Important Quotes - Page 196

I think it is important to be aware that the Internet has replaced the television, and has become a place where the uniformity of human society is accelerated.

Walt Whitman's "Leaves of Grass" is still in print. They're debating right now over Mark Twain. He's still available. Winslow Homer can still be seen. Our arts are - they're there. We got to go get them and understand that this is an important legacy for our country.

Laughter is an independent, tremendously important, and lurid emotion.

I do feel it's important to have some kind of faith in something, but [it is] impossible for many of us. I personally don't have any faith in anything, but it's great if you can.

The most important words in the English language are not 'I love you' but 'it's benign.'

Brand names aren't important to me at all.

There is scarcely anything more important in the government of men than the exact - I will ever say pedantic - observance of the regular forms by which the guilt or innocence of accused persons is determined.

It’s equally as important to me to be a good friend, and a good sister, and a good daughter. I’m very close with my family and friends.

I think it's really important to have a life and have interests outside of this [movie] business, and not rely on this business to validate you as a human being. If you do that, you're really in a dangerous spot.

Really, trees are nearly as important as men, and much better behaved.

Only nine States have been represented since my arrival till within three days. There are now Eleven States barely represented. This tardiness in the States or their Delegates, besides retarding the most important Business makes it exceeding fatiguing to those that do attend.

Beware of entrance to a quarrel, but, being in, bear t that th' opposed may beware of thee.

You cannot, sir, take from me any thing that I will more willingly part withal: except my life, except my life, except my life.

Call me what instrument you will, though you can fret me, you cannot play upon me.

So full of shapes is fancy That it alone is high fantastical.

To persevere In obstinate condolement is a course Of impious stubbornness: 'tis unmanly grief.

However, research in the years that followed found that in many of its important features, African American Vernacular English was becoming not less, but more different from other dialects.

It is far more important to me to preserve an unblemished conscience than to compass any object however great.

Writing checks for charities is necessary and important. But it can't compare with corporal works of mercy, which are infinitely greater.

The most important thing that certainly the United States and other Asian and Pacific actors have done is to urge that whatever happens, however the dispute is resolved, that it be resolved peacefully.

The most important thing in life is not to capitalize on your successes-any fool can do that. The really important thing is to profit from your mistakes.

There is a very important distinction between a critical attitude of mind (or critical faculty) and a sceptical attitude.

The first and most important reason for its elimination is the unquestioned fact that evolution is not a science; it is a hypothesis only, a speculation.

What is a Person? is a clear and comprehensive reconsideration of the meaning of human personhood as the central core of social structures. With breadth of intellect and balance of wisdom, Smith resets the frame of reflection for the most important discussions of the twenty-first century.

I suspect anyway that the important things we learn we never remember because they become a part of us, we absorb them...we don't absorb multiplication tables.