Edmund Morris Quotes
ON FRIDAY, 25 August, Roosevelt shocked most of his countrymen by dropping to the floor of Long Island Sound in one of the Navy’s six new submarines, appropriately named the Plunger. He remained beneath the surface (lashed with heavy rain) long enough to watch fish swim past his window. Then, taking the controls, he essayed a few movements himself, including one which brought the ship to the surface rear end up.
Edmund Morris
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The action carries a sense of incompleteness and frustration, but not of guilt. Victorious living does not mean perfect living in the sense of living without flaw, but it does mean adequate living, and that can be consistent with many mistakes.
E. Stanley Jones
When 'our people' get to the point where they can do us some good, they stop being 'our people.'
M. Stanton Evans
I do not think anyone can ever do anything without the help and will of God.
Andrea Bocelli
There are sixteen cans of coffee here; together they hold a total of thirteen and a half pounds of coffee. Doesn't that seem like cheating?
Andy Rooney
Trust God for the impossible-miracles are His department. Our job is to do our best, letting the Lord do the rest.
David Jeremiah
If you punish a child for being naughty, and reward him for being good, he will do right merely for the sake of the reward; and when he goes out into the world and finds that goodness is not always rewarded, nor wickedness always punished, he will grow into a man who only thinks about how he may get on in the world, and does right or wrong according as he finds advantage to himself.
Immanuel Kant
Truth, as any dictionary will tell you, is a property of certain of our ideas. It means their agreement, as falsity means their disagreement, with reality.
William James
Cowardice is submissive surrender to circumstances.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Jesus reminds us that the good life combines the toughness of the serpent and the tenderness of the dove. To have serpent-like qualities devoid of dovelike qualities is to be passionless, mean, and selfish. To have dovelike without serpent-like qualities is to be sentimental, anemic and aimless. We must combine strongly marked antitheses.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
All true readers have a book, a moment when real life is never going to be able to compete with fiction again.
Kate Morton
Few people have the imagination for reality.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I had gotten to the point where I was either going to play the violin much better or I was going to break it over my knee.
Ellen Taaffe Zwilich
Only he is truly a patriot who, whatever his post, high or low, tries to do the greatest possible good to his countrymen.
Apolinario Mabini
Foras Road has a sordid reputation (…) Old crones sat in doorways, while their daughters were pushed out to earn money. It is intriguing that a society which is very covert with sexuality should be so straightforward about prostitution.
Sayyid Tahir al-Hashimi
I remember it all for the most part. I remember it well enough that I don't need to see it again. I felt like (the arm) was going to fall off, so I was just trying to hold it. I've never felt anything like that, period.
J. M. Roberts
The landscape inside Lord of the Rings was so stunning and so stupendous that it could be absorbed as a form of nourishment.
Jasper Fforde
ON FRIDAY, 25 August, Roosevelt shocked most of his countrymen by dropping to the floor of Long Island Sound in one of the Navy’s six new submarines, appropriately named the Plunger. He remained beneath the surface (lashed with heavy rain) long enough to watch fish swim past his window. Then, taking the controls, he essayed a few movements himself, including one which brought the ship to the surface rear end up.
Edmund Morris
