Jo Robinson Quotes

If the guys on the bench were as good as the guys you have out there, they'd be out there in first place.

Paper currency has hitherto been regarded with suspicion, as insecure.

It's always coldest before the warm.

But the egoist has no ideals, for the knowledge that his ideals are only his ideals, frees him from their domination. He acts for his own interest, not for the interest of ideals.

I didn't want to be told what to do. I don't want to water down my music to fit into their formats. I know what rock and roll is to me, but everything's turning into one big commercial.

I don't see why you reporters keep confusing Brooks (Robinson) and me. Can't you see that we wear different numbers.

We're very physical creatures, and we worry about how we look sometimes more than our spiritual selves

Capital' is not what capital is called, it is what its name is called.

The business of a bank is to lend money; which amounts, nowadays, to lending credit.

History ... may be regarded as an artificial extension and : broadening of our memories and may be used to overcome the natural bewilderment of all unfamiliar situations.

The Holy Scriptures are that divine instrument by which we are taught what to believe, concerning God, ourselves, and all things, and how to please God unto eternal life.

For our purposes as human beings, the mind is the center of everything.

It's been a dream to play in the NFL and hopefully after next year that becomes a reality, but I wouldn't pass up being here with my teammates and coaches for anything.

A sure sign of a crisis is the prevalence of cranks. It is characteristic of a crisis in theory that cranks get a hearing from the public which orthodoxy is failing to satisfy.

Music excites me, inspires me, fuels me! I listen to music every single day.

I want to feel that art is an utterance made in good faith by one human being to another.

I have been reading the Old Testament, a most bloodthirsty and perilous book for the young. Jehovah is beyond doubt the worst character in fiction.

Maybe this society, if anything, has become more patriarchal, and that has to be combated.

It’s education that’s meant to take us into this future that we can’t grasp.

Man, you're no smarter than me. You're just a fancier kind of stupid.

It seems to me people tend to forget that we are to love our enemies, not to satisfy some standard of righteousness but because God their Father loves them.

You can be creative in anything - in math, science, engineering, philosophy - as much as you can in music or in painting or in dance.

We have sold ourselves into a fast food model of education, and it's impoverishing our spirit and our energies as much as fast food is depleting our physical bodies.

We should conceive of ourselves not as rulers of Earth, but as highly powerful, conscious stewards: The Earth is given to us in trust, and we can screw it up or make it work well and sustainably.

The bees learn where they live by landmarks. If they're moved within their home range, they get confused.

Curiosity is the engine of achievement.

We are indeed drifting into the arena of the unwell.

Once you're a Motown artist, that's your stigmatism, and I was there from the very first day

I think we learn slowly as a group, but we learn. The ozone layer is still there.

Hickory dickory dock, I just want to be your clock. Just set me for a lifetime, and I'll wake you up every morning.

There is no other who experiences your thoughts or your feelings.

Income from property is not the reward of waiting, it is the reward of employing a good stockbroker.

I've been speaking at churches for years, as well as juvenile jails, rehabs and hospitals, and I always talk about my faith. That is a declaration of my relationship with God

It is impossible to add the stock of money to the flow of saving.

If there is any law governing the distribution of income between classes, it still remains to be discovered.

It is the rate of investment which governs the rate of saving, and not vice versa.

Rosa Luxemburg maintained that the capitalist system can keep up its rate of investment (and therefore its profits) only so long as it is expanding geographically.

But, as soon as speculators become an important influence in the market, their business is to speculate on each others behaviour.

I love hearing my music, I love hearing it by other people. I hope it will always be played.

I remember my first check that I got for a thousand dollars, and where I grew up, I never thought I'd have a thousand dollars at one time.

We're all going to be victims of temptation at several points in our lives.

The cold passion for truth hunts in no pack.

I'm not goin' anywhere, I'm right here!

I had no trouble communicating, the player's just didn't like what I had to say.

The fan is the one who suffers. He cheers a guy to a .350 season then watches that player sign with another team. When you destroy fan loyalties, you destroy everything.

Corruption never has been compulsory; when the cities lie at the monster's feet there are left the mountains.

Humanity is the start of the race; I say Humanity is the mould to break away from, the crust to break through, the coal to break into fire, The atom to be split.

Justice and mercy/ Are human dreams, they do not concern the birds nor the fish nor eternal God.

You have to have a short memory as a closer.

Only God is the same yesterday, today and tomorrow. The Church has always been changing.