Jerry Stahl Famous Quotes
"SOAPY You know, feisty women never get boring. JOEL Let me tell you something. Boring women get a bad rap. There's a lot to be said for boring women."
"If you're here for four more years or four more weeks, you're here right now. I think when you're somewhere, you ought to be there. It's not about how long you stay in a place, it's about what you do while you're there, and when you go, is that place any better for your having been there"
Jerry Stahl Quotations
"We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until we move from the passive voice to the active voice-that is, until we have stopped saying 'It got lost,' and say, 'I lost it.'"
Sydney Harris
He who can't endure the bad will not live to see the good.
Yiddish Proverb
"A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at."
Bruce Lee
"When it is darkest, men see the stars."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"A guidance counselor who has made a fetish of security, or who has unwittingly surrendered his thinking to economic determinism, may steer a youth away from his dream of becoming a poet, an artist, a musician or any other of thousands of things, because it offers no security, it does not pay well, there are no vacancies, it has no future."
Henry M Wriston
"If you must choose between two paths, either of which will bring death and defeat, then choose the path wherein you die fighting for honor and justice."
Pan Ku
"You (God) have not only commanded continence, that is, from what things we are to restrain our love, but also justice, that is, on what we are to bestow our love."
Saint Augustine
The man who acts never has any conscience no one has any conscience but the man who thinks.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds.
Rmy de Gourmont
"If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been."
Dr Robert Schuller