John Ray Famous Quotes
Adversity makes men wise but not rich.
The younger brother hath the more wit.
"Though thou has never so many counselors, yet do not forsake the counsel of your soul."
John Ray Quotations
"If you think education is expensive, try ignorance."
Derek Curtis Bok
Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.
Bernard Mannes Baruch
"Vladimir That passed the time. Estragon It would have passed in any case. Vladimir Yes, but not so rapidly."
Samuel Beckett
"You know quite well, deep within you, that there is only a single magic, a single power, a single salvation...and that is called loving. Well, then, love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is your aversion that hurts, nothing else."
Hermann Hesse
"History, although sometimes made up of the few acts of the great, is more often shaped by the many acts of the small."
Mark Yost
"The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort."
Ezra Loomis Pound
"There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever."
Thomas Alva Edison
There are some books that refuse to be written. They stand their ground year after year and will not be persuaded. It isn't because the book is not there and worth being written -- it is only because the right form of the story does not present itself. There is only one right form for a story and if you fail to find that form the story will not tell itself.
Mark Twain
The crowd gives the leader new strength.
Evenius
"Apparent failure may hold in its rough shell the germs of a success that will blossom in time, and bear fruit throughout eternity."
Frances Watkins Harper