T. J. Perkins Quotes

There is no reconciliation until you recognize the dignity of the other, until you see their view- you have to enter into the pain of the people. You've got to feel their need.

The people are what matter to government, and a government should aim to give all the people under its jurisdiction the best possible life.

We live out our call most fully when we are a community of faith with arms wrapped about a community of pain.

Being a woman has only bothered me in climbing trees.

Feminism means revolution and I am a revolutionist.

I came to Washington to work for God, FDR, and the millions of forgotten, plain common workingmen.

The more you know who you are, and what you want, the less you let things upset you.

When all usefulness is over, when one is assured of an unavoidable and imminent death, it is the simplest of human rights to choose a quick and easy death in place of a slow and horrible one.

Life is a verb, not a noun.

The accusation that I am a woman is incontrovertible.

Most of man's problems upon this planet, in the long history of the race, have been met and solved either partially or as a whole by experiment based on common sense and carried out with courage.

For the two of us, home isn't a place. It is a person. And we are finally home.

You don't give people dignity. You affirm it.

If it weren't for the rocks in its bed, the stream would have no song.

Godly leadership is not about attaining recognition or glory; it's about serving others.

In order for the brain to comprehend the heart must first listen.

History is a kind of introduction to more interesting people than we can possibly meet in our restricted lives; let us not neglect the opportunity.

Writing is not the lottery. New writers have to be realistic about what it takes to get published. But there is one similarity to the lottery: You have to play to win.

I taught myself off records, Memphis Slim, them old piano players, then added to it. Yeah, hard and loud, beat it to pieces.

It's only when we're relaxed that the thing way down deep in all of us - call it the subconscious mind, the spirit, what you will - has a chance to well up and tell us how we shall go.

We grovel and "worship" and pray to God to do what we ourselves ought to have done a thousand years ago, and can do now, as soon as we choose.

That rockabilly sound wasn't as simple as I thought it was.

The big deal is we think the power is in us individuallythe power is in us collectively. It is in the church.

Man is everywhere a disturbing agent. Wherever he plants his foot, the harmonies of nature are turned to discords.

Man has too long forgotten that the earth was given to him for usufruct alone, not for consumption, still less for profligate waste.

Justice goes across racial and economic barriers - like the good Samaritan.

Editors are extremely fallible people, all of them. Don't put too much trust in them.

It is those people who know that they are right because some outside or higher power conveys the conviction to them who do the great damage in the world.

The improvement of forest trees is the work of centuries. So much more the reason for beginning now.

You can’t know a book until you come to the end of it, and then all the rest must be modified to fit that.

The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.

Every good thing that comes is accompanied by trouble.

The great question, whether man is of nature or above her.

The poor need the motivation, the incentives, the skills, the education so they can help themselves.

Learn about writing from reading. That is the right way to do it.

Education is not a luxury in modern American society-it is essential for survival.

In America, public opinion is the leader

Writing, like drawing is an art, and whatever conveys the meaning is justified.

To swallow and follow, whether old doctrine or new propaganda, is a weakness still dominating the human mind.

Sight is a faculty; seeing is an art.

What we publishers think is that our function is to bring everything out into the open, on the theory that we have an adult population that knows values, or can learn them, and let them decide.

You can knock me down, step on my face, slander my name all over the place. Do anything that you want to do, but uh-oh, honey, lay off of my shoes.

The book belongs to the author.

You are all right on time, except for the fact that time is the enemy of us all, and especially of the writer.

I've never met anyone who wanted to be a terrorist. They are desperate people.

Love grows by service.

I do not think anyone can read War and Peace too much. I read it six times.

You have to throw yourself away when you write.

I believe the writer... should always be the final judge. I have always held to that position and have sometimes seen books hurt thereby, but at least as often helped. The book belongs to the author.

To one who believes that really good industrial conditions are the hope for a machine civilization, nothing is more heartening than to watch conference methods and education replacing police methods