Which Quotes

God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on the day when our lives cease to be illumined by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder, the source of which is beyond all reason.

All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.

Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderate use rather than total abstinence.

There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.

We sleep, but the loom of life never stops, and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up in the morning.

Love is a game in which one always cheats.

The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.

Dare to be true. Nothing can need a lie: a fault which needs it most, grows two thereby.

Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not understood.

That though the radiance which was once so bright be now forever taken from my sight. Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, glory in the flower. We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind.

I lay a lot of blame at the feet of Dusty Baker for not being more strict about fundamentals, which I think would give the team a stronger day-to-day identity.

We hear only those questions for which we are in a position to find answers.

But I'm kind of comfortable with getting older because it's better than the other option, which is being dead. So I'll take getting older.

They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice... that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.

Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time.

The Constitution is the guide which I never will abandon.

There is a certain majesty in simplicity which is far above all the quaintness of wit.

Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow.

The true genius shudders at incompleteness - and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.

The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged.

Giving up represents a choice you make when you decide not to take action on something over which you actually do have control.

My dad would give me $10, which is a lot of money when you're 9, to sing at church, on tables at restaurants, at family functions, just about anywhere.

A state is better governed which has few laws, and those laws strictly observed.

Like success, failure is many things to many people. With Positive Mental Attitude, failure is a learning experience, a rung on the ladder, a plateau at which to get your thoughts in order and prepare to try again.

The heart is great which shows moderation in the midst of prosperity.

Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check, but true sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one's soul.

There are few cases in which mere popularity should be considered a proper test of merit; but the case of song-writing is, I think, one of the few.

Honor means that a man is not exceptional; fame, that he is. Fame is something which must be won; honor, only something which must not be lost.

Learn from the past, set vivid, detailed goals for the future, and live in the only moment of time over which you have any control: now.

There will always be something to ruin our lives, it all depends on what or which finds us first. We are always ripe and ready to be taken.