Purity does not mean crushing the instincts but having the instincts as servants and not the master of the spirit.
Eric Liddell
Related
I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES You have to ignore risks, put your brain on hold and follow your instincts, even when your head insi...
DARREN SHAN In that way imagination and intelligence enter into our existence in the part of servants of the pri...
ALBERT EINSTEIN In that way imagination and intelligence enter into our existence in the part of servants of the pri...
ALBERT EINSTEIN Somebody once asked,how can I Love another? The reply he got was,do you love yourself? He replied ye...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Orion is above the horizon now, and near it Jupiter, brighter than it will ever be ... But i expect ...
THOMAS HARRIS Just because you believe something was true in the past does not mean it will be true in the future.
JEFFREY FRY All the normal people of the ages and generations that contribute to helping and doing their bit for...
GARY F EVANS... When you grow up there are things that you would love to do make your father proud is one and have f...
GARY F EVANS... Life is the everlasting gobstopper with its complications of the starter being birth, the main cours...
GARY F EVANS... The days of pioneering, of lassies in sunbonnets, and bears killed with axes in piney clearings, are...
SINCLAIR LEWIS She said 'Over my dead body!' so I took her at her word.
DIANA WYNNE JONES The end of the world is a strange concept. The world is always ending, and the end is always being a...
NEIL GAIMAN What is the Other?" they ask.
The Other is the one who taught me whatI should be like, but not ...
PAULO COELHO That's really sad," Beth said softly, "To have no one left.
R.J. SCOTT Look, my friends!' he called. 'Here's a pretty hobbit-skin to wrap an elven princeling in! If it wer...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN A true ethical culture reflects the better instincts of company leadership, and retaliation does the...
DONNA BOEHME Christ says: I know you through and through – I know everything about you. The very hairs of your ...
MOTHER TERESA Hail to you gods, on that day of the great reckoning. Behold me, I have come to you, without sin, wi...
THE BOOK OF THE DEAD When a man takes one step toward God, God takes more steps toward that man than there are sands in t...
THE WORK OF THE CHARIOT The collective unconscious consists of the sum of the instincts and their correlates, the archetypes...
CARL JUNG It does no good to run. And it does no good to hide. But I know what it's like. Your brain shuts dow...
MIKE CAREY We have tears in our eyes
As we wave our goodbyes,
We so loved being with you, we three. ROALD DAHL It was one of those situations where you have instincts as a reporter, and instincts as a human bein...
CLYDE HUGHES Christ for the world, for the world needs Christ!
ERIC LIDDELL Here was one with an air of high nobility such as Aragorn at times revealed, less high perhaps, yet ...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN I don't know if I have a favorite color.
KATE MIDDLETON It's very special having a new little girl.
KATE MIDDLETON Having mercy is an act of love and a gift of the Holy Spirit.
JAIME CONTRERAS She herself is a haunted house. She does not possess herself; her ancestors sometimes come and peer ...
ANGELA CARTER The profound ability to use aural and written language has enabled our species to collectively explo...
KATHERINE VUCICEVIC No, sweet one. See, my precious: if we has it, then we can escape, even from Him, eh? Perhaps we gro...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN The sky over Patusan was blood-red, immense, streaming like an open vein. An enormous sun nestled cr...
JOSEPH CONRAD Njeriu jeton jo vetëm jetën e vet personale, por, me vetëdije apo pa vetëdije edhe atë të epok...
THOMAS MANN The obscene and vulgar stories in the Bible are as repugnant to our ideas of the purity of a Divine ...
THOMAS PAINE There have been times when I've wavered. When I thought maybe I wanted to be normal. But the thing i...
VICTORIA SCHWAB The idea is to believe me... but as far as I see the world... to believe is a sin... to trust me one...
DEYTH BANGER It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Like all best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have to be seen to be believed.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have in sincerity pledged myself to your service, as so many of you are pledged to mine. Throughou...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I hope that tomorrow we can all, wherever we are, join in expressing our grief at Diana's loss, ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II The British constitution has always been puzzling and always will be.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but t...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II To what greater inspiration and counsel can we turn than to the imperishable truth to be found in th...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass; it is almost exactly 13 years since ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II First, I want to pay tribute to Diana myself. She was an exceptional and gifted human being. In good...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something e...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts an...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Grief is the price we pay for love.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II At its heart, engineering is about using science to find creative, practical solutions. It is a nobl...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II At Christmas, I am always struck by how the spirit of togetherness lies also at the heart of the Chr...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II For many, Christmas is also a time for coming together. But for others, service will come first.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses w...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your s...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Therefore I am sure that this, my Coronation, is not the symbol of a power and a splendor that are g...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the man...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Madam President, speaking here in Dublin Castle it is impossible to ignore the weight of history, as...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II These wretched babies don't come until they are ready.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I know of no single formula for success. But over the years I have observed that some attributes of ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II The events that I have attended to mark my Diamond Jubilee have been a humbling experience. It has t...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II In remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides, we recognise how precious is the peace ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II No one who knew Diana will ever forget her. Millions of others who never met her, but felt they knew...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have been aware all the time that my peoples, spread far and wide throughout every continent and o...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II The battle is not physical, it is spiritual and your mind is the battleground. Keep your mind pure a...
JEANETTE CORON My mother refused to let me fail. So I insisted.
WALKER PERCY How could we not? ... The Whitney for 70 years has followed the instincts of American artists.
MAXWELL L. ANDERSON We'll sort of get over the marriage first and then maybe look at the kids. But obviously we want...
PRINCE WILLIAM Family is the most important thing in the world.
PRINCESS DIANA You philosophers are lucky men. You write on paper and paper is patient. Unfortunate Empress that I ...
CATHERINE THE GREAT With the right help, children have a good chance of overcoming their issues while they are still you...
KATE MIDDLETON As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.
KING SOLOMON I don't mind a big fascinator. I think there is more scope for artwork in a fascinator rather th...
ZARA PHILLIPS I was always told from the hat-makers that you should have your hair up because it shows the hat mor...
ZARA PHILLIPS I don't think I'll still be riding at 40. There are a couple of people who are still riding ...
ZARA PHILLIPS My dad's not a big talker.
ZARA PHILLIPS My dad can be pretty critical sometimes.
ZARA PHILLIPS I'd love to have kids, but not at the moment.
ZARA PHILLIPS You cannot make horses 'safe.'
ZARA PHILLIPS Virtually everything that gets printed about me is wrong anyway, so it doesn't really matter wha...
ZARA PHILLIPS It's stupid to say that I don't like being in the public eye, but I don't like doing stu...
ZARA PHILLIPS I'm an affectionate person.
ZARA PHILLIPS People still text me to say that there is something about me in the paper, and what really annoys me...
ZARA PHILLIPS Sometimes people will come up in the street and say: 'My daughter loves you, will you sign an au...
ZARA PHILLIPS Taking part in an Olympics on home ground is something you dream about.
ZARA PHILLIPS My brother and I have been able to get on and have been very lucky to do things with our family that...
ZARA PHILLIPS I don't think about the media.
ZARA PHILLIPS I love the sport and being competitive.
ZARA PHILLIPS The horses are all characters, all personalities. Some you get along with, some you don't, some ...
ZARA PHILLIPS I hate having my picture taken.
ZARA PHILLIPS Unfortunately in sport it's either good or bad. You've got to take the highs and the lows.
ZARA PHILLIPS My mother is massively into sailing, so we always had Musto clothes, and it went on from there, real...
ZARA PHILLIPS The senior members of the royal family work very hard and I don't think people quite realise tha...
ZARA PHILLIPS In our sport you're very lucky to find a horse of a lifetime and I found mine relatively early. ...
ZARA PHILLIPS I don't have a stylist, and I do most of my shopping online, just because it's easier. I don...
ZARA PHILLIPS
More Eric Liddell
In the dust of defeat as well as the laurels of victory there is a glory to be found if one has done...
ERIC LIDDELL You will know as much of God, and only as much of God, as you are willing to put into practice.
ERIC LIDDELL We are all missionaries. Wherever we go we either bring people nearer to Christ or we repel them fro...
ERIC LIDDELL I believe God made me for a purpose, but he also made me fast!
And when I run I feel his pleas...
ERIC LIDDELL God made me fast. And when I run, I feel His pleasure.
ERIC LIDDELL Christ for the world, for the world needs Christ!
ERIC LIDDELL It has been a wonderful experience to compete in the Olympic Games and to bring home a gold medal. B...
ERIC LIDDELL The customer reaction to our newly launched products has been fantastic. We feel confident about how...
CHRIS LIDDELL This will be the first time since calendar year 1995 that we have had simultaneous launches of these...
CHRIS LIDDELL A lot of that inherent growth in Australia, and strength in the economy, has helped keep those housi...
CHRIS LIDDELL We remain confident in our growth prospects and have an exciting product line-up, which includes maj...
CHRIS LIDDELL We have decided to add investments in a number of areas, and they do add up. Investment today will d...
CHRIS LIDDELL We are not expecting the trend to significantly weaken from that, but expect that moderating number ...
CHRIS LIDDELL Our market share remains broadly where it was in the last few quarters, ... It's a monetization issu...
CHRIS LIDDELL We had sales of over NZ$1 billion for the last quarter -- the result of developing new businesses, m...
CHRIS LIDDELL confidence about the future performance of the company.
CHRIS LIDDELL We feel good about the quarter ahead and good about the year ahead,
CHRIS LIDDELL see more of a ramp-up throughout the course of the year.
CHRIS LIDDELL Our search advertising revenue has not been as strong as we'd like,
CHRIS LIDDELL We've had a good start to an important year for the company.
CHRIS LIDDELL The analysts were expecting more of a launch spike than we were,
CHRIS LIDDELL What you learn at university is a good discipline but has little relevance to a real job.
CHRIS LIDDELL We are pleased with the increasing pace of revenue growth throughout this fiscal year fueled by stro...
CHRIS LIDDELL I've always found diversity more interesting than specialisation. I like mixing it up across yea...
CHRIS LIDDELL We're still talking about Vista launching in the second half of this year, so no change there.
CHRIS LIDDELL He is taking steps to revoke the license of the owner of Moe D's.
LARRY LIDDELL The bullet just grazed Roberson's head. The theory is Roberson retaliated when the alleged shooting ...
LARRY LIDDELL We are confident we did everything in our power to find her.
LARRY LIDDELL Opposition to the truth is inevitable, especially if it takes the form of a new idea, but the degree...
B.H. LIDDELL HART Helplessness induces hopelessness, and history attests that loss of hope and not loss of lives is wh...
B.H. LIDDELL HART ...regrettable as it may seem to the idealist, the experience of history provides little warrant for...
B.H. LIDDELL HART Avoid self-righteousness like the devil- nothing is so self-blinding.
B.H. LIDDELL HART The profoundest truth of war is that the issue of battle is usually decided in the minds of the oppo...
B.H. LIDDELL HART The art of the indirect approach can only be mastered, and its full scope appreciated, by study of a...
B.H. LIDDELL HART In strategy the longest way round is often the shortest way there- a direct approach to the object e...
B.H. LIDDELL HART Universal peace-time conscription was adopted by almost all countries as the basis of their military...
B.H. LIDDELL HART In 1870, came the victory of the short-service troops of Prussia over the long-service troops of Fra...
B.H. LIDDELL HART Mechanized warfare still left room for human qualities to play an important part in the issue. ‘Au...
B.H. LIDDELL HART You've got to take care of business.
LEWIS LIDDELL SR The chief incalculable in war is the human will.
B. H. LIDDELL HART In reality, it si more fruitful to wound than to kill. While the dead man lies still, counting only ...
B. H. LIDDELL HART The search for the truth for truth's sake is the mark of the historian.
B. H. LIDDELL HART In should be the duty of every soldier to reflect on the experiences of the past, in the endeavor to...
B. H. LIDDELL HART Every action is seen to fall into one of three main categories, guarding, hitting, or moving. Here, ...
B. H. LIDDELL HART A complacent satisfaction with present knowledge is the chief bar to the pursuit of knowledge.
B. H. LIDDELL HART Helplessness induces hopelessness, and history attests that loss of hope and not loss of lives is wh...
B. H. LIDDELL HART Guerrilla war is a kind of war waged by the few but dependent on the support of many.
B. H. LIDDELL HART Loss of hope rather than loss of life is what decides the issues of war. But helplessness induces ho...
B. H. LIDDELL HART The search for the truth for truth's sake is the mark of the historian.
B. H. LIDDELL HART In reality, it is more fruitful to wound than to kill. While the dead man lies still, counting only ...
B. H. LIDDELL HART The search for the truth for truth's sake is the mark of the historian
B. H. LIDDELL HART Helplessness induces hopelessness, and history attests that loss of hope and not loss of lives is wh...
B. H. LIDDELL HART Guerrillas war is a kind of war waged by the few but dependent on the support of many
B. H. LIDDELL HART You constantly hear about voter fraud... but you don't see huge amounts of vote fraud out there.
ERIC HOLDER We must never stop fighting for a vision of American democracy in which we strive for and encourage ...
ERIC SCHNEIDERMAN Children are the keys of paradise.
ERIC HOFFER It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor.
ERIC HOFFER Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.
ERIC HOFFER Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy - the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and ...
ERIC HOFFER The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.
ERIC HOFFER It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to le...
ERIC HOFFER Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us...
ERIC HOFFER Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength.
ERIC HOFFER The beginning of thought is in disagreement - not only with others but also with ourselves.
ERIC HOFFER We feel free when we escape - even if it be but from the frying pan to the fire.
ERIC HOFFER We are least open to precise knowledge concerning the things we are most vehement about.
ERIC HOFFER One of the things I learned is that you've got to deal with the underlying social problems if yo...
ERIC HOLDER I've been hearing this since I first joined the Reds organization, that I'm going to be the ...
ERIC DAVIS I can understand why a single parent, working two jobs, would find it easier to stop at McDonald'...
ERIC SCHLOSSER Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achie...
ERIC BUTTERWORTH Consultant: any ordinary guy more than fifty miles from home.
ERIC SEVAREID If you sequence a cancerous tumor, you should be able to tailor the therapy according to the root ca...
ERIC TOPOL A brain scan may reveal the neural signs of anxiety, but a Kokoschka painting, or a Schiele self-por...
ERIC KANDEL I want to be remembered for my poop jokes. Those are the most important kind.
ERIC ANDRE A loser doesn't know what he'll do if he loses, but talks about what he'll do if he wins...
ERIC BERNE Google was founded to get information to everybody. A by-product of that strategy is that we invente...
ERIC SCHMIDT When someone makes a claim against the state, that person must legally verify that the facts in the ...
ERIC SCHNEIDERMAN Though this nation has proudly thought of itself as an ethnic melting pot, in things racial we have ...
ERIC HOLDER Television is a lot of fun. It's faster-paced. The schedule is really desirable, I guess. But as...
ERIC DANE It takes a lot of energy to be negative. You have to work at it. But smiling is painless. I'd ra...
ERIC DAVIS I like Velvet Underground, but I was never really hardcore into them. I like them, and I like Nico, ...
ERIC ANDRE If someone is too perfect they won't look good. Imperfection is important.
ERIC CANTONA I love cheese and biscuits, the stronger the better.
ERIC BRISTOW Why should citizenship be a matter of birth? The premise held by those who want to end birthright ci...
ERIC LIU I am a Buddhist, therefore I should not be collecting anything - however, I have a collection of Bud...
ERIC RIPERT First paying gig, I got 20 bucks. I played at some really weird venue. I don't remember the venu...
ERIC ANDRE Why my interest in writers? Well, I'm one, and many of my friends are writers. I know what it...
ERIC BROWN When Bryan Price taught me how to throw a changeup, he made me see myself. All my life, I've bee...
ERIC LIU I have two bowls of confidence for breakfast each morning.
ERIC BRISTOW If you are going to make a change, make it big and bold. Walk up to the biggest guy on the block, st...
ERIC SHINSEKI With breathtaking rapidity, we are destroying all that was lovely to look at and turning America int...
ERIC SEVAREID You know, you grow up with the image of John Travolta being super cool - 'Saturday Night Fever,&...
ERIC STOLTZ The nature of a society is largely determined by the direction in which talent and ambition flowby t...
ERIC HOFFER The compulsion to take ourselves seriously is in inverse proportion to our creative capacity. When t...
ERIC HOFFER How much easier is self-sacrifice than self-realization!
ERIC HOFFER There is probably an element of malice in the readiness to overestimate people; we are laying up for...
ERIC HOFFER It is loneliness that makes the loudest noise. This is as true of men as of dogs.
ERIC HOFFER I have a Tinder account. Now I've done Bumble, and I've tried this other one, and the way I ...
ERIC STONESTREET At Tenafly High, I was lucky to have some dedicated teachers; I'm especially indebted to my calc...
ERIC MASKIN If your goal is to make money, becoming an entrepreneur is a sucker's bet. Sure, some entreprene...
ERIC RIES All I ever wanted to do was get a great job on a TV show. When I read 'Modern Family' and st...
ERIC STONESTREET My wife is a real camper; it's a nice way to bond.
ERIC MCCORMACK Great businessmen are creators.
ERIC CANTONA I'll tell you one thing about me: I'm very private. I always have been private. People think...
ERIC DICKERSON Within that dream of working with your partner, you want to be able to separate and have a home life...
ERIC WINTER There is no greater country on Earth for entrepreneurship than America. In every category, from the ...
ERIC RIES If what I've been told is true - and I believe it is, General David Petraeus, a commander with s...
ERIC MASSA There are certain mutations you can find across cancers in different organs.
ERIC TOPOL There are estimates that 2 to 3 percent of cancers in the U.S. each year are engendered by exposure ...
ERIC TOPOL As with almost every significant aspect of the Bush presidency, its handling of 9/11 was a catastrop...
ERIC ALTERMAN I am, and always will be, a blues guitarist.
ERIC CLAPTON With vocal and choral music, first and foremost, it's the text. Not only do I need to serve the ...
ERIC WHITACRE There's a roots nature to Appalachia - the origins of folk and bluegrass. I know guys there who ...
ERIC CHURCH A soul that is reluctant to share does not as a rule have much of its own. Miserliness is here a sym...
ERIC HOFFER There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other.
ERIC HOFFER Marriage has for women many equivalents of joining a mass movement. It offers them a new purpose in ...
ERIC HOFFER The individual's most vital need is to prove his worth, and this usually means an insatiable hunger ...
ERIC HOFFER Sharks have been swimming the oceans unchallenged for thousands of years; chances are, the species t...
ERIC GELMAN Lightning is the shorthand of a storm, and tells of chaos.
ERIC MACKAY The Boomers will eventually have to accept that it is not possible to stay forever young or to stop ...
ERIC LIU When a bank calls in a loan, it obviously hurts the customer in question. But it also adversely affe...
ERIC MASKIN It is a talent of the weak to persuade themselves that they suffer for something when they suffer f...
ERIC HOFFER Mass is resistance to motion.
ERIC PARSLOW One of the keys to wealth is to understand why & how the distance from 1 to 1 million is greater tha...
ERIC PARSLOW The individual who has to justify his existence by his own efforts is in eternal bondage to himself.
ERIC HOFFER Men weary as much of not doing the things they want to do as of doing the things they do not want to...
ERIC HOFFER Whether it is an attempt to bomb the New York City subway system, an attempt to bring down an airpla...
ERIC HOLDER 'The Simpsons' is like Charlie Parker or Marlon Brando or Richard Pryor: Comedy couldn't...
ERIC ANDRE The greatest weariness comes from work not done.
ERIC HOFFER Anything and everything, physical or otherwise, is defined by its absence.
ERIC PARSLOW Life is the dynamic, creative edge of reality.
ERIC PARSLOW Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind. -Eric Hoffer.
ERIC HOFFER The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they follow. Bigness means weakness.
ERIC SEVAREID The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they allow. Bigness means weakness.
ERIC SEVAREID One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of...
ERIC HOFFER The link between ideas and action is rarely direct. There is almost always an intermediate step in w...
ERIC HOFFER Remembering is something God asks us to do over �...
ERIC IRIVUZUMUGABE Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.
ERIC HOFFER The most gifted members of the human species are at their creative best when they cannot have their ...
ERIC HOFFER The technique of a mass movement aims to infect people with a malady and then offer the movement as ...
ERIC HOFFER Laughter to begin with was probably glee at the misfortunes of others. The baring of the teeth in l...
ERIC HOFFER Crude absurdities, trivial nonsense, and sublime truths are equally potent in readying people for se...
ERIC HOFFER Lack of sensitivity is perhaps basically an unawareness of ourselves.
ERIC HOFFER Language was invented to ask questions. Answers may be given by grunts and gestures, but questions ...
ERIC HOFFER The fact is that up to now a free society has not been good for the intellectual. It has neither ac...
ERIC HOFFER As I railed on and on, I became increasingly energied and excited by my own misery and misanthropy u...
ERIC WEINER For the skeptic there remains only one consolation: if there should be such a thing as superhuman ...
ERIC AMBLER Geniuses are always marginalized to one degree or another. Someone wholly invested in the status quo...
ERIC WEINER It's my duty as a human being to be pissed off
ERIC BOGOSIAN I know what I want to hear. I want to hear the "Believe it or Not" song. I want to play that shit lo...
