Quotes of: Wright-brothers Keyword

Man needed to dream. Yes, he needed to believe in illusions, to aspire to something more than the miserable, hostile life that suffocated him.

The Map of the Sky

Darnley, who, like Banquo's ghost, seemed to play a much more effective part in Scottish politics once he was dead than when he was alive.

Mary Queen of Scots

Merrick belonged to that class of reader who was able to forget with amazing ease the hand moving the characters behind the scenes of the novel.

The Map of Time

The life of faith is not a life of mounting up with wings, but a life of walking and not fainting.

My Utmost for His Highest: Selections for the Year

Branch Rickey once said of me that I was a man with an infinite capacity for immediately making a bad thing worse.

Nice Guys Finish Last

It isn’t about being at the same school or the same town or even the same room. It’s about being together. Love is a choice you make.

Night Road

If you want to be proud of yourself, then do things in which you can take pride

Neurosis and Human Growth: The Struggle Towards Self-Realization

Scepticism is never certain of itself, being less a firm intellectual position than a pose to justify bad behavior.

Life of Christ

Skeptics always want miracles such as stepping down from the Cross, but never the greater miracle of forgiveness.

Life of Christ

The family tree of earthly ancestors was really not important; what was important was the family tree of the children of God He planted on Calvary.

Life of Christ

Broadmindedness, when it means indifference to right and wrong, eventually ends in a hatred of what is right.

Life of Christ

The rich can afford to be progressive. Poor people have reason to be afraid of the future.

Lake Wobegon Days

How are you doing, son?" "If you don't get started, I'll rip out your heart and have it for breakfast." - Michael to Solo

Last Kiss Goodnight

A man and wife should see the best in each other, should work together, should enjoy each other.

Last Kiss Goodnight

In the practice of exchanging self & other, paradoxes abound.

Love Your Enemies: How to Break the Anger Habit & Be a Whole Lot Happier

Anger spoils relationships where there should be great reciprocity.

Love Your Enemies: How to Break the Anger Habit & Be a Whