|
| Navigation: Famous Quotes and Authors - Random Quotes |
|
|
|
Random Quotes and Quotations
 I find the three major administrative problems on a campus are sex for the students, athletics for the alumni and parking for the faculty.  Everything's in the mind. That's where it all starts. Knowing what you want is the first step toward getting it. - Mae West Servant of God, well done! Well hast thou fought The better fight. The English never draw a line without blurring it. I've just learned about his illness; let's hope it's nothing trivial. Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. Times of general calamity and confusion have ever been productive of the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storms. A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism; but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion. There is a secret person undamaged in every individual. Men often make up in wrath what they want in reason. While I cannot be regarded as a pillar, I must be regarded as a buttress of the church, because I support it from outside. When we start deceiving ourselves into thinking not that we want something or need something, not that it is a pragmatic necessity for us to have it, but that it is a moral imperative that we have it. Then is when we join the fashionable madmen, and then is when the thin whine of hysteria is heard in the land, and then is when we are in bad trouble. Dedication to one's work in the world is the only possible sanctifica-tion. Religion in all its forms is dedication to Someone Else's work, not yours. Words will build no walls. - Plutarch He that is overcautious will accomplish little. Perfection is no more a requisite to art than to heroes. One must not hope to be more than one can be. Set a beggar on horseback, and he will ride a gallop. Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself. In Israel, in order to be a realist, you must believe in miracles. 
|
|
| The Quotes on this website are the property of their respective authors. All information has been reproduced on this website for informational and educational purposes only. Copyright © 2011 Famous Quotes and Authors.com. All Rights Reserved. |