ERIC SPITZNAGEL The chief cause of problems is solutions.
ERIC SEVAREID When we believe ourselves in possession of the only truth, we are likely to be indifferent to common...
ERIC HOFFER Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many. The resentment of the weak does not spring...
ERIC HOFFER Our sense of power is more vivid when we break a man's spirit than when we win his heart. For we can...
ERIC HOFFER Freedom means freedom from forces and circumstances which would turn man into a thing, which would i...
ERIC HOFFER To the excessively fearful the chief characteristic of power is its arbitrariness. Man had to gain e...
ERIC HOFFER For what it’s worth: it’s never too late or, in my case, too early to be whoever you want to be....
ERIC ROTH The moment a little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow, he can no longer se...
ERIC BERNE It is a well known fact that Abraham Lincoln spent much of his spare time visiting wounded soldiers ...
ERIC FONER Life doesn't make any sense, and we all pretend it does. Comedy's job is to point out that it doesn'...
ERIC IDLE Nationalist pride, like other variants of pride, can be a substitute for self-respect.
ERIC HOFFER It is the stretched soul that makes music, and souls are stretched by the pull of opposites --opposi...
ERIC HOFFER There is in most passions a shrinking away from ourselves. The passionate pursuer has all the earmar...
ERIC HOFFER The passion to get ahead is sometimes born of the fear lest we be left behind.
ERIC HOFFER It sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.
ERIC HOFFER It still holds true that man is most uniquely human when he turns obstacles into opportunities.
ERIC HOFFER It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor.
ERIC HOFFER Nature is a self-made machine, more perfectly automated than any automated machine. To create someth...
ERIC HOFFER Lightning is the shorthand of a storm, and tells of chaos.
ERIC MACKAY The real persuaders are our appetites, our fears and above all our vanity. The skillful propagandist...
ERIC HOFFER It is the individual only who is timeless. Societies, cultures, and civilizations -- past and presen...
ERIC HOFFER Naivete in grownups is often charming; but when coupled with vanity it is indistinguishable from stu...
ERIC HOFFER An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anyth...
ERIC HOFFER Self-esteem and self-contempt have specific odors; they can be smelled.
ERIC HOFFER No matter what our achievements might be, we think well of ourselves only in rare moments. We need p...
ERIC HOFFER One of the best things to do sometimes is simply to be.
ERIC BUTTERWORTH The remarkable thing is that it is the crowded life that is most easily remembered. A life full of t...
ERIC HOFFER In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find them...
ERIC HOFFER I loved learning, it was school I hated. I used to cut school to go learn something.
ERIC JENSEN It would be difficult to exaggerate the degree to which we are influenced by those we influence.
ERIC HOFFER Animals often strike us as passionate machines.
ERIC HOFFER The superficiality of the American is the result of his hustling. It needs leisure to think things o...
ERIC HOFFER The less justified a man is in claiming excellence for his own self, the more ready he is to claim a...
ERIC HOFFER We do not really feel grateful toward those who make our dreams come true; they ruin our dreams.
ERIC HOFFER You've got to create a dream. You've got to uphold the dream. If you can't, go back to the factory o...
ERIC BURDON If you think you can do it, you can.
ERIC LINDROS Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy -- the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and...
ERIC HOFFER Our credulity is greatest concerning the things we know least about. And since we know least about o...
ERIC HOFFER The effectiveness of a doctrine does not come from its meaning but from its certitude. No doctrine h...
ERIC HOFFER Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.
GOLNIK ERIC We don't change what we are, we change what we think what we are.
ERIC BUTTERWORTH A grievance is most poignant when almost redressed.
ERIC HOFFER There is perhaps no more reliable indicator of a society's ripeness for a mass movement than the pre...
ERIC HOFFER The self-styled intellectual who is impotent with pen and ink hungers to write history with sword an...
ERIC HOFFER We can never really be prepared for that which is wholly new. We have to adjust ourselves, and every...
ERIC HOFFER Competing with an other is exhilarating, challenging, and healthy. That is what Games are for. When...
ERIC PARSLOW A successful social technique consists perhaps in finding unobjectionable means for individual self-...
ERIC HOFFER Absence of communication between necessarily linked parties ensures eventual conflict.
ERIC PARSLOW The notion of implied meaning is the root of misunderstanding.
ERIC PARSLOW To spell out the obvious is often to call it in question.
ERIC HOFFER