Quotes 1 - 6 - 18 : 1, Dewar, Sandburg

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Thomas Dewar Quotes
Scottish - Businessman January 6, 1864 - April 11, 1930

Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
Thomas Dewar

No wife can endure a gambling husband; unless he is a steady winner.
Thomas Dewar

There are two kinds of pedestrians... the quick and the dead.
Thomas Dewar

The only thing that hurts more than paying an income tax is not having to pay an income tax.
Thomas Dewar

Judge not a man by his clothes, but by his wife's clothes.
Thomas Dewar

The road to success is filled with women pushing their husbands along.
Thomas Dewar

Carl Sandburg Quotes
American - Poet January 6, 1878 - July 22, 1967

I doubt if you can have a truly wild party without liquor.
Carl Sandburg

The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.
Carl Sandburg

A baby is God's opinion that life should go on.
Carl Sandburg

Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.
Carl Sandburg

To be a good loser is to learn how to win.
Carl Sandburg

Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.
Carl Sandburg

There is an eagle in me that wants to soar, and there is a hippopotamus in me that wants to wallow in the mud.
Carl Sandburg

Strange things blow in through my window on the wings of the night wind and I don't worry about my destiny.
Carl Sandburg

Nothing happens unless first we dream.
Carl Sandburg

Life is like an onion. You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.
Carl Sandburg

I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes, so live not in your yesterdays, no just for tomorrow, but in the here and now. Keep moving and forget the post mortems; and remember, no one can get the jump on the future.
Carl Sandburg

I am an idealist. I don't know where I'm going but I'm on my way.
Carl Sandburg

Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.
Carl Sandburg

A politician should have three hats. One for throwing into the ring, one for talking through, and one for pulling rabbits out of if elected.
Carl Sandburg

In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you awake in the morning.
Carl Sandburg

Every blunder behind us is giving a cheer for us, and only for those who were willing to fail are the dangers and splendors of life.
Carl Sandburg

The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.
Carl Sandburg

Where was I going? I puzzled and wondered about it til I actually enjoyed the puzzlement and wondering.
Carl Sandburg

Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split one boulder.
Carl Sandburg

Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure whether they have it till the test comes. And those having it in one test never know for sure if they will have it when the next test comes.
Carl Sandburg

Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you listen.
Carl Sandburg

I had taken a course in Ethics. I read a thick textbook, heard the class discussions and came out of it saying I hadn't learned a thing I didn't know before about morals and what is right or wrong in human conduct.
Carl Sandburg

All politicians should have 3 hats - one to throw into the ring, one to talk through, and one to pull rabbits out of if elected.
Carl Sandburg

I learned you can't trust the judgment of good friends.
Carl Sandburg

Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me.
Carl Sandburg

The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is a colossal scavenger slang and has no respect.
Carl Sandburg

Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.
Carl Sandburg

Love your neighbor as yourself; but don't take down the fence.
Carl Sandburg

I couldn't see myself filling some definite niche in what is called a career. This was all misty.
Carl Sandburg

Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by.
Carl Sandburg

The greatest cunning is to have none at all.
Carl Sandburg

I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until, perhaps, she passes into the realm of over ninety. Then it is better she be candid with herself and with the world.
Carl Sandburg

Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during the moment.
Carl Sandburg

One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude.
Carl Sandburg

I never made a mistake in grammar but one in my life and as soon as I done it I seen it.
Carl Sandburg

I've written some poetry I don't understand myself.
Carl Sandburg

Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.
Carl Sandburg

Arithmetic is where the answer is right and everything is nice and you can look out of the window and see the blue sky - or the answer is wrong and you have to start over and try again and see how it comes out this time.
Carl Sandburg

A man may be born, but in order to be born he must first die, and in order to die he must first awake.
Carl Sandburg

Here is the difference between Dante, Milton, and me. They wrote about hell and never saw the place. I wrote about Chicago after looking the town over for years and years.
Carl Sandburg

Calling it off comes easy enough if you haven't told the girl you are smitten with her.
Carl Sandburg

Often I look back and see that I had been many kinds of a fool-and that I had been happy in being this or that kind of fool.
Carl Sandburg

The scholars and poets of an earlier time can be read only with a dictionary to help.
Carl Sandburg

We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.
Carl Sandburg

When I was writing pretty poor poetry, this girl with midnight black hair told me to go on.
Carl Sandburg

Ordering a man to write a poem is like commanding a pregnant woman to give birth to a red-headed child.
Carl Sandburg

To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then go to hell after all would be too damn hard.
Carl Sandburg

Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed.
Carl Sandburg

All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.
Carl Sandburg

A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.
Carl Sandburg

I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth.
Carl Sandburg

I can remember only a few of the strange and curious words now dead but living and spoken by the English people a thousand years ago.
Carl Sandburg

I decided I would go to Chicago and try my luck as a writer after those eight months as a fireman.
Carl Sandburg

I fell in love, not deep, but I fell several times and then fell out.
Carl Sandburg

I had been keeping an off eye on the advertising field, thinking I might become an idea man and a copywriter.
Carl Sandburg

I have become infected, now that I see how beautifully a book is coming out of all this.
Carl Sandburg

I have in later years taken to Euclid, Whitehead, Bertrand Russell, in an elemental way.
Carl Sandburg

I have often wondered what it is an old building can do to you when you happen to know a little about things that went on long ago in that building.
Carl Sandburg

I knew I would read all kinds of books and try to get at what it is that makes good writers good. But I made no promises that I would write books a lot of people would like to read.
Carl Sandburg

I make it clear why I write as I do and why other poets write as they do. After hundreds of experiments I decided to go my own way in style and see what would happen.
Carl Sandburg

I stayed away from mathematics not so much because I knew it would be hard work as because of the amount of time I knew it would take, hours spent in a field where I was not a natural.
Carl Sandburg

I took to wearing a black tie known as the Ascot, with long drooping ends. I had seen pictures of painters, sculptors, poets, wearing this style of tie.
Carl Sandburg

I wrote poems in my corner of the Brooks Street station. I sent them to two editors who rejected them right off. I read those letters of rejection years later and I agreed with those editors.
Carl Sandburg

I'm either going to be a writer or a bum.
Carl Sandburg

My room for books and study or for sitting and thinking about nothing in particular to see what would happen was at the end of a hall.
Carl Sandburg

There are 10 men in me and I do not know or understand one of them.
Carl Sandburg

There have been as many varieties of socialists as there are wild birds that fly in the woods and sometimes go up and on through the clouds.
Carl Sandburg

There was always the consolation that if I didn't like what I wrote I could throw it away or burn it.
Carl Sandburg

We don't have to think up a title till we get the doggone book written.
Carl Sandburg

We had two grand antique professors who had been teaching at Lombard since before I was born.
Carl Sandburg

You remember some bedrooms you have slept in. There are bedrooms you like to remember and others you would like to forget.
Carl Sandburg

Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.
Carl Sandburg

Shame is the feeling you have when you agree with the woman who loves you that you are the man she thinks you are.
Carl Sandburg

When a nation goes down, or a society perishes, one condition may always be found; they forgot where they came from. They lost sight of what had brought them along.
Carl Sandburg

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Quotes 1 - 6 - 18 : 3, Holmes, Adams, Ellul, Watts
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John Holmes Quotes American - Poet January 6, 1904 - June 22, 1962 To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry. John Holmes It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others. John Holmes Yes, we love peace, but we are not willing to take wounds for it, as we are for war. John Holmes Every genuine boy is a rebel and an anarch. If he were allowed to develop according to his own instincts, his own inclinations, society would undergo such a radical transformation as to make the adult revolutionary cower and cringe. John Holmes Joey Adams Quotes American - Comedian January 6, 1911 - December 2, 1999 Do not worry about avoiding temptation. As you grow older it will avoid you. Joey Adams Never let a fool kiss you, or a kiss fool you. Joey Adams If it weren't for the fact that the TV set and the refrigerator are so far apart, some of us wouldn't get any exercise at all. Joey Adams Rockefeller once explained the secret of success. 'Get up early, work late - and strike oil.' Joey Adams The difference between playing the stock market and the horses is that one of the horses must win. Joey Adams Marriage is give and take. You'd better give it to her or she'll take it anyway. Joey Adams A psychiatrist asks a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing. Joey Adams If you break 100, watch your golf. If you break 80, watch your business. Joey Adams People are still willing to do an honest day's work. The trouble is they want a week's pay for it. Joey Adams Jacques Ellul Quotes French - Philosopher January 6, 1912 - May 19, 1994 Modern technology has become a total phenomenon for civilization, the defining force of a new social order in which efficiency is no longer an option but a necessity imposed on all human activity. Jacques Ellul Mass media provides the essential link between the individual and the demands of the technological society. Jacques Ellul It is the emergence of mass media which makes possible the use of propaganda techniques on a societal scale. Jacques Ellul The goal of modern propaganda is no longer to transform opinion but to arouse an active and mythical belief. Jacques Ellul In sum, thought and reflection have been rendered thoroughly pointless by the circumstances in which modern men and women live and act. Jacques Ellul The Holy Spirit alone can do this, the Holy Spirit alone can establish this link with one's neighbor. Jacques Ellul The orchestration of press, radio and television to create a continuous, lasting and total environment renders the influence of propaganda virtually unnoticed precisely because it creates a constant environment. Jacques Ellul Thinking has become a superfluous exercise... purely internal, without compelling force, more or less a game. Jacques Ellul Prayer holds together the shattered fragments of the creation. It makes history possible. Jacques Ellul The intellectual who wants to do her work properly must today go back to the starting point: the woman whom she knows, and first of all to herself. It is at that level, and at no other, that she ought to begin to think about the world situation. Jacques Ellul For the word is dialectical in itself and at the same time is integrated into the whole of existence. By this I mean that the word is intended to be lived. Jacques Ellul All human language draws its nature and value from the fact that it both comes from the Word of God and is chosen by God to manifest himself. But this relationship is secret and incomprehensible, beyond the bounds of reason and analysis. Jacques Ellul Alan Watts Quotes English - Philosopher January 6, 1915 - November 16, 1973 The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance. Alan Watts To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float. Alan Watts The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention. Alan Watts You don't look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you. Alan Watts We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain. Alan Watts I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is. Alan Watts No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now. Alan Watts I owe my solitude to other people. Alan Watts But I'll tell you what hermits realize. If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you'll come to understand that you're connected with everything. Alan Watts Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know. Alan Watts Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations. Alan Watts Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth. Alan Watts You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean. Alan Watts How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god. Alan Watts Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command. Alan Watts No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now. Alan Watts You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes. Alan Watts The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulating what they think is vast wealth, but it's only money... they don't know how to enjoy it, because they have no imagination. Alan Watts The myths underlying our culture and underlying our common sense have not taught us to feel identical with the universe, but only parts of it, only in it, only confronting it - aliens. Alan Watts Saints need sinners. Alan Watts So then, the relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself. Alan Watts Omnipotence is not knowing how everything is done; it's just doing it. Alan Watts Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes. Alan Watts The reason we want to go on and on is because we live in an impoverished present. Alan Watts So the bodhisattva saves all beings, not by preaching sermons to them, but by showing them that they are delivered, they are liberated, by the act of not being able to stop changing. Alan Watts So what is discord at one level of your being is harmony at another level. Alan Watts But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be. Alan Watts What the devil is the point of surviving, going on living, when it's a drag? But you see, that's what people do. Alan Watts The style of God venerated in the church, mosque, or synagogue seems completely different from the style of the natural universe. Alan Watts But to me nothing - the negative, the empty - is exceedingly powerful. Alan Watts Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe. Alan Watts We identify in our exerience a differentiation between what we do and what happens to us. Alan Watts In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all. Alan Watts The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity. Alan Watts Some believe all that parents, tutors, and kindred believe. They take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they would their estates, because they are born heirs to them. Alan Watts And although our bodies are bounded with skin, and we can differentiate between outside and inside, they cannot exist except in a certain kind of natural environment. Alan Watts And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on. Alan Watts In known history, nobody has had such capacity for altering the universe than the people of the United States of America. And nobody has gone about it in such an aggressive way. Alan Watts But at any rate, the point is that God is what nobody admits to being, and everybody really is. Alan Watts But we try to pretend, you see, that the external world exists altogether independently of us. Alan Watts A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world. Alan Watts Buddhism has in it no idea of there being a moral law laid down by somekind of cosmic lawgiver. 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I had to look him up. Another teacher of common sense, there are many, how come there are so many lacking that, there are plenty of teachers around?
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