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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Full knee-deep lies the winter snow,
And the winter winds are wearily sighing:
Toll ye the church bell sad and slow,
And tread softly and speak low,
For the old year lies a-dying.
Old year you must not die;
You came to us so readily,
You lived with us so steadily,
Old year you shall not die.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Grammar is the mistress of words, the embellisher of the human race; through the practice of the noble reading of ancient authors, she helps us, we know, by her counsels. The barbarian kings do not use her; as is well known, she remains unique to lawful rulers. For the tribes possess arms and the rest; rhetoric is found in sole obedience to the lords of the Romans.
Cassiodorus
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Commerce has made all winds her mistress.
John Sterling
