J. C. Watts Quotes
... preliminary accounting, banking and surveying (known as arithmetic, algebra and geometry).
Wars based on principle are far more destructive... the attacker will not destroy that which he is after.
A Black man voting for the Republicans makes about as much sense as a chicken voting for Col. Sanders.
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.
What the devil is the point of surviving, going on living, when it's a drag? But you see, that's what people do.
To know that you are God is another way of saying that you feel completely one with this universe.
People aren't rational. We're not thinking machines, we're - we're feeling machines that happen to think.
Real travel requires a maximum of unscheduled wandering, for there is no other way of discovering surprises and marvels, which, as I see it, is the only good reason for not staying at home.
There's no such things as survival of the fittest. Survival of the most adequate, maybe. It doesn't matter whether a solution's optimal. All that matters is whether it beats the alternative.
When I was a kid I never learned to play. I actually got in bands through watching people play and copying them.
Being faced with too many options. I mean, it makes me feel as though I'm overwhelmed by too many possibilities; that can be a very vulnerable feeling because it's hard to make a decision.
Some might think that George W. Bush had his shortcomings, but let me tell you something - history's going to be kind to George W. Bush.
Serving in Congress has been more than an honor; it has been one of the most exhilarating experiences of my life ... It has been a wonderful ride. It has been a wonderful journey.
We need to remember that politics is all about people, not programs. We shouldn't want to take the humanness out of the political arena.
The most important thing is to keep creating and following my inklings as they come into being and acting on them.
The anitya doctrine is, again, not quite the simple assertion that the world is impermanent, but rather that the more one grasps at the world, the more it changes.
...mysticism and empiricism go together in opposition to scholasticism...they base themselves on the non-linear world of experience rather than the linear world of letters.
Buddhism has in it no idea of there being a moral law laid down by somekind of cosmic lawgiver.
We're so afraid of death in our culture, but I think if we understand it better, then we'll appreciate the life we have more.
It is obvious that the only interesting people are interested people, and to be completely interested is to have forgotten about "I".
We're all the same, we all think its better somewhere else; its better being older if you're younger - or its better being younger when we're older.
I love the soul that dares tread the temptations of his years beneath his youthful feet.
Just as money is not real, consumable wealth, books are not life. To idolize scriptures is like eating paper currency.
Nicole was always there with her door open, her arms open, her ears open - just what you need.
And it came to pass that in the hands of the ignorant, the words of the Bible were used to beat plowshares into swords
Running away from fear is fear; fighting pain is pain; trying to be brave is being scared
At times almost all of us envy the animals. They suffer and die, but do not seem to make a "problem" of it.
We are all as much extraordinary phenomena of nature as trees, clouds, the patterns in running water, the flickering of fire, the arrangement of the stars and the form of a galaxy.
Acquire a government over your ideas, that they may come down when they are called, and depart when they are bidden.
The greater part of human activity is designed to make permanent those experiences and joys which are only lovable because they are changing.
