P.J. Mann Quotes

For the sake of goodness and love, man shall let death have no sovereignty over his thoughts.

Has the world ever been changed by anything save the thought and its magic vehicle the Word?

…What our age needs, what it demands, what it will create for itself, is—terror.

He probably was mediocre after all, though in a very honorable sense of that word.

He thought what a fine thing it was that people made music all over the world, even in the strangest settings – probably even on polar expeditions.

Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen

Character is what God and the angels know of us reputation is what men and women think of us.

He who never sacrificed a present to a future good or a personal to a general one can speak of happiness only as the blind speak of color.

Lost yesterday somewhere between sunrise and sunset two golden hours each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever.

Resolve to edge in a little reading every day if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day it will make itself felt at the end of the year.

We put things in order - God does the rest. Lay an iron bar east and west it is not magnetized. Lay it north and south and it is.

To pity distress is but human to relieve it is Godlike.

The object of punishment is prevention from evil it never can be made impulsive to good.

Virtue is an angel but she is a blind one and must ask of Knowledge to show her the pathway that leads to her goal.

The teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.

Lost - yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered, for they are gone forever.

To pity distress is but human to relieve it is Godlike.

A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.

Being totally inclusive is essential for the outcome to possess any true value

It is not about the glory of the human form more about being human.

There is a chest inside my heart, where a magical world is hidden. With my novels, I hand to you the key to that world.

Part of the artist's job is to make the commonplace singular, to project a different interpretation onto the conventional.

Don’t fear the future or regret the past but celebrate the present.

Every human is unique every spirit is engaging.

Is not the pastness of the past the more profound, the more legendary, the more immediately it falls before the present ?

Deep is the well of the past. Should we not call it bottomless?

Never scheme with a conniving dragon!

Prayers and love are learned in the hour when prayer has become impossible and your heart has turned to stone.

Passionate—that means to live for the sake of living. But one knows that you all live for sake of experience. Passion, that is self-forgetfulness. But what you all want is self-enrichment.

Travelers prove their lack of education if they make fun of the customs and values of their hosts, and the qualities that do a person honour are many and varied.

At thirty a man steps out of the darkness and wasteland of preparation into active life it is the time to show oneself, the time of fulfillment.

Pardon me Mam, I'm new in town, could you please show me the way to your house?

I realize parenting is hard and boring at times and a four-hour break would be super, but this is the job we signed up for. Some days it sucks, but most days it's great.

It's every American's duty to support his government but not necessarily in the style to which it has become accustomed.

I know I am talking nonsense, but I’d rather go rambling on, and partly expressing something I find it difficult to express, than to keep on transmitting faultless platitudes.

He (Newt Gingrich as a freshman congressman) was both passionate about his goals and coldly analytical in his means.

Discussions should always be held just before going to bed, your rear protected by sleep. How painful, after an intellectual conversation, to have to go about with your mind so stirred up.

Completing the circle is both philosophical and tactical - there is a growing sense of mastery that comes with practice, diligence, and experience.

The sweet spot is where duty and delight converge.

Order and simplification are the first steps towards mastery of a subject

Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.

He felt the quicksand of failure sucking at his feet, threatening to bury him, to drown him.Jeana E. Mann. Intoxicated (Kindle Location 2125).

If you pull a rope and some duct tape out of those saddlebags, I’m going to freak.Jeana E. Mann. Intoxicated (Kindle Locations 746-747).

For the sake of goodness and love, man shall grant death no dominion over his thoughts.

Perfectionism, of course, was something which even as a young man he had come to see as the innermost essence of talent.

There are so many different kinds of stupidity, and cleverness is one of the worst.

What they, in their innocence, cannot comprehend is that a properly constituted, healthy, decent man never writes, acts, or composes.

But I can't confront the doubts I have.I can't admit that maybe the past was bad, and so, for the sake of momentumI'm condemning the future to deathso it can match the past.

There comes a time when you swim or sink so I jumped in the drink 'cause I couldn't make myself clear. Maybe I wrote in invisible ink, oh I've tried to think how I could've made it appear.

Say you were split, you were split in fragments and none of the pieces would talk to you. Wouldn't you want to be who you had been? Well, maybe I'd want that too.