Cosmopolite 4 Quotes & Sayings

God has made man a cosmopolite. He created seas for ships to glide on, the wind to push them, and the stars to guide them even in darkest night. — Jose Rizal

That man's the best cosmopolite Who loves his native country best. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

Why, I've seen Kentuckians who hated whiskey, Virginians who weren't descended from Pocahontas, Indianians who hadn't written a novel, Mexicans who didn't wear velvet trousers with silver dollars sewed along the seams, funny Englishmen, spendthrift Yankees, cold-blooded Southerners, narrow- minded Westerners, and New Yorkers who were too busy to stop for an hour on the street to watch a one-armed grocer's clerk do up cranberries in paper bags. Let a man be a man and don't handicap him with the label of any section. — O. Henry

He despised philosophy as soft and unverifiable. Philosophers "are always on the outside making stupid remarks," he said, and the word he pronounced philozawfigal was a mocking epithet, but his influence was philosophical anyway, particularly for younger physicists. — James Gleick

The lifeblood of Christianity is not our persistence in moving toward God but God's persistence in moving toward us. — Tullian Tchividjian

We trust people we can count on. We count on people who do what they say they will do when they say they will do it. — Tim Wright

I'm not scared of growing up, but it just happens, doesn't it? — Nicholas Hoult

He was a noble man, as well as a nobleman." * "Mannerheim did not grow up among the masses, but in a castle.... he was a cosmopolite in the age of nationalism; an aristocrat in the age of democracy; a conservative in the age of revolutions."t — William R. Trotter

The fool is the one true cosmopolite - the one character common to all nationalities. — Helen McCloy

When a woman starts out in the world on a mission, secular or religious, she should leave her feminine charms at home. — Jane Swisshelm

The 13-episode model lends itself to a more serialised format, which is nice and gives writers a chance to breathe some space into it. — Eddie Cahill