Eric Reeves Quotes

One corpse in a well destroys the viability of the well.

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• I don't think that work ever really destroyed anybody. I think that lack of work destroys them a hell of a lot more.

  

  Katharine Hepburn
  • Work
  • Hell
  • Destroys

• The difference between a learned man and an ignorant one is the same as that between a living man and a corpse.

  

  Aristotle
  • Difference
  • Living
  • Learned

• Lack of activity destroys the good condition of every human being.

  

  Plato
  • Human being
  • Destroys
  • Lack

• To me the worst thing seems to be a school principally to work with methods of fear, force and artificial authority. Such treatment destroys the sound sentiments, the sincerity and the self-confidence of pupils and produces a subservient subject.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • School
  • Sincerity
  • Destroys

• What destroys a man more quickly than to work, think and feel without inner necessity, without any deep personal desire, without pleasure - as a mere automaton of duty?

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Desire
  • Destroys
  • Automaton

• A third reason why we should love our enemies is that love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend. We never get rid of an enemy by meeting hate with hate; we get rid of an enemy by getting rid of enmity. By its very nature, hate destroys and tears down; by its very nature, love creates and builds up. Love transforms with redemptive power.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Love
  • Hate
  • Reason

• Hate destroys the hater.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Hate
  • Destroys

• Remember, gentlemen, what a Roman emperor said: The corpse of an enemy always smells sweet.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Enemy
  • Gentlemen
  • Corpse

• Although tyranny...may successfully rule over foreign peoples, it can stay in power only if it destroys first of all the national institutions of its own people.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Tyranny
  • Institutions
  • Destroys

• Every man has a right over his own life and war destroys lives that were full of promise; it forces the individual into situations that shame his manhood, obliging him to murder fellow men, against his will.

  

  Sigmund Freud
  • Life
  • Promise
  • Destroys

• It destroys the soul to hear that you're all hype, that you have no talent, and that your whole career has been contrived.

  

  Freddie Mercury Queen
  • Soul
  • Talent
  • Destroys

• Fortunately, we can take in only so much misfortune; what exceeds that limit either destroys us or leaves us indifferent.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Misfortune
  • Destroys
  • Indifferent

• The death-change comes. Death is another life. We bow our heads At going out, we think, and enter straight Another golden chamber of the king's Larger than this we leave, and lovelier. And then in shadowy glimpses, disconnect, The story, flower-like, closes thus its leaves. The will of God is all in all. He makes, Destroys, remakes, for His own pleasure, all.

  

  Philip James Bailey
  • Life
  • Death
  • Destroys

• No doubt it is easy to demostrate that property will destroy society unless society destroys it.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Society
  • Doubt
  • Property

• Every revolution destroys the average middle first and most savagely.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Revolution
  • Middle
  • Destroys

• A fool acquires knowledge only to his own disadvantage. It destroys what good he has, and turns his brains.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Knowledge
  • Destroys
  • Disadvantage

• Some people are so much afraid of being deceived, that they never venture to trust; like misers, their avarice destroys their gain.

  

  Norm MacDonald
  • Trust
  • Afraid
  • Destroys

• The love for material things grows like a fungus in the soul and destroys the loveliness of the human heart utterly.

  

  Caryll Houselander
  • Heart
  • Soul
  • Destroys

• As happens with people who love a thing too much, it destroys them. Oscar Wilde said, 'You destroy the thing that you love.' It's the other way around. What you love destroys you.

  

  George Plimpton
  • Love
  • Happens
  • Destroys

• I found myself in the doldrums in the early Nineties. I was too old to play the dolly bird any longer and I looked too young to play a woman of my real age. No one ever saw me as the aunt, mother or grandmother.

  

  Barbara Windsor
  • Real
  • Mother
  • Age

• And she didn't once say anything about this being a sin. It used to be I got the word sin slapped in my face every time I did something wrong, but come on, when you live in a sin-free family with sin-free parents and a sin-free sister, well, you can't help but sin a little extra on their behalf.

  

  Han Nolan
  • Sin
  • Word
  • Behalf

• Christ is not a reservoir but a spring. His life is continual, active and ever passing on with an outflow as necessary as its inflow. If we do not perpetually draw the fresh supply from the living Fountain, we shall either grow stagnant or empty, It is, therefore, not so much a perpetual fullness as a perpetual filling.

  

  Albert Benjamin Simpson
  • Life
  • Spring
  • Life is

• We do not go to the green woods and crystal waters to rough it, we go to smooth it. We get it rough enough at home, in towns and cities.

  

  George W. Sears
  • Home
  • Cities
  • Woods

• One corpse in a well destroys the viability of the well.

  

  Eric Reeves
  • Destroys
  • Corpse