A.J. Russell Quotes

Are you always this stupid or are you making a special effort today?

The dandelions and buttercups gild all the lawn: the drowsy bee stumbles among the clover tops, and summer sweetens all to me.

It seems to me a fundamental dishonesty, and a fundamental treachery to intellectual integrity to hold a belief because you think it's useful and not because you think it's true.

Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true.

New occasions teach new duties.

The experience of overcoming fear is extraordinarily delightful.

Our seasons have no fixed returns, Without our will they come and go; At noon our sudden summer burns, Ere sunset all is snow.

I'm all for ERA. I want to see women equal to men - not so damn superior like they've been.

All motion is curved and all curvature is spiral.

Those of you who have fallen prey to any kind of addiction, there is hope because God loves all of His children

A solved problem creates two new problems, and the best prescription for happy living is not to solve any more problems.

We know very little, and yet it is astonishing that we know so much, and still more astonishing that so little knowledge can give us so much power.

Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.

The thing about hip-hop is that it's from the underground, ideas from the underbelly, from people who have mostly been locked out, who have not been recognized.

A clear and focused mind will last a lifetime. Getting your mind in shape is nothing less than the key to sustainable success in the world.

One of the painful things about our time is that those who feel certainty are stupid, and those with any imagination and understanding are filled with doubt and indecision.

Unless you assume a God, the question of life's purpose is meaningless.

If you don't break a hole through the brick wall, don't just start digging a new hole. Keep going until you break through that wall.

I've always thought it was arrogant to write about yourself, particularly when you're still alive.

When a man has done all he can do, still there is a mighty, mysterious agency over which he needs influence to secure success. The one way he can reach it is by prayer.

It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this.

Be encouraged. Stay on your hustle. You can't fail until u quit.

Time makes ancient good uncouth.

It seems to be a law in American life that whatever enriches us anywhere except in the wallet inevitably becomes uneconomic.

The time is ripe, and rotten-ripe, for change... [Truth's] mirror is turned forward, to reflect The promise of the future, not the past.

You have to gather your energy together...conserving it and insulating it from dissipation in every direction other than that of your purpose.

The healing principle is within man himself. Man's power to heal himself, or extend his healing power to others, is measured by his awareness of God in him.

Religion is a Snare and a Racket.

Rationalization is one of the real obstacles to obedience.

The only Revolution that can really change the world is the one in your own consciousness, and mine has already begun.

You can't enjoy light verse with a heavy heart.

Democracy is like a raft: It won't sink, but you will always have your feet wet.

They climbed the ladder of learning only to find it leaning against the wrong wall.

My style is definitely not ladylike - frills and bows kinda scare me - but I like the military look because I love that olive green khaki color.

Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit.

New occasions teach new duties, time makes ancient good uncouth; They must upward still and onward, who would keep abreast of truth.

Are you recycling? Are you!? You just killed a polar bear! YOU!

Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it.

After all, when you come right down to it, how many people speak the same language even when they speak the same language?

Don't try to make children grow up to be like you, or they may do it.

Spending that many hours in the saddle gave a man plenty of time to think. That's why so many cowboys fancied themselves Philosophers.

Our social and economic systems are so devoid of humanity and love.

If I see one side of somebody, I want to see the other side.

Tennis is an addiction that once it has truly hooked a man will not let him go.

The greater your real strength and power, the quieter it will be exercised.

To plant trees is to give body and life to one's dreams of a better world.

Many of us spend our lives searching for success when it is usually so close that we can reach out and touch it.

I feel better in my mind when I work out. It makes everything better.

These days I am a teetotal, mean-spirited, right-wing, narrow-minded, conservative Christian bigot, but not a racist.

Hip-hop is a voice for voiceless poor people.