rapid learning when thousands of synaptic connections are made each second (Greenough, 1987; ten Cate, 1989). The timing of sensitive periods varies
Louis Cozolino
#19. how 'man is the extension of woman 'occurred to me is so starnge
Makarand Fulzele
#20. The advantage of doing one's praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places.
Samuel Butler
#21. The mere habit of writing, of constantly keeping at it, of never giving up, ultimately teaches you how to write.
Gabriel Fielding
#22. When I was in Greenough, Montana, I came across a bear cub. I was off this path, and I thought, If there's a bear cub, that means there's a mother bear somewhere nearby. So I doubled back. If I'd kept going, I'm sure they would have eventually found my sneakers, and that's about it.
Al Roker
#23. Jim Longenbach, poet, critic, and my husband, is always passing along life-changing books for me to read.
Joanna Scott
#24. I thought about Cassidy, and how she pronounced "vitamin" the British way and hated when people took too many napkins in restaurants.
Robyn Schneider
#26. There is just now a great clamor and demand for "culture;" but it is not so much culture that is needed as discipline.
William Greenough Thayer Shedd
