S. Gregory Quotes

All experience is subjective.

After mastery comes artistry and not before.

Creative thought must always contain a random component.

That rule must be absolutely observed which states that, except for the most serious reasons and with the Apostolic See, no innovations are to be introduced into the holy rites of the liturgy.

Science probes; it does not prove.

The world is run by one million evil men, ten million stupid men, and a hundred million cowards.

Those who lack all idea that it is possible to be wrong can learn nothing except know-how.

One of the difficulties in understanding the brain is that it is like nothing so much as a lump of porridge.

Everything will be difficult, if there's no dream

I used to get letters saying, 'I didn't know black children and white children were the same.'

When I went south in the 1960s, I knew I could die. If I went down there and did what I did up in Chicago and made all of those hatin' white folks laugh, then I would have been defeated.

Cowardece is often just another name for being taken by surprise.

The map is not the territory (coined by Alfred Korzybski), and the name is not the thing named.

So why would I want to call myself a conservative after the way them white racist thugs have used that word to hide behind? They call themselves new Republicans.

It is to the Riddle of the Sphinx that I have devoted fifty years of professional life as an anthropologist.

Being white is a job in America. You take that away, you better get the soldiers out.

Whatsoever one would understand what he hears must hasten to put into practice what he has heard.

I won't say I'm out of condition now - but I even puff going downstairs.

And we love to dance, especially that new one called the Civil War Twist. The Northern part of you stands still while the Southern part tries to secede.

The way most people fail is in not keeping up the heart.

We live on because we can love, and we love because we can forgive.

Always the bridesmaid , never the bride." Always the godfather, never the god".

it's just that I see love as odd as wearing shoes-- I never wanted to marry a girl who was like my mother And Ingrid Bergman was always impossible

I think of New York City lost in stars forgotten as a blue haired pet of childhood love Tonight the night is full.

The body apologizes to the soul for its errors, and the soul asks forgiveness for squatting in the body without invitation.

Words have weight, something once said cannot be unsaid. Meaning is like a stone dropped into a pool; the ripples will spread and you cannot know what back they wash against.

Well time has a way of throwing it all in your face. The past, she is haunted, the future is laced.

Churches and trains they all look the same to me now they shoot you some place while we ache to come home somehow.

Fortune's wheel takes you very high and then throws you very low, and there is nothing you can do but face the turn of it with courage.

I tell people, 'If you want to send a message to the White House, call my house.

It is, I claim, nonsense to say that it does not matter which individual man acted as the nucleus for the change. It is precisely this that makes history unpredictable into the future.

The unrestrained freedom of thinking and of openly making known one's thoughts is not inherent in the rights of citizens and is by no means worthy of favor and support.

The struggle between centralization and decentralization is at the core of American history.

Every trick is an old one, but with a change of players, a change of dress, it comes out as new as before.

The Light of Christ illumines all.

Luck is opportunity meeting up with preparation. So you must prepare yourself to be lucky.

For if we are bidden to honor carnal fathers and mothers, how much more the spiritual? ... If this virtue of charity has been overlooked, a man will lose any fruit of salvation in any good he may do.

I had never seen a woman in such despair before. It was worse than death, it was a constant longing for death and a constant rejection of life. She lived like darkness in her own day.

When I go through the airport and see white women walking through the airport barefooted, like athlete's feet don't exist, there's something wrong.

People who claim that they're evil are usually no worse than the rest of us... It's people who claim that they're good, or any way better than the rest of us, that you have to be wary of.

Indeed, she often wondered if she were dead, or dying from the inside out, and that was the root of her calm, the reason she could surrender her character.

Just my luck, if I believed in luck. I only believe in the opposite of luck, whatever that is.

Money is always transitively valued. More money is supposedly always better than less money.

It's best make changes little by little, the same as you'd put clothes upon a growing child.

It was getting the results that made science worth doing; the accolades were a thin, secondary pleasure.

I don't think I could stay interested for a couple of months in a character of mean motivation.

If it weren't for second chances, we'd all be alone.

Adolf Hitler is simply the dark-side of Mother Teresa.

Logic is a poor model of cause and effect.

I think everybody at some point - especially if they've been working their whole lives - should take time out and think about what they've done.