A.J. Russell Quotes
I was brought up as a Republican. But when I realized that at the end of the day there wasn't much difference between a Democrat and Republican, I became a libertarian.
Not by force of arms are civilizations held together, but by subtle threads of moral and intellectual principle.
What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.
Anticipating that most poetry will be worse than carrying heavy luggage through O'Hare Airport, the public, to its loss, reads very little of it.
The bungalow had more to do with how Americans live today than any other building that has gone remotely by the name of architecture in our history.
Hospitality is the practice of God's welcome by reaching across difference to participate in God's actions bringing justice and healing to our world in crisis.
Rebel children, I urge you, fight the turgid slick of conformity with which they seek to smother your glory.
I have always been of the mind that in a democracy manners are the only effective weapons against the bowie-knife.
The flowers or weeds that spring up tomorrow are in the seeds we sow today. The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.
Twilight, a timid, fawn, went glimmering by, and Night, the dark-blue hunter, followed fast.
I'm the munter of my friends. I've got wonky teeth and a lazy eye. My friend Rob is disgusted I'm a heart-throb.
She's 80 my nan, what do you want for your birthday? "SHREDDER!! GET ME A SHREDDER!!", what do you want a shredder for? "IDENTITY THEFT!!".
Common sense, the half-truths of a deceitful society, is honored as the honest truths of a frank world.
Feelings of worth come when a woman follows the example of the Master. Her sense of infinite worth comes from her own Christlike yearning to reach out with love, as He does.
It is not what the man of science believes that distinguishes him, but how and why he believes it. His beliefs are tentative, not dogmatic; they are based on evidence, not on authority or intuition.
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If you have no brothers and sisters it defines you for life; even when you're thirty you refer to yourself as an only child.
I would hardly change the sorrowful words of the poets for their glad ones. Tears dampen the strings of the lyre, but they grow the tensor for it, and ring even the clearer and more ravishingly.
Omnicompetence,' the ability to obtain whatever one wants or needs, is an unattainable but continuously approachable ideal for all mankind - past, present, and future.
True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.
What is new in our time is the increased power of the authorities to enforce their prejudices.
Most managers receive much more data (if not information) than they can possibly absorb even if they spend all of their time trying to do so. Hence they already suffer from an information overload.
One of the main causes of trouble in the world is dogmatic and fanatical belief in some doctrine for which there is no adequate evidence
The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.
I FIND IT SO DIFFICULT NOT TO HATE, WHEN I DO NOT HATE I FEEL WE FEW ARE SO LONELY IN THE WORLD
Every action in Nature is voided as it occurs, is repeated as it is voided, and is recorded as it is repeated.
A garden really lives only insofar as it is an expression of faith, the embodiment of a hope and a song of praise.
If I were a medical man, I should prescribe a holiday to any patient who considered his work important.
Talent is that which is in a man's power; genius is that in whose power a man is.
But when I don't smoke I scarcely feel as if I'm living. I don't feel as if I'm living unless I'm killing myself.