Quotes of: President-kennedy Keyword

Japan never considers time together as time wasted. Rather, it is time invested.

A Lateral View: Essays on Culture and Style in Contemporary Japan

This chapter is an attempt to share with you some insights about story listening and how to do it.

Listening and Caring Skills in Ministry: A Guide for Groups and Leaders

Those occupying leadership roles who completely lack integrity are what we call 'Blind shepherds'. They are not really 'bad' leaders, because they are not leaders at all: they are misleaders.

The Leadership of Muhammad

There is the authority of position and the authority of knowledge - 'Authority flows from the one who knows.' But sharing in hardship confers upon a leader something quite rare - moral authority.

The Leadership of Muhammad

I read my eyes out and can't read half enough...the more one reads the more one sees we have to read.

Letters of John Adams, Addressed to His Wife

Life, faculties, production-in other words, individuality, liberty, property-this is man. And in spite of the cunning of artful political leaders, these three gifts from God precede all human legislation, and are superior to it.

The Law

A Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.

Letters of John Adams, Addressed to His Wife

Science is a form of arrogance control.

Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts

She tries to wear her pain on the inside. She always has. It’s the trademark of the oldest sibling, I think.

My Butterfly

Because I see A rainstorm in June Just before the sun The black of night Just before the stars And, girl, I see your ghost Just before our dawn

My Butterfly

I just want you to know that I love you with everything I am—a million times a million and to the moon and back.

My Butterfly

That vice has often proved an emancipator of the mind, is one of the most humiliating, but, at the same time, one of the most unquestionable facts in history.

The Map of Life, Conduct, and Character

The whole of language is a continuous process of metaphor, and the history of semantics is an aspect of the history of culture; language is at the same time a living thing and a museum of fossils of life and civilisations.

Selections from the Prison Notebooks

Self is the only oil that makes the chariot-wheels of the hypocrite move in all religious concerns.

The Secret Key to Heaven: The Vital Importance of Private Prayer

Times are not what they were, and we cannot be, either. If you sit and wish for what you want, you may not see it this side of the grave.

The Shadow Rising

I do not know if the people of the United States would vote for superior men if they ran for office, but there can be no doubt that such men do not run.

Tocqueville: Democracy in America

Opinamos que el hombre fuerte puede permitirse el lujo de ser amable, mientras que el dócil e inseguro de sí mismo tiene que fanfarronear para darse un poco de seguridad.

The Third Eye

A pure democracy is generally a very bad government, It is often the most tyrannical government on earth; for a multitude is often rash, and will not hear reason.

The Original Blue Back Speller

Nothing is easier than to admit in words the truth of the universal struggle for life, or more difficult--at least I have found it so--than constantly to bear this conclusion in mind.

The Origin of Species

Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.

The Portable John Adams

Human beings are not made to take shortcuts,... You're to live your life, moment by moment. Your life isn't here to entertain you - it's to be lived.

The Placebo Effect