Jack Kerouac Quotes

Who knows, my God, but that the universe is not one vast sea of compassion actually, the veritable holy honey, beneath all this show of personality and cruelty?

Jack Kerouac

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• During the presidential primaries of 1940, I received a request from the Democratic National Committee to sing God Bless America before the speeches.

  

  Kate Smith
  • God
  • America
  • Presidential

• He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • God
  • Live
  • Alone

• If we don't change from a world society that worships money and power to one that worships compassion and generosity, I think we'll be extinct by mid-century. I don't say that as an alarmist or as a pessimist.

  

  Patch Adams
  • World
  • Money
  • Power

• One thing everyone seems to agree on is that Republicans face a perceived compassion deficit.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • Compassion
  • Face
  • Everyone

• Sea ice conditions have remained stable in Antarctica generally.

  

  Ian Allison
  • Sea
  • Conditions
  • Ice

• I really believed that my songs were good enough for the whole world to listen to. I had fans from America or the U.K. who would be like, 'Oh my God, I love your music'.

  

  Yuna
  • World
  • Music
  • God

• One of the things I do take some pride in is that if you had never read an article about my life, if you knew nothing about me, except that my books were being set in front of you to read, and if you were to read those books in sequence, I don't think you would say to yourself, 'Oh my God, something terrible happened to this writer in 1989.'

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Life
  • God
  • Pride

• I thought I knew there was a God. I always acknowledged that, but at the same time, I didn't live by those laws.

  

  Gary Sheffield
  • Time
  • God
  • Live

• What people love about Santorum is he is who is he. He speaks his words. He loves God. He loves his country, and he loves gays.

  

  Foster Friess
  • People
  • God
  • Country

• Remember that the good angels do what they can to preserve men from sin and obtain God's honor. But they do not lose courage when men fail.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • Good
  • God
  • Men

• I think if we wish to live in any kind of a moral universe, we must hold the perpetrators of violence responsible for the violence they perpetrate. It's very simple. The criminal is responsible for the crime.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Live
  • Wish
  • Simple

• God forbid that women have fantasies.

  

  E. L. James
  • God
  • Women
  • Fantasies

• Attraction is what happens between you. It's not universal. And it's not conventional. And thank God for that.

  

  Rainbow Rowell
  • God
  • You
  • Thank God

• There's a kind of optimism specifically within Christianity about the world - about whose side God is on. Well, I didn't have any of that in my background. I had physicality and chaos.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • World
  • God
  • Chaos

• It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • God
  • Universe
  • Imagination

• No one is good but God alone. What is good is therefore divine, what is divine is therefore good.

  

  Saint Ambrose
  • Good
  • God
  • Alone

• They say you can rap about anything except for Jesus, that means guns, sex, lies, video tapes, but if I talk about God my record won't get played Huh?

  

  Kanye West
  • God
  • Jesus
  • Sex

• Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.

  

  Walter Smith
  • God
  • Down
  • Looking

• It was like I had a curse on me. I couldn't believe how much God was piling on. There was so much death around me.

  

  George Michael
  • God
  • Believe
  • Death

• I had no intention of becoming a performer, and yet under miraculous circumstances I was brought into the music industry fold. If divine powers hadn't intervened, I'd still be living in China working in some area of Sino-American comparative law.

  

  Abigail Washburn
  • Music
  • American
  • Law

• I used to envy kids who had an old-fashioned Grandpa. Not any more. I've got a new ambition. Now I just want to become a modern-type Grandpa myself-and really start living.

  

  Hal Boyle
  • Kids
  • Ambition
  • Envy

• Do not the brave know The greatness of their progeny? A country present will meet thee, And while it may possibly be yours, Three hundred thousand years save one, A short hour of the day of everlasting life.

  

  Taliesin
  • Life
  • Country
  • May

• I keep drawing the trees, the rocks, the river, I'm still learning how to see them; I'm still discovering how to render their forms. I will spend a lifetime doing that. Maybe someday I'll get it right.

  

  Alan Lee
  • Learning
  • Drawing
  • Discovering

• Who knows, my God, but that the universe is not one vast sea of compassion actually, the veritable holy honey, beneath all this show of personality and cruelty?

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • God
  • Universe
  • Personality