Miscellaneous Quotes - Page 11

• A good snapshot stops a moment from running away.

  Eudora Welty

  Photography, Running, Snapshots

  Eudora Welty (1998). “Stories, Essays, and Memoir”

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• Besides, in this random miscellaneous company we may rub against some complete stranger who will, with luck, turn into the best friend we have in the world.

  Virginia Woolf

  Luck, World, May

  Virginia Woolf (2009). “Selected Essays”, p.311, OUP Oxford

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• Too long a sacrifice can make a stone of the heart. O when may it suffice?

  William Butler Yeats

  Broken Heart, Sacrifice, Long

  "Easter 1916" l. 57 (1921)

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• The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.

  William Butler Yeats

  Life, Heart, World

  William Butler Yeats (1954). “The Letters of W.B. Yeats”

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• Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills.

  Voltaire

  Nature, Animal, Men

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• Post-Watergate morality, by which anything left private is taken as presumptive evidence of wrongdoing.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Taken, Morality, Evidence

  Charles Krauthammer (1985). “Cutting edges: making sense of the eighties”, Random House (NY)

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• The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution.

  Bertrand Russell

  Challenges, Way, Problem

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• There are those who hate Christianity and call their hatred an all-embracing love for all religions.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Hate, If There Is A God, Christian Inspirational

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• The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.

  L.P. Hartley

  Country, Memories, Future

  "The Go-Between". Book by L.P. Hartley, 1953.

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• Today, we need a nation of Minutemen, citizens who are not only prepared to take arms, but citizens who regard the preservation of freedom as the basic purpose of their daily life and who are willing to consciously work and sacrifice for that freedom.

  John F. Kennedy

  Freedom, Sacrifice, Gun

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• Man is rated the highest animal, at least among all animals who returned the questionnaire.

  Robert Breault

  Animal, Men, Mankind

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• More good things in life are lost by indifference than ever were lost by active hostility.

  Robert Menzies

  Things In Life, Indifference, Good Things

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• I shall not let a sorrow die Until I find the heart of it, Nor let a wordless joy go by Until it talks to me a bit.

  Sara Teasdale

  Heart, Joy, Sorrow

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• A little learning is not a dangerous thing to one who does not mistake it for a great deal.

  William Allen White

  Mistake, Doe, Littles

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• One key and defining attribute of God that does not appear in any other world religion or system is the biblical use of the term "Father." Over 70 times in the New Testament alone, God is described as "Father" to His children. No major world religion describes the relationship between its creator and its adherents in terms of a father.

  Ergun Caner

  Children, Father, Biblical

  Ed Hindson, Ergun Caner (2008). “The Popular Encyclopedia of Apologetics: Surveying the Evidence for the Truth of Christianity”, p.254, Harvest House Publishers

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• Some books we read, tho' few there are that hit the happy point where wisdom joins with wit.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Book, Wit

  Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.131, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• Fame — the aggregate of all the misunderstandings that collect around a new name.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Names, Fame, Misunderstanding

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• I would advise you to read with a pen in your hand and enter in a little book short hints of what you feel that is common or that may be useful; for this will be the best method of imprinting such portcullis in your memory.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Memories, Book, Hands

  James C. Humes, Benjamin Franklin (1995). “The wit and wisdom of Benjamin Franklin: a treasury of more than 900 quotations and anecdotes”, Harpercollins

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• The chief characteristics of the [liberal] attitude are human sympathy, a receptivity to change, and a scientific willingness to follow reason rather than faith.

  Chester Bowles

  Attitude, Reason, Characteristics

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• You have to write a good score that you feel good about. At least, you're supposed to. But, if the director hates it, it ain't going to be in the movie!

  Danny Elfman

  Hate, Writing, Feel Good

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• We are wide-eyed in contemplating the possibility that life may exist elsewhere in the universe, but we wear blinders when contemplating the possibilities of life on earth.

  Norman Cousins

  Earth, May, Possibility

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• Wandering seemed no more than the happiness of an anxious man.

  Albert Camus

  Men, Wander, Anxious

  Albert Camus (2012). “Happy Death”, p.105, Vintage

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• To live is in itself a value judgment. To breathe is to judge.

  Albert Camus

  Judging, Judgment, Breathe

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.8, Vintage

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• If any form of government is capable of making a nation happy, ours I think bids fair now for producing that effect. But after all much depends upon the people who are governed.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Thinking, Government, People

  Benjamin Franklin, William-Temple Franklin (1818). “Memoirs of the Life and Writings of (the Same), Continued to the Time of His Death by William Temple Franklin. - London, H. Colburn 1818”, p.396

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• The new frontier lies not beyond the planets but within each one of us.

  Pierre Trudeau

  Lying, Planets, New Frontiers

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