Battait La Quotes & Sayings

If we put ourselves in the place of other people, the jealousy and hatred we so often feel about them would disappear, and if we put others in our place, pride and conceit would greatly diminish. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Pascal makes no attempt in this most famous argument to show that his Roman Catholicism is true or probably true. The reasons which he suggests for making the recommended bet on his particular faith are reasons in the sense of motives rather than reasons in the sense of grounds. Conceding, if only for the sake of the present argument, that we can have no knowledge here, Pascal tries to justify as prudent a policy of systematic self-persuasion, rather than to provide grounds for thinking that the beliefs recommended are actually true. — Antony Flew

It is your heart behind the action that allows you to prosper, not the action yourself. You can give away all your possessions, time, and energy, but if you do it to look good, to look pious, to look holy, you have already lost. — J. Evan Johnson

While not as common as they used to be, entire groups of people with what seems like an infinite amount of time on their hands to be angry about something that doesn't even affect them in the slightest, still exist. — Lindsey Ouimet

I love track and field, but I also know the day will come when I will have to do something else. — Jackie Joyner-Kersee

I have two dogs myself and they are always around when I write, so they tend to creep in there. — Arthur Bradford

I grew up on Avenue C, and Tompkins Square Park was my park. That was where I played ball every day. I lived in that park. — Ramon Rodriguez

I guess I can be a little neurotic sometimes, but can't everybody? — Rebecca Romijn

Minneapolis was small, somnolent, and full of Swedish and Norwegian farmers as charming as cornstalks. — Erik Larson

I prefer to leave standing up, like a well-mannered guest at a party. — Leontyne Price

I think I'm a lot funnier and goofier than people were able to see on 'Dancing With the Stars.' — J. R. Martinez

Without a positive representation in the mythos to consolidate its sociocultural existence, homosexuality remains completely vulnerable to a resurgence of homophobia and scapegoating. — Gilles Herrada

Knowledge will not attract money, unless it is organized, and intelligently directed, through practical plans of action, to the definite end of accumulation of money. — Napoleon Hill

Earthquake report: Call the paramedics. A girl in fifth grade is about to explode. — Sharon M. Draper

I know that my tendency is to be linear, and I'm trying to find ways to subvert that. And so in 'Bellocq's Ophelia' my device for subverting it was to tell the story and then to tell it again; it always circles back to this one moment, and it's not linear, but it's round in that way, and much of 'Native Guard' is like that. — Natasha Trethewey