quotes and sayings for him

Silence is a sounding thing, to one who listens hungrily. ~Gwendolyn Bennett



Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands. But like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you will reach your destiny. ~Carl Schurz, address, Faneuil Hall, Boston, 1859



What about football? Is it a sport or a concussion? ~Jim Murray, Los Angeles Times



A canter is a cure for every evil. ~Benjamin Disraeli



Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save. ~Will Rogers, Autobiography, 1949



Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things. ~T.S. Eliot, Tradition and the Individual Talent, 1919



He that wants money, means, and content is without three good friends. ~William Shakespeare



Easter tells us that life is to be interpreted not simply in terms of things but in terms of ideals. ~Charles M. Crowe



One's action ought to come out of an achieved stillness: not to be a mere rushing on. ~D.H. Lawrence



Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness. ~Seneca



To me, being an American means feeling safe. ~Currielene Armstrong



The best contraceptive is a glass of cold water: not before or after, but instead. ~Author Unknown



Curling... when you can tell your lady that she is wide without fear of getting whacked upside the head with a cast iron pan. Or proclaim out loud that she is too heavy, knowing that your comment has been heard by countless bystanders. Where you can order your better half to sweep, sweep hard, and having the never before seen result of actually seeing her gutting it out just to please you! For in curling, you are the king of the house! ~Author Unknown



But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance: against such there is no law. ~Galatians 5:22, 23



Great knightly soul who came in time to serve his country's need. ~Margaret E. Sangster



As I like to say to the people in Montgomery: "The tension in this city is not between white people and Negro people. The tension is, at bottom, between justice and injustice, between the forces of light and the forces of darkness." ~Martin Luther King, Jr., Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story, 1958



Don't worry about losing. If it is right, it happens - The Main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away. ~John Steinbeck, 10 November 1958



A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer. ~Karl Kraus



All morons hate it when you call them a moron. ~J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Chapter 6



Give a man a fish, and he can eat for a day. But teach a man how to fish, and he'll be dead of mercury poisoning inside of three years. ~Charles Haas