Jim Bishop Famous Quotes
The future is an opaque mirror. Anyone who tries to look into it sees nothing but the dim outlines of an old and worried face.
Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.
Jim Bishop Quotations
Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he doesn't become a monster.
Friedrich Nietzsche
He does not preach what he practices till he has practiced what he preaches.
Confucius
A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to want to take it off you.
Franoise Sagan
"To those who charge that liberalism has been tried and found wanting, I answer that the failure is not in the idea, but in the course of recent history. The New Deal was ended by World War II. The New Frontier was closed by Berlin and Cuba almost before it was opened. And the Great Society lost its greatness in the jungles of Indochina."
George Stanley McGovern
No idea is so antiquated that it was not once modern. No idea is so modern that it will not someday be antiquated.
Ellen Glasgow
But if you build your life on dreams it's prudent to recall a man with moonlight in his hands has nothing there at all.
Don Quixote
The last time I saw him he was walking down Lover's Lane holding his own hand.
Fred Allen
"To will is to select a goal, determine a course of action that will bring one to that goal, and then hold to that action till the goal is reached. The key is action."
Michael Hanson
Facts are stupid things.
Ronald Reagan
"I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence of mine either out of its context or in juxtaposition to some incongruous matter which quite distorted my meaning , or destroyed it altogether."
Alfred North Whitehead