E. G. Marshall Quotes
The poet, the artist, the sleuth, whoever sharpens our perception tends to antisocial; rarely 'well adjusted,' he cannot go along with currents and trends.
I think the museum should be an arena in which ideals can hash it out, fight it out, tooth and nail, for attention.
The proof of how real Jesus knew hell to be is that He came to earth to save us from it.
Success is rarely the result of one swell swoop, but more often the culmination of many, many small victories.
The successor to politics will be propaganda. Propaganda, not in the sense of a message or ideology, but as the impact of the whole technology of the times.
Once we recognize our need for Jesus, then the building of our faith begins. It is a daily, moment-by-moment life of absolute dependence upon Him for everything
When a general complains of the morale of his troops, the time has come to look at his own.
The federal government is acknowledged by all to be one of enumerated powers. The principle, that it can exercise only the powers granted to it . . . is now universally admitted.
Nobody who bought a drill actually wanted a drill. They wanted a hole. Therefore, if you want to sell drills, you should advertise information about making holes – NOT information about drills!
One of the effects of living with electric information is that we live habitually in a state of information overload. There's always more than you can cope with.
The price of every thing rises and falls from time to time and place to place; and with every such change the purchasing power of money changes so far as that thing goes.
Today's Constitution is a realistic document of freedom only because of several corrective amendments. Those amendments speak to a sense of decency and fairness that I and other Blacks cherish.
Historians and archaeologists will one day discover that the ads of our time are the richest and most faithful reflections that any society ever made of its entire range of activities.
Anyone who tries to make a distinction between education and entertainment doesn't know the first thing about either.
The most reckless and treacherous of all theorists is he who professes to let facts and figures speak for themselves.
Regardless of our many differences, we all have the same needs. What differs is the strategy for fulfilling these needs.
There's a real sweet spot between challenge and hope - leaders make pathways that keep both firmly in view.
God hasn't given up on you. He can still do great things for you, in you, and through you. God is ready and waiting and able. What about you, and me?
Hope is the belief in the probability of the possible rather than the necessity of the probable.
Morale is the state of mind. It is steadfastness and courage and hope. It is confidence and zeal and loyalty. It is élan, esprit de corps and determination.
God insists that we ask, not because He needs to know our situation, but because we need the spiritual discipline of asking.
The power to tax involves the power to destroy;...the power to destroy may defeat and render useless the power to create.
People will do something—including changing their behavior—only if it can be demonstrated that doing so is in their own best interests as defined by their own values.
The best way that we can begin to produce positive change is to make peace with what is in ourselves and others, and then work to move forward and make life even better.
Perhaps she was both child and woman, darkness and light, past and present, life and death - all the opposites contained and reconciled in her.
There's no better satisfaction than writing. I feel that writing is the best and everything else comes with it
What we call art would seem to be specialist artifacts for enhancing human perception.
In a free government almost all other rights would become worthless if the government possessed power over the private fortune of every citizen.
The gallantry and aggressive fighting spirit of the Russian soldiers command the American army's admiration.
Ending racial discrimination in jury selection can be accomplished only by eliminating peremptory challenges entirely.
The law does not expect a man to be prepared to defend every act of his life which may be suddenly and without notice alleged against him.
Teach us, O Lord, the disciplines of patience, for to wait is often harder than to work.
If the First Amendment means anything, it means that a state has no business telling a man, sitting alone in his house, what books he may read or what films he may watch.
So once I shut down my privilege of disliking anyone I choose and holding myself aloof if I could manage it, greater understanding, growing compassion came to me.
Some of what I wrote bordered on blasphemy....If there was a God, He would have to be truth. And in that case, candor--however impertinent--would be more pleasing to Him than posturing.
Nature's action is complex: and nothing is gained in the long run by pretending that it is simple, and trying to describe it in a series of elementary propositions.
Anger is a signal that you're distracted by judgmental or punitive thinking, and that some precious need of yours is being ignored.
The Constitution is colorblind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens.