- seeking direction in Truth, Goodness and Beauty
Favorite Quotes Gallery
- seeking direction in Truth, Goodness and Beauty
Favorite Quotes Gallery
beauty
"There is nothing ugly; I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may, - light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful."
- John Constable
(1776 - 1837), English landscape painter
courage
"The only thing needed for evil to prosper
is for good men to do nothing."
- Edmund Burke
(1729-1797)
"ATTRIBUTION: Attributed to EDMUND BURKE, but never found in his works. It may be a paraphrase of Burke's view that 'When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.' (Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents - Vol. i. p. 526, April 23, 1770).-Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 15th ed., p. ix (1980)."
http://www.blupete.com/Literature/Biographies/Philosophy/Burke.htm
http://yahooligans.yahoo.com/reference/encyclopedia/entry?id=7597
"That it was always himself
that the coward abandoned first.
After this all other betrayals came easily."
"That night I thought long about what must become of me. I wanted very much to be a person of value and I had to ask myself how this could be possible if there were not something like a soul or like a spirit that is in the life of a person and which could endure any misfortune or disfigurement and yet be no less for it. If one were to be a person of value that value could not be a condition subject to hazards of fortune. It had to be a quality that could not change. Long before morning I knew that what I was seeking to discover was a thing I'd always known. That all courage was a form of constancy. That it was always himself that the coward abandoned first. After this all other betrayals came easily." - Dona Alfonsa
Dona Alfonsa confides in John Grady - her story of the unrequited love of her life and how his tears for her soul transformed her.
All The Pretty Horses
by Cormac McCarthy
The film, directed by Billy Bob Thornton and staring Matt Damon, was beautifully faithful to the novel - http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0149624
leadership
"All of the great leaders
have had one characteristic in common:
it was the willingness to confront unequivocally
the major anxiety of their people in their time.
This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership."
John Kenneth Galbraith (b. 1908),
U.S. economist. The Age of Uncertainty, ch. 12 (1977).
seeking
" . . . many people are actually trapped on the surface of their lives."
- Steve Marshall
(or is it Joel Biroco - or is that a pen name - from his "Kaos" writings?)
www.biroco.com/journal2/alone
"Whether in the pastoral joys of country life or in the labyrinthine city, we Americans are always seeking. We wander, question. But the answer waits in each separate heart - - the answer of our own identity and the way by which we can master loneliness and feel that at last we belong."
From Carson McCullers - author of The heart is a lonely hunter.
( 1917-1967 )
technology
"Freedom rises on the wings of technology."
- Boeing (2003)-
virtue
"In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone."
John Kenneth Galbraith (b. 1908),
U.S. economist. Guardian (London, July 28, 1989)
"I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge,
that myth is more potent than history.
I believe that dreams are more powerful than facts -
that hope always triumphs over experience -
that laughter is the only cure for grief.
And I believe that love is stronger than death"
I, initially, was led to believe that this quote was from the movie: The Crow - according to www.great-quotes.com . This placed me on a path down memory lane to revisit the tragic story of Brandon Lee and his film "The Crow".
But, further research actually attributes this quote to the writings of Robert Fulghum ("All I really need to know about how to live and what to do and how to be I learned in kindergarten.") - www.quoteworld.org .
I can certainly see Fulghum's overly simplistic, idealistic concept coming thru this month's quote. Still, I find the romantic "Don Quixote" approach appealing.
Fulghum's writings are quite a departure from the dark, brutal film that "great-quotes" attributes the quote to. A second search at "great-quotes" results in both "The Crow" and Robert Fulghum being the author.
I'm going with "quoteworld" - Robert Fulghum authored the quote.
Whether or not it is "quoted" in the film or comic/graphic novel, "The Crow" - remains to be determined.
"It is hard for an empty sack to stand upright."
- "In 1732 I first published my Almanac, under the name of Richard Saunders; it was continued by me about twenty-five years, commonly called Poor Richard's Almanac. I endeavoured to make it both entertaining and useful, and it accordingly came to be in such demand that I reaped considerable profit from it, vending annually near ten thousand. And observing that it was generally read, scarce any neighborhood in the province being without it, I considered it as a proper vehicle for conveying instruction among the common people, who bought scarce any other books. I therefore filled all the little spaces that occurred between the remarkable days in the calendar with proverbial sentences, chiefly such as inculcated industry and frugality as the means of procuring wealth and thereby securing virtue - it being more difficult for a man in want to act always honestly, as (to use here one of those proverbs) "it is hard for an empty sack to stand upright." These proverbs, which contained the wisdom of many ages and nations, I assembled and formed into a connected discourse prefixed to the Almanac of 1757, as the harangue of a wise old man to the people attending an auction. The bringing all these scattered counsels thus in a focus enable them to make greater impression. The piece, being universally approved, was copied in all the newspapers of the Continent, reprinted in Britain on a broadside to be stuck up in houses, two translations were made of it in French, and great numbers bought by the clergy and gentry to distribute gratis among their poor parishioners and tenants. In Pennsylvania, as it discouraged useless expence in foreign superfluities, some thought it had its share of influence in producing that growing plenty of money which was observable for several years after its publication."
- An excerpt from Benjamin Franklin's "autobiography"
http://eserver.org/books/franklin/
http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap2/franklin.html
war
"War should be carried on like a monsoon; one changeless determination of every particle towards the one unalterable aim."
- Herman Melville
(1819-1891), U.S. author. Israel Potter (1855), ch. 10, The Writings of Herman Melville, vol. 8, eds. Harrison Hayford, Hershel Parker, and G. Thomas Tanselle (1982).
"A 'just war' is hospitable to every self-deception on the part of those waging it, none more than the certainty of virtue, under whose shelter every abomination can be committed with a clear conscience."
- Alexander Cockburn
(b. 1941), Anglo-Irish journalist. New Statesman and Society (London, Feb. 8, 1991).
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