Home / Topics / Has Beens Quotes

Has Beens Quotes

Browse 25848 quotes about Has Beens.

Has Beens Quotes

“We did not choose to believe that personal choice is the highest human virtue. Rather, we were taught, formed, forced to believe nothing is important in life other than that which we have personally chosen. The irony is that the belief that nothing is important in life other than that which we have personally chosen is a belief that we have not personally chosen! The supermarket and shopping mall have been our school.”

Believe Humans Has Beens Important School Choices Belief Virtue Taught Highest Chosen Irony Shopping Consumerism Malls Overconsumption Supermarkets Personal Choice

Author:William Henry Willimon

“To suppose that the eye could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree”

Source: On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection; Or, The Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life

“Horsemanship through the history of all nations has been considered one of the highest accomplishments. You can't pass a park without seeing a statue of some old codger on a horse. It must be to his bravery, you can tell it's not to his horsemanship.”

Has Beens Nations Seeing Highest Horse Bravery Accomplishment Parks Statues Horsemanship

Author:Will Rogers

“Everest is regarded as one of, if not the most challenging of human conquests. I was passionate about climbing and a great believer that one should always challenge their own perception of where their boundaries lie. Everest seemed like an irrational challenge for an Egyptian, so I embraced it wholeheartedly. This feeling grew stronger when I realized that no Egyptian had attempted, let alone stood, on the roof of the world. The desire and pride of representing my country and raising the Egyptian flag on the highest points on earth has been with me ever since.”

“The danger is that we may fail to perceive life's greatest meaning, fall short of its highest good, miss its deepest and most abiding happiness, be unable to render the most needed service, be unconscious of life ablaze with the light of the Presence of God - and be content to have it so - that is the danger. That some day we may wake up and find that always we have been busy with the husks and trappings of life - and have really missed life itself.”

May Has Beens Light Fall Failing Missing Danger Needed Highest Wake Up Busy Perceive Unconscious Abiding Presence Of God

Author:Phillips Brooks

“Men have been taught that their first concern is to relieve the suffering of others. ... To make that the highest test of virtue is to make suffering the most important part of life. Then man must wish to see others suffer in order that he may be virtuous. Such is the nature of altruism.”

Men Firsts May Has Beens Important Suffering Order Wish Virtue Taught Highest Concern Tests Virtuous Altruism Parts Of Life Fountainhead Suffering Of Others

Book:For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)

Source: For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)

“In all modern history, interference with science in the supposed interest of religion, no matter how conscientious such interference may have been, has resulted in the direst evils both to religion and to science, and invariably; and, on the other hand, all untrammelled scientific investigation, no matter how dangerous to religion some of its stages may have seemed for the time to be, has invariably resulted in the highest good both of religion and of science.”

May Has Beens Matter Hands Evil Interest Modern Stage Dangerous Highest Investigation Interference Modern History

Book:A History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom

Source: A History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom