John Sterling Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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People are like sticks of dynamite. The power is on the inside, but nothing happens until the fuse gets lit.
Mac Anderson
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Never has man reached his destination by persistence in deviation from the straight path.
Mahatma Gandhi
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I am a Jew: Hath not a Jew eyes? hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? fed with die same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer, as a Christian is?
William Shakespeare
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You are not wood, you are not stones, but men;
And being men, hearing the will of Caesar,
It will inflame you, it will make you mad.
William Shakespeare
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Piety is different from superstition. To carry piety to the extent of superstition is to destroy it. The heretics reproach us with this superstitious submission. It is doing what they reproach us with.
Blaise Pascal
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The inclination to aggression constitutes the greatest impediment to civilization.
Sigmund Freud
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I'd describe myself as a pragmatist tinged with idealism.
Vernon A. Walters
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Please, please, help me grow to be like them, the ones'll soon be here, who never grow old, can't die, that's what they say, can't die, no matter what, or maybe they died a long time ago but Cecy calls, and Mother and Father call, and Grandmere who only whispers, and now they're coming and I'm nothing, not like them who pass through walls and live in trees or live underneath until seventeen-year rains flood them up and out, and the ones who run in packs, let me be the one! If they live forever, why not me?
Ray Bradbury
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This is really a chance for us to share what we did on the flight.
Eileen Collins
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A man who marries his mistress leaves a vacancy in that position.
Oscar Wilde
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The talkative listen to no one, for they are ever speaking. And the first evil that attends those who know not to be silent is that they hear nothing.
Plutarch
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From morn To noon he fell, from noon to dewy eve,- A summer's day; and with the setting sun Dropp'd from the Zenith like a falling star.
John Milton
