J.M. August Quotes

One need not be a prophet to be aware of impending dangers. An accidental combination of experience and interest will often reveal events to one man under aspects which few yet see.

... that order generated without design can far outstrip plans men consciously contrive

Humiliating to human pride as it may be, we must recognize that the advance and even the preservation of civilization are dependent upon a maximum of opportunity for accidents to happen.

If we can reduce the risk of friction likely to lead to war, this is probably all we can reasonably hope to achieve.

Hayek was making us think of the productive process as a process in time, inputs coming before outputs.

I really love fan art, which I get sent a lot of. I really, really get a lot of. I get a kick out of it.

Children accept many things adults will not accept, since the world of a child is a constant revelation without any need for knowledge of cause and effect.

The further from one another, the nearer one can be.

It is terribly hard to be married, harder than anything. I think one has to be an angel.

When aristocrats pretend they're common people -- they get common!

Land [is] the only thing God ain't making no more of.

We did not realise how fragile our civilisation was.

Personally I prefer a liberal dictator to democratic government lacking liberalism.

We certainly do not regard it as right that the citizens of a large country should dominate those of a small adjoining country merely because they are more numerous.

Least of all shall we preserve democracy or foster its growth if all the power and most of the important decisions rest with an organization far too big for the common man to survey or comprehend.

Gunn, like me, has a James Bond obsession. He would love to be James Bond, and it's a great role that I would love to be, someday.

Time wounds all heals.

Our mind has its own ideal time, which is no other but the consciousness of the progressive development of our beings.

Though children can accept adults as adults, adults can never accept children as anything but adults too.

Listen to me: die after me, all right? I don't care what else you do, where you go, how you screw up your life, just... survive. Outlive me, please.

Human beings, like plans, prove fallible in the presence of those ingredients that are missing in maneuvers - danger, death, and live ammunition.

Why is it so painful to watch a person sink? Because there is something unnatural in it, for nature demands personal progress, evolution, and every backward step means wasted energy.

It is rather a problem of how to secure the best use of resources known to any of the members of society, for ends whose relative importance only those individuals know.

Any programming language is at its best before it is implemented and used. Anything is possible, anything can happen. On a flimsy ground of reality, imagination spins marvelous patterns.

The reason why we find so many dark places in the Bible is, for the most part, because there are so many dark places in our hearts.

The thinker requires exactly the same light as the painter, clear, without direct sunshine, or blinding reflection, and, where possible, from above.

If you want to support a writer, produce the first five plays he writes.

All you need is the blues. To me, the blues is the book, it's the bible, it's everything.

I've never seen 'Seinfeld', never seen 'The Cosby Show'; I just don't watch it. I saw half of 'Oprah' one time. I'd rather read.

I done learned my mistake and learned to do what's right by it. You still trying to get something for nothing. Life don't owe you nothing. You owe it to yourself. - Troy -

When the sins of our fathers visit us We do not have to play host. We can banish them with forgiveness As God, in his His Largeness and Laws.

Suffice it to say, I'm not poor.

For me, the original play becomes an historical document: This is where I was when I wrote it, and I have to move on now to something else.

As soon as white folks say a play's good, the theater is jammed with blacks and whites.

You got to take the crookeds with the straights. That's what Papa used to say.

Friendship is the holiest of gifts; God can bestow nothing more sacred upon us! It enhances every joy, mitigates every pain. Everyone can have a friend, Who himself knows how to be a friend.

The Germans would appear as the disturbers of peace, as they already do to some people, merely because they were the first to take the path along which all the others were ultimately to follow.

Should our moral beliefs really prove to be dependent on factual assumptions shown to be incorrect, it would be hardly moral to defend them by refusing to acknowledge the facts.

Whatever men live for, today most live only because of the market order.

Our moral traditions developed concurrently with our reason, not as its product.

The progress of the natural sciences in modern times has of course so much exceeded all expectations that any suggestion that there may be some limits to it is bound to arouse suspicion.

We have indeed at the moment little cause for pride: as a profession we have made a mess of things.

Perhaps even more than elsewhere current notions of what is desirable and practicable are here still of a kind which may well produce the opposite of what they promise.

In many regards, the West is dependent on Russia as a partner. Showing consideration for Russian sensitivities when it comes to old, historical bonds is a reasonable, well-founded approach.

Frankenweenie is also about mortality, but at a very different stage. It's losing a parent versus losing a dog. I don't run away from the tears of that, which I think is what makes it feel universal.

With Corpse Bride, I saw a lot more of it during the process because we were changing things a lot. When I came onto Corpse Bride, it wasn't a musical.

I knew that Weird Girl was going to be kind of amazing. The secret truth of Weird Girl is that I put her in there originally because I needed some way to set the boys' names.

I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect

ingenuity was apparently given man in order that he may supply himself in crises with shapes and sounds with which to guard himself from truth.

The devil can be a clown of prizes in moments like these. Moments of knowing you’ve ventured too far down the wrong path and all you can do is accept more prizes ...