Andrew Delbanco famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

As people spin faster and faster in the pursuit of merely personal happiness, they become exhausted in the futile effort of chasing themselves.
-- Andrew Delbanco

#Happy #People #Effort
The most striking feature of contemporary culture is the unslaked craving for transcendence.
-- Andrew Delbanco

#Culture #Transcendence #Craving
So we might say that the most important thing one can acquire in college is a well-functioning bullshit meter.
-- Andrew Delbanco

#College #Bullshit #Important

Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them.
Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.
People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.
People who deal with life generously and large-heartedly go on multiplying relationships to the end.
Science fiction is a field of writing where, month after month, every printed word implies to hundreds of thousands of people: 'There is change. Look, today's fantastic story is tomorrow's fact.
[Castellani's testimony] clearly illustrates the concern we have that there is no way to separate the efforts to proselytize from the efforts to reform people.
As labor is the common burden of our race, so the effort of some to shift their share of the burden onto the shoulders of others is the great durable curse of the race.
A recent report by UNEP and Interpol estimated that between 50 to 90 per cent of logging in key tropical countries of the Amazon basin, Central Africa and South East Asia is being carried out by organized crime. This threatens not only attempts to eradicate poverty and deforestation but also efforts to combat climate change.
"We will coordinate efforts of the PLO with responsible authorities in Jordan in all fields - politically, militarily and materially..." "It was very probable that the Jordan army might start the battle."
Our photographs are filthier and our stories are more disgusting. We make no effort to be artistic.

Andrew Delbanco famous quotes

You may also like: