John Muir Quotes
The practical importance of the preservation of our forests is augmented by their relations to climate, soil and streams.
Quotes to Explore
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When I was going through puberty, I had all these feelings of being unstable through those years, and being uncontrollably drawn to things of beauty and things that are bad.
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Jews had an outsider's eye on a lot of Western tradition.
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No foreigner has a place asking another people, another country, to change their constitution.
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It is proper to ask for sorrow with Christ in sorrow, anguish with Christ in anguish, tears and deep grief because of the great affliction Christ endures for me.
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Life isn't about quantity, it's about quality.
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I don't care about how much other actors get.
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Can anyone understand how it is to have lived in the White House and then, suddenly, to be living alone as the President's widow?
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Early impressions are like glimpses seen through the window by night when lightning is about.
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This is my seventh decade... and every once in a while I get a hankering to re-visit these songs again... songs with which I have had a great relationship.
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A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.
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I have a checklist of things I'd like to do in movies. One of them is get possessed. Die on a deathbed with a ghostly pallor - that's on my list.
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I have always stood in awe of the camera. I recognize it for the instrument it is, part Stradivarius, part scalpel.
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I'm a punk rocker. I don't do Christian.
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The U.S. government has known since the early 1990s about Soviet-era smallpox weapons, and collected circumstantial evidence of programs elsewhere.
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I see if I can make human beings look like reptiles.
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Only the guys who never made it and will never make it in the U.S. need to put up the front that they don't care about America.
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I always see that there's a - from a philosophical point of view - there's the appearance of things that everybody wants you to think is happening, then there's the reality underneath it.
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We are not weak if we make a proper use of those means which the God of Nature has placed in our power... the battle, sir, is not to the strong alone it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave.
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Just because everybody else is engaged in a group hug with Barack Obama doesn't mean that somebody doesn't have to tell the truth.
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I love the fact that I can make people happy, in any form. Even if it’s just an hour of their lives, if I can make them feel lucky or make them feel good, or bring a smile to a sour face, that to me is worthwhile.
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Let nothing perturb you, nothing frighten you. All things pass. God does not change. Patience achieves everything.
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I like the busy-ness of office life. What I discovered, to my surprise, is that I love the solitary nature of writing. What happens is that you write when you're ready.
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The practical importance of the preservation of our forests is augmented by their relations to climate, soil and streams.
