John Andrew Holmes Famous Quotes
"Yes, we love peace, but we are not willing to take wounds for it, as we are for war."
"The universe is not hostile, nor yet is it unfriendly. It is simply indifferent."
There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.
"It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others."
A good excercise for the heart is to bend down and help another up.
"Evil is a fact not to be explained away, but to be accepted and accepted not to be endured, but to be conquered. It is a challenge neither to our reason nor to our patience, but to our courage."
"Speech is conveniently located midway between thought and action, where it often substitutes for both."
John Andrew Holmes Quotations
The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.
Salvador Dali
"What a man has, so much he is sure of."
Miguel de Cervantes
"A great writer is, so to speak, a second government in his country. And for that reason no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones."
Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
Death is Nature's expert advice to get plenty of Life.
Johann von Goethe
"A path is only a path, and there is no affront, to oneself or to others, in dropping it if that is what your heart tells you. Look at every path closely and deliberately. Try it as many times as you think necessary. Then ask yourself alone, one question. Does this path have a heart If it does, the path is good if it doesn't it is of no use."
Carlos Castaneda
"In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite."
Paul Dirac
I have tried to lift France out of the mud. But she will return to her errors and vomitings. I cannot prevent the French from being French.
Charles De Gaulle
"The world began without man, and it will complete itself without him."
Claude LeviStrauss
"Men who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this."
Benjamin Haydon
"As flies to wanton boys, are we to the godsThey kill us for their sport."
William Shakespeare