J. Sterling Quotes
A sailing ship is no democracy; you don't caucus a crew as to where you'll go anymore than you inquire when they'd like to shorten sail.
To be truly challenging, a voyage, like a life, must rest on a firm foundation of financial unrest.
Obsolescence and death, the reign of the archaic, the abandoned, and the corny: Really, if you saw Windows 3.0 on the sidewalk outside the building, would you bend over and pick it up?!?
Building a successful life is much like building anything else: it should be thoroughly thought about in advance and then carried through to completion.
Arbor Day is not like other holidays. Each of those reposes on the past, while Arbor Day proposes for the future.
That's one problem I have. Jews when they get successful they will help their people and some of the African-Americans - maybe I'll get in trouble again - they don't want to help anybody.
It's good way to relax when I come home from the road. When you're out there on the tractor there's nobody to bother you.
Punctuality is closely related to faithfulness and dependability. Being tardy can be linked to uninterest, apathy, slothfulness and procrastination.
Pain has its own noble joy, when it starts a strong consciousness of life, from a stagnant one.
People are starting to understand the other side's perspective and that's where empathy can sort of begin - once you quit judging other people but just understand where they're coming from.
All temptations can be handled easily when we know how, because no temptation is a temptation at all unless we are entertaining it.
I was once a student in a punk T-Shirt hooked on screwed-up scenarios. Thats how I became the esteemed cultural figure that I am today.
Don't become a well rounded person. Well rounded people are smooth and ull. Become a thoroughly spiky person.
After Richmond, we went to Dover and tested that week at Kentucky. I was going to Dover and we had to get the trainer to meet us at the airport. I had to do some therapy on my ribs they hurt so bad.
One of the points about distractions is that everything that they do is destabilizing.
It is a great paradox - almost everyone wants to improve his circumstances but almost no one wants to improve himself.
Each generation of humanity takes the earth as trustees... We ought to bequeath to posterity as many forests and orchards as we have exhausted and consumed.
Those who wallow around in the sickness of their immorality and degeneracy get very little joy out of life here and certainly not much promise is held out for them hereafter.
Perhaps punctuality is a quality made even more valuable because it is found in so few people. Punctuality is not usually thought of in our day as a major virtue.
Satan has no power over us except as we give it to him. God never forces us to do right, and Satan has no power to force us to do wrong.
The worst education which teaches self-denial, is better than the best which teaches everything else, and not that.
We've seen many Black men lose their life over the past couple of years. Not only just heard about it.
We insist on near perfection in everyone except ourselves. But if our course is questioned we become offended.
Enthusiasm is grave, inward, self-controlled; mere excitement, outward, fantastic, hysterical, and passing in a moment from tears to laughter.
We've been like that all season. They're starting to have the vision I've been asking them to have for a while. Our settled, normal offense stuff, we need to work on that.
Let him who is worthy by reason of his clear eye and unjaded heart wander across these borders of beauty and mystery and be glad.
There's is not enough money in Hollywood to lure me into making another picture with Joan Crawford. And I like money.
Privacy under what circumstance? Privacy at home under what circumstances? You have more privacy if everyone's illiterate, but you wouldn't really call that privacy. That's ignorance.
Everybody wants to disown neocon strategy, including the neocons, because that strategy never worked. Still, it was, in point of fact, a strategy. Nobody else has one.
I feel safe when I'm on the racetrack, I really do. I know that I'm surrounded by the best drivers in the world. That's something you can't say when you're driving down the interstate.
If I were asked to give the best idea of which I am capable, it would be that we should get out of the junk business and then start laying up treasures in heaven.
I don't think there's much distinction between surveillance and media in general. Better media means better surveillance. Cams are everywhere.
You should always have 2 books...the one you're reading and the one you're writing.
Faith in a better than that which appears is no less required by art than by religion.
The cultivation of trees is the cultivation of the good, the beautiful and the ennobling in man.
Emotion turning back on itself, and not leading on to thought or action, is the element of madness.
I haven't had that good a time in ages. Since September 11, really. I just felt so happy, it was like the sun came out of the clouds for me. I love Italy.
That's about the 1000th and tenth time (I've been asked about my neck). It's OK. I'm been doing a little stuff. I got some stuff from UT, weights to build you back up.
If politics and business fail us, of course the military will be called in. In the developing world, the massive and repeated ecological disasters are quite commonly met by the military.
