A.J. Russell Quotes

How can you hear your soul if everyone is talking?

Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed.

Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervade the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character.

It is right precious to behold The first long surf of climbing light Flood all the thirsty east with gold.

Each marriage starts with two built-in handicaps. It involves two imperfect people.

Antisemitism is just another form of racism. It's the same sickness, whether it's about Christians, about Islamophobia, which is horrible. It's all wrong. It's all the same.

There should be no distasteful tasks in one's life. If you just hate to do a thing, that hatred for it develops body-destructive toxins, and you become fatigued very soon.

If we think we are tired or ill, it is only because we have done something to unbalance the bodily conductivity of the universal electric current which motivates it.

Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.

Language is an archaeological vehicle... the language we speak is a whole palimpsest of human effort and history.

Do you reckon the Queen has ever pulled a blanket up so just her head's showing and gone 'Philip, look at me! I'm a stamp!'

Fiction helps me to reconnect with the true, deep weirdness inherent in everyday reality, in our dealings with one another, in just being alive.

If people have some sort of yearning, dissatisfaction or some itching irritability, then it might because they aren't looking in the right direction for a solution. They aren't looking within.

When the human race learns how to give and regive equally each will be enriched. He who withholds that which he should give to another impoverishes both himself and the other.

Sudden and slashing reforms are as perilous as sudden and slashing surgery.

Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

Real literature is something much better than a harmless instrument for getting through idle hours. The purpose of great literature is to help us to develop into full human beings.

It was sad and fierce all at once, alive with a lonely purity.

What holds most people back isn't the quality of their ideas, but their lack of faith in themselves.

Being an Indian means living with the land. And the only way we'll be able to do that is to gain our freedom.

To think of playing cricket for hard cash! Money and gentility would ruin any pastime under the sun.

It is always well to accept your own shortcomings with candor but to regard those of your friends with polite incredulity.

It is the satisfaction we derive from 'going there' in contrast to the satisfaction derived from 'getting there.' Recreation provides 'the pause that refreshes.' It recreates creators.

The snow had begun in the gloaming, and busily all the night had been heaping field and highway with a silence deep and white.

I'm confident in some of the things that I wear, regardless of what other people are wearing.

Music's the best thing we do as humans, isn't it? Music, I mean you flail your limbs, make you move in a way you don't understand. Or it can make you weep like a sailor's wife staring at a storm.

Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.

Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom.

Faith is the andtidote for fear

Human nature is so constructed that it gives affection most readily to those who seem least to demand it.

Give what you want to receive. If you want happiness, make others happy.

I thought I was promiscuous, but it turns out I was just thorough.

In an age when the fashion is to be in love with yourself, confessing to be in love with somebody else is an admission of unfaithfulness to one's beloved.

The true snob never rests; there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token, always more and more people to look down upon.

The future is better dealt with using assumptions than forecasts.

Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do that day, which must be done, whether you like it or not.

Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts.

Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death.

The question of common sense is always: 'what is it good for?' - a question which would abolish the rose and be answered triumphantly by the cabbage.

There's some *NSYNC and Backstreet Boys on my iPod. I listen to it if it comes up on shuffle.

I don't make demands. I don't tell you how it should be. I'll give you options, and it's up to you to select or throw 'em away. That should be the headline: If you're insecure, don't call.

Fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves.

I spent most of my 20s with these alligator wrestlers in the swamps of South Florida.

Beware the man of the single book

Measures of sterilization should, in my opinion, be very definitely confined to persons who are mentally defective

It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age; but, if so, it will be necessary first to slay the dragon that guards the door, and this dragon is religion.

Perhaps the best hope for the future of mankind is that ways will be found of increasing the scope and intensity of sympathy.

Attitude might be worth 80 percent of any athlete’s makeup.

Belief systems provide a programme which relieves the necessity of thought.

My older sister has entire kingdoms inside of her, and some of them are only accessible at certain seasons, in certain kinds of weather.