E.S. Russell Quotes

I usually decide what to wear in the morning, but sometimes, I'll have a favorite coat or sweater or shoes, and I'll wear them everyday for a week!

I mean, that's a sad day in America when you're recalled because you did what you said you were going to do, and the public voted you in to do that.

You can always tell folks from nonfolks. Folks like to feel good, like to smile for the camera when there's a big photo opportunity for a really good cause.

Poetry is something to make us wiser and better, by continually revealing those types of beauty and truth, which God has set in all men's souls.

Poetry is so vital to us until school spoils it.

I think that diversity is key for the next American entrepreneurs. They want to be a part of this society where there is so much diversity they have to have people from all the experiences.

I cannot think of a greater blessing than to die in one's own bed, without warning or discomfort, on the last page of a new book that we most wanted to read.

There are very few things you can really do [to promote] healthy aging ... and none of these things include an insurance system or a legal system. All those things do is change who pays.

There's two theories to arguing with a woman. Neither one works. Will Rogers The reason that there are so few women comics is that so few women can bear being laughed at.

The surface of American life looks smooth, prosperous, peaceful. But underneath, fault-line shifts in family and work life have led us into what some have called 'advanced insecurity.

Children born of married parents in America face a higher risk of seeing them break up than children born of unmarried parents in Sweden.

Compared with the employed, the jobless are less likely to vote, volunteer, see friends and talk to family. Even on weekends, the jobless spend more time alone than those with jobs.

To televisionize any serious problem, the program directors face the task of making the message 'go down smooth' until the audience is delivered to the commercial.

What science cannot discover, mankind cannot know.

Indemnity for the past and security for the future.

How much good it would do if one could exterminate the human race.

All religions are both harmful and untrue.

The very best proof that something can be done is that someone has already done it.

I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive.

The Ten Commandments should be headed like an examination paper: No more than six to be attempted.

Unhappy business men, I am convinced, would increase their happiness more by walking six miles every day than by any conceivable change of philosophy.

No satisfaction based upon self-deception is solid.

Choose your parents wisely.

The sentiments of an adult are compounded of a kernel of instinct surrounded by a vast husk of education.

A man's acts are partly determined by spontaneous impulse, partly by the conscious and unconscious effects of the various groups to which he belongs.

America... where law and custom alike are based upon the dreams of spinsters...

Love, children, and work, are the great sources of fertilizing contact between the individual and the rest of the world.

There may be no good reasons for very many opinions that are held with passion.

You could live without the opera singer, but not without the services of the baker. On this ground you might say that the baker performs a greater service; but no lover of music would agree.

What men really want is not knowledge but certainty.

Mankind has become so much one family that we cannot insure our own prosperity except by insuring that of everyone else.

I know a parson who frightened his congregation terribly by telling them the second coming was very imminent indeed, but they were much consoled when they found he was planting trees in his garden.

If the Church is not now as bad as the Soviet Government, that is due to the influence of those who attacked the Church

Science seems to be at war with itself.... Naive realism leads to physics, and physics, if true, shows naive realism to be false. Therefore naive realism, if true, is false; therefore it is false.

Affection cannot be created; it can only be liberated.

Upon hearing via Littlewood an exposition on the theory of relativity: To think I have spent my life on absolute muck.

I often long to . . . give up my life to love of my neighbour. This is really a temptation.

To the primitive mind, everything is either friendly or hostile; but experience has shown that friendliness and hostility are not the conceptions by which the world is to be understood.

The sea, the stars, the night wind in waste places, mean more to me than even the human beings I love best.

Mathematics is only the art of saying the same thing in different words.

Most political leaders acquire their position by causing large numbers of people to believe that these leaders are actuated by altruistic desires

Everybody can do something toward creating in his own environment kindly feelings rather than anger, reasonableness rather than hysteria, happiness rather than misery.

Stupidity and unconscious bias often work more damage than venality.

This, however, is a passing nightmare; in time the earth will become again incapable of supporting life, and peace will return.

The resistance to a new idea increases by the square of its importance.

Writing can be either readable or precise, but not at the same time.

Into every tidy scheme for arranging the pattern of human life, it is necessary to inject a certain dose of anarchism.

If one lived for ever the joys of life would inevitably in the end lose their savour. As it is, they remain perennially fresh.

I did not know I loved you until I heard myself telling so, for one instance I thought, "Good God, what have I said?" and then I knew it was true.

When all experts agree, you need to watch out.