A.J. Russell Quotes
Here come the hum the golden bees Underneath full blossomed trees, At once with glowing fruit and flowers crowned.
I am compelled to fear that science will be used to promote the power of dominant groups rather than to make men happy.
The qualities most needed are charity and tolerance, not some form of fanatical faith such as is offered to us by the various rampant isms
I never actually expected success, but it doesn't surprise me when it comes because I know how much work I put into what I do.
Consciousness exists beyond your head, between our heads, and it can manifest harmony.
In England, we have such good manners that if someone says something impolite, the police will get involved.
Pride of origin, whether high or low, springs from the same principle in human nature; one is but the positive, the other the negative, pole of a single weakness.
Who gives himself with his alms feeds three, himself, his hungering neighbor and me.
One learns more metaphysics from a single temptation than from all the philosophers.
Ef you want peace, the thing you've gut to du Is jes' to show you're up to fightin', tu.
Good heavens, of what un costly material is our earthly happiness composed... if we only knew it. What incomes have we not had from a flower, and how unfailing are the dividends of the seasons.
It is not without reason that fame is awarded only after death. The cloud-dust of notoriety which follows and envelops the men who drive with the wind bewilders contemporary judgment.
God is not dumb, that he should speak no more; If thou hast wanderings in the wilderness And find'st not Sinai, 'tis thy soul is poor.
Russel Westbrook is a guy that impacts the game maybe like no other player in this league.
O thou, whose days are yet all spring, Faith, blighted once, is past retrieving; Experience is a dumb, dead thing; The victory's in believing.
No sincere desire of doing good need make an enemy of a single human being; that philanthropy has surely a flaw in it which cannot sympathize with the oppressor equally as with the oppressed.
Ah, to think how thin the veil that lies Between the pain of hell and Paradise.
It is not a great Xerxes army of words, but a compact Greek ten thousand that march safely down to posterity.
If the devil take a less hateful shape to us than to our fathers, he is as busy with us as with them.
Reason, alas, does not remove mountains. It only tries to walk around them, and see what is on the other side.
Most long lives resemble those threads of gossamer, the nearest approach to nothing unmeaningly prolonged, scarce visible pathways of some worm from his cradle to his grave.
Measures of self-government and a school council, especially for such young children, were a great innovation.
In ancient shadows and twilightsWhere childhood had strayed,The world's great sorrows were bornAnd its heroes were made.In the lost boyhood of JudasChrist was betrayed.
Not but wut abstract war is horrid, I sign to thet with all my heart, But civilysation doos git forrid Sometimes, upon a powder-cart.
In the second century A.D. the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius may have best defined pantheism when he wrote, “Everything is interwoven, and the web is holy.
Do I think Cate Blanchett is the most spectacular creature that ever walked the planet? Yes, I do.
I really feel sorry for people who are, who divide their whole life up into 'things that I like' and 'things that I must do.' You're only here for a short time, mate. Learn to like it.
It is singular how impatient men are with overpraise of others, how patient of overpraise of themselves; and yet the one does them no injury, while the other may be their ruin.
I love having debates with people when they are debates but some people, you just can't. Some people shouldn't be given the oxygen.
Faith in God, faith in man, faith in work: this is the short formula in which we may sum up the teachings of the founders of New England,--a creed ample enough for this life and the next.
Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.
I used to binge-eat and make myself throw up. I was a fat kid. Obviously I didn't quite master the bulimia.
Money is power, money is force, money will do good as harm. In the hands of good men and women it could accomplish, and it has accomplished, good.
As far as we can look back into history, the downfall of any nation can be traced from the moment that nation became timid about spending its best blood.
There is nothing that sharpens a man's senses so acutely as to know that bitter and determined enemies are in pursuit of him night and day.
Even in the most purely logical realms, it is insight that first arrives at what is new.