Robert M Quotes
Everything that ever walked or crawled on the face of the earth, swum the depths of the ocean or soared through the skies left its imprint here
Congress is best viewed from a distance - the farther the better - because up close, it is truly ugly.
There will be boots on the ground if there's to be any hope of success in the strategy.
And so the greatest of American triumphs... became a peculiarly joyless victory. We had won the Cold War, but there would be no parades.
The reality is, the United States has global interests. Our defense budget is about the same as the defense budgets or military budgets of every other country in the world put together.
Build your world around me, and promise to never let me go, and if ever their comes a time it may seem crowded, may we expand so love may grow.
A poem is but a thought, a mere memory caught at play. From hand onto paper, bleeding thoughts emerge.
Nature will not forgive those who fail to fulfill the law of their being. The law of human beings is wisdom and goodness, not unlimited acquisition.
Education can be dangerous. It is very difficult to make it not dangerous. In fact, it is almost impossible.
The policy of the repression of ideas cannot work and never has worked. The alternative to it is the long difficult road of education. To this the American people have committed.
The most distressing aspect of the world into which you are going is its indifference to the basic issues, which now, as always, are moral issues.
It has been said that we have not had the three R's in America, we had the six R's; remedial readin', remedial 'ritin' and remedial 'rithmetic.
It is characteristic of all movements and crusades that the psychopathic element rises to the top.
What a person wills and not what they know determines their worth or unworth, power or impotence, happiness or unhappiness.
It is in solitude that the works of hand, heart and mind are always conceived, and in solitude that individuality must be affirmed.
No sane man can afford to dispense with debilitating pleasures; no ascetic can be considered reliably sane.
These are the people who do studies that your carry-out Chinese meals are saturated in fat. I'd just like to meet them! I mean, what do they do for pleasure?
Communism and socialism, programs for intellectual control over society ... fascism, a program for the social control of intellect.
every answer one finds leads to ten more questions. The more we learn the less we know.
The solutions all are simple - after you have arrived at them. But they're simple only when you know already what they are.
The Buddha takes no position on gods, he suggests they may exist or they may not, but either way you can live a moral life.
Cultivate peace of mind which does not separate one's self from one's surroundings. When that is done successfully, then everything else follows naturally.
The only zen thoughts you can find on a mountain summit are those you brought yourself.
... the laws of physics and of logic ... the number system ... the principle of algebraic substitution. These are ghosts. We just believe in them so thoroughly they seem real.
Caring about what you are doing is considered either unimportant or taken for granted.
What is seen now so much more clearly is that although the names keep changing and the bodies keep changing, the larger pattern that holds us all together goes on and on.
Physical distance between people has nothing to do with loneliness. It's psychic distance.
Talk about rationality can get very confusing unless the things with which rationality deals are also included.
When a shepherd goes to kill a wolf, and takes his dog to see the sport, he should take care to avoid mistakes. The dog has certain relationships to the wolf the shepherd may have forgotten.
"You ask me how I know he lives?" asks the revival chorus. "He lives within my heart." Exactly! A figment.
By itself, 1 Corinthians 15 just wouldn't mean much. He wants the appearances of 1 Corinthians 15:3-11 to be read as if they had in parentheses after them 'See Luke 24; Matthew 28; John 21.'
Today's Politically Correct "historical Jesuses" are no different, being mere clones of the scholars who design them.
"Heresy," by the way, simply means "choice." It came to mean "thoughtcrime," implying it was blasphemy to presume to choose your own belief instead of swallowing what the bishops spoonfed you.
