Contributing Quotes - Page 2

• Ray Bradbury is one who is contributing to the understanding of the imagination and the curiosity of the human race.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Race, Imagination, Understanding

  1 Copy quote

• The generality of men expend the early part of their lives in contributing to render the latter part miserable.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Men, Miserable, Latter

  1 Copy quote

• Two ideas militate against our consciously contributing to a better world. The idea that we can do everything or the conclusion that we can do nothing to make this globe a better place to live are both temptations of the most insidious form. One leads to arrogance; the other to despair.

  Joan D. Chittister

  Ideas, Two, Temptation

  1 Copy quote

• One nourishes one's created characters with one's own substance: it's rather like the process of gestation. To give the character life, or to give him back life, it is of course necessary to fortify him by contributing something of one's own humanity, but it doesn't follow from that that the character is I, the writer, or that I am the character. The two entities remain distinct.

  Marguerite Yourcenar

  Character, Two, Giving

  1 Copy quote

• I've got three kids. I worry about them but the gospel freed me and freed my wife. We are not trying to make our kids think that we're super spiritual or we've got it all together. They see mom and dad being real people. What they hear dad talking about at home is not different from what they see from dad [at church]. That won't guarantee that they'll avoid the whole PK, MK thing. But we are hopefully not contributing to what normally produces that crisis, which is pretending.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Mom, Spiritual, Dad

  Source: www.christianpost.com

  1 Copy quote

  Show source

• To merely observe your culture without contributing to it seems very close to existing as a ghost.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Culture, Ghost, Seems

  "20 Q&As: Chuck Palahniuk". Interview with Stuart Hammond, www.dazeddigital.com. September 26, 2011.

  1 Copy quote

  Show source

• Military operations cannot be tidy or free of friction - particularly in a coalition whose contributing nations see the campaign through national prisms.

  Mike Jackson

  Military, Campaigns, Friction

  4 Copy quote

• During a long career in TV broadcasting, I spent a lot of time contributing to other people's creations.

  Alan Bradley

  Careers, Long, People

  1 Copy quote

• When you live in a place, you're not just taking from it, you're contributing to it. In America I would never be able to make myself a person who could contribute. I wasn't interested in that society; I was interested in this society.

  Bryan Brown

  America, Able, This Society

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

  1 Copy quote

  Show source

• But it was this tough little character part that I was playing, a very funny little guy that I invented over a weekend, because I realized I was not contributing to the humor of this thing. And I had to do something.

  Dabney Coleman

  Character, Weekend, Guy

  1 Copy quote

• Our marvelous new information technologies boost our power and opportunities for political engagement, but they can also disempower us by contributing to extreme political mobilization that sometimes overwhelms our institutions. These institutions were designed for rural societies operation at a tiny fraction of today's speed and with a citizenry vastly less capable that today's. It's unclear how they will change to adapt to the new reality, but change they must.

  Thomas Homer-Dixon

  Technology, Opportunity, Reality

  9 Copy quote

• There are few professing Christians, it may be feared, who strive to imitate Christ in the matter of private devotion. There is abundance of hearing, reading, talking, professing, visiting, contributing to the poor and teaching at schools. But is there, together with all this, a due proportion of private prayer? Are believing men and women sufficiently careful to be frequently alone with God?

  J. C. Ryle

  Christian, Prayer, Believe

  24 Copy quote

• Never receive counsel from unproductive people. Never discuss your problems
  with someone incapable of contributing to the solution, because those who
  never succeed themselves are always first to tell you how. Not everyone has
  a right to speak into your life. You are certain to get the worst of the
  bargain when you exchange ideas with the wrong person. Don't follow anyone
  who's not going anywhere.

  Colin Powell

  Ideas, People, Succeed

  388 Copy quote

• India has been contributing very much to the reconstruction of Afghanistan; we are strongly engaged there.

  Joschka Fischer

  India, Engagement, Reconstruction

  4 Copy quote

• The united, well-ordered American home is one of the greatest contributing factors to the preservation of the Constitution of the United States.

  David O. McKay

  Home, America, United States

  6 Copy quote

• Finally, I would like to remind record companies that they have a cultural responsibility to give the buying public great music. Milking a trend to death is not contributing to culture and is ultimately not profitable.

  Tony Visconti

  Responsibility, Giving, Culture

  1 Copy quote

• So in 1987 I gave up all animal products and became a vegan. Simply so that I could eat and live in accordance with my beliefs that animals have their own lives, that they're entitled to their own lives and that contributing to animal suffering is something that I don't want to be a part of.

  Moby

  Animal, Suffering, Want

  12 Copy quote

• The citizens of a city are not guilty of the crimes committed in their city; but they are guilty as participants in the destiny of [humanity] as a whole and in the destiny of their city in particular; for their acts in which freedom was united with destiny have contributed to the destiny in which they participate. They are guilty, not of committing the crimes of which their group is accused, but of contributing to the destiny in which these crimes happened.

  Paul Tillich

  Destiny, Cities, Humanity

  4 Copy quote

• The perspective of Love doesn't leave anybody out. Until your vision and compassion is big enough to include those who oppose you, you are simply contributing to the continuation of destructiveness . The end of separation is the salvation for all.

  Adyashanti

  Compassion, Perspective, Vision

  8 Copy quote

• There
  is not a person alive who is not capable of greatly contributing to the
  well - being of this planet. Just changing your attitude can affect the
  world around you.

  Susan Jeffers

  Attitude, Alive, World

  Susan Jeffers (2014). “Feel The Fear And Do It Anyway”, p.157, Random House

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• Educational exchange can turn nations into people, contributing as no other form of communication can to the humanizing of international relations

  J. William Fulbright

  Educational, Communication, People

  79 Copy quote

• In academic life, false ideas are merely false and useless ones can be fun to play with. In political life, false ideas can ruin the lives of millions and useless ones can waste precious resources. An intellectual's responsibility for his ideas is to follow their consequences wherever they may lead. A politician's responsibility is to master those consequences and prevent them from doing harm. Michael Ignatieff, a former professor at Harvard and contributing writer for the magazine, is a member of Canada's Parliament and deputy leader of the Liberal Party.

  Michael Ignatieff

  Fun, War, Party

  "Getting Iraq Wrong". www.nytimes.com. August 5, 2007.

  1 Copy quote

  Show source

• It is, indeed, part of the liberal attitude to assume that, especially in the economic field, the self-regulating forces of the market will somehow bring about the required adjustments to new conditions, although no one can foretell how they will do this in a particular instance. There is perhaps no single factor contributing so much to people

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Attitude, Self, People

  2 Copy quote

• No myth dies harder, and none is more regularly debunked by the facts, than the one about international sports contributing to international friendship.

  Alistair Cooke

  Sports, Facts, Myth

  Alistair Cooke (1996). “Fun and Games with Alistair Cooke: On Sport and Other Amusements”, p.14, Arcade Publishing

  1 Copy quote

  Show source

• The expenses of government, having for their object the interest of all, should be borne by everyone, and the more a man enjoys the advantages of society, the more he ought to hold himself honored in contributing to those expenses.

  Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, Baron de Laune

  Men, Advantage, Should

  16 Copy quote