A.J. Russell Quotes

If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give.

Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.

The nurse of full-grown souls is solitude.

When it comes to cars, only two varieties of people are possible - cowards and fools.

Eternal principles that govern happiness apply equally to all.

A sneer is the weapon of the weak.

What's more important than who's going to be the first black manager is who's going to be the first black sports editor of the New York Times.

It is the rooted instinct in men to admire what is better and more beautiful than themselves.

That's our charge as ancestors of unborn generations: to once again become free.

In the part of this universe that we know there is great injustice, and often the good suffer, and often the wicked prosper, and one hardly knows which of those is the more annoying.

True love is but a humble, low born thing, And hath its food served up in earthenware; It is a thing to walk with, hand in hand, Through the every-dayness of this workday world.

He who seeks possessions for himself will never find them-until he begins to give of the abundance of possessions which he already has.

And that is what radio-activity is, a quick return to the state of rest which underlies the spiritual or invisible universe.

It would now be technically possible to unify the world, abolish war and poverty altogether, if men desired their own happiness more than the misery of their enemies.

The better part of every man's education is that which he gives himself.

Time is, after all, the greatest of poets; and the sons of Memory stand a better chance of being the heirs of Fame.

You cannot believe the mayhem!

With my dad passing away, he's always watching me-a big smile on his face, watching every snap on the 50-yard line.

Many religious confessions share common values. They teach that we should do unto others as we would have them do unto us.

Meg Ryan is a beautiful and courageous woman. I grieve the loss of her companionship, but I haven't lost her friendship. We still phone each other for a good chat.

The pressure of public opinion is like the pressure of the atmosphere; you can't see it - but all the same, it is sixteen pounds to the square inch.

Endurance is the crowning quality.

A lady is nothing very specific. One man's lady is another man's woman; sometimes, one man's lady is another man's wife. Definitions overlap but they almost never coincide.

I do not recognize these as defeats. They are but interesting experiences of life. They are valuable stepping stones to success.

Life is a sheet of paper white / Whereon each one of us may write / His word or two, and then comes night.

My first year of pro ball I played in the Northwest league and made the all-star team, and the next year I played I led the team in hitting and was third or fifth in the league.

You can't understand it until you experience the simple joy of the first time your son points at a seagull and says 'Duck!'

While tenderness of feeling and susceptibility to generous emotions are accidents of temperament, goodness is an achievement of the will and a quality of the life.

Don't knock the ball in the stands, keep it in your hands!

We have heeded no wisdom offering guidance. Only by learning to love one another can our world be saved. Only love can conquer all.

A food truce, the picnic suspension of oedipal feeling that permits the generations to love each other at family reunions.

Locke contended that government originates out of the necessity for protecting property.

We overreached our decision power. Sometimes our decisions have to fit the reality of the outside world.

[Models] have the thinnest thighs, the shiniest hair and the coolest clothes, and they're the most physically insecure women probably on the planet.

I'm a reasonable guy, but I've just experienced some very unreasonable things.

I think if you're open-minded, the road will take you where it takes you. If you're closed, you might not get to go where the road is heading.

What is best in mathematics deserves not merely to be learnt as a task, but to assimilated as a part of daily thought, and brought again and again before the mind with ever-renewed encouragement.

You can experience true delight on the Sabbath from family history work...Finding family members...can bring immense joy.

With the introduction of agriculture mankind entered upon a long period of meanness, misery, and madness, from which they are only now being freed by the beneficent operation of the machine.

Your assignment of confidence limits each of the evidences, which allows for building a cumulative case for God's existence.

My gran'ther's rule was safer 'n 't is to crow: Don't never prophesy - onless ye know.

There is an element of the busybody in our conception of virtue: unless a man makes himself a nuisance to a great many people, we do not think he can be an exceptionally good man.

You know why there are so many whitefish in the Yellowstone River? Because the Fish and Game people have never done anything to help them.

Freedom needs all her poets; it is they Who give her aspirations wings, And to the wiser law of music sway Her wild imaginings.

Seeing is an experience. People, not their eyes, see. There is more to seeing than meets the eyeball.

I'm destined to be attracted to those I cannot defeat.

I start with the joke line and write backward.

The man who has fed the chicken every day throughout its life at last wrings its neck instead, showing that more refined views as to the uniformity of nature would have been useful to the chicken.

Individualism is a denial that life has any meaning except the gratification of the ego; in politics it must end in anarchy. It is not possible for one man to be both Christian and Individualist.

The singularity has nothing to do with consciousness.