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

• When we want to be something other than the thing God wants us to be, we must be wanting what, in fact, will not make us happy.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • God
  • Happy

• Believe instead in love. It is my faith that love shaped the universe as you shape your clocks, delighting in creation. I believe that just as you wish to give me your clock in love, refusing payment, so God loves me and gave Himself for me. That is my faith. I cannot presume to force it upon you, I can only ask you in friendship to consider it.

  

  Elizabeth Goudge
  • God
  • Believe
  • Love

• The whole publicity machine is a very weird one. It's kind of a necessary part of what we do here, but this helps me keep grounded.

  

  Wendie Malick
  • Weird
  • Keep
  • Machine

• There is no ground on which House Republican leaders should compromise until Democrats are finally ready to give up their spending addiction.

  

  John Fleming
  • Up
  • House
  • Addiction

• Learning is experience. Everything else is just information.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Experience
  • Learning
  • Information

• 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