Gene Spafford Quotes
Questioning the status quo can result in banishment, imprisonment, ridicule or being burned at the stake, depending on your era, your locale, and the sacred cows you wish to butcher.
Gene Spafford
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And there was a real shedding of the old dogma, like boundaries of morality were being broken down and everybody was into the new party mode of just loving on each other. Which destroyed thousands of us. I lost 16 of my personal friends through that lifestyle.
Barry McGuire
Walk in this faithless grass with studious tread, Lest mice, weasels, germane beasts, too soon The tall hat and eyes, the fierce feet, for dead Descry, and fix you prone in their revelling moon.
Allen Tate
I do not understand men. They spend their lives to use their health to make money and then they spend their money to restore their health.
Dalai Lama
Beauty, alone, may please, not captivate; if lacking grace, 'tis but a hookless bait.
Bill Vaughan
The poetical impression of any object is that uneasy, exquisite sense of beauty or power that cannot be contained within itself; that is impatient of all limit; that (as flame bends to flame) strives to link itself to some other image of kindred beauty or grandeur; to enshrine itself, as it were, in the highest forms of fancy, and to relieve the aching sense of pleasure by expressing it in the boldest manner.
William Hazlitt
Show is not substance; realities govern wise men.
William Penn
A series is filled with compromises.
William Shatner
Plato used to say to Xenocrates the philosopher, who was rough and morose, "Good Xenocrates, sacrifice to the Graces.
Plutarch
The greatest general is he who makes the fewest mistakes.
Napoleon Bonaparte
[Copernicus] did not ignore the Bible, but he knew very well that if his doctrine were proved, then it could not contradict the Scriptures when they were rightly understood.
Galileo Galilei
Success leaves clues, but they must be acted upon.
Anthony Robbins
I have been brought to my emotional knees, but not in regard to the science of this topic, ... I am a devastated, broken, grieving mother, but I am not second-guessing or questioning my understanding of the issue.
Christine Maggiore
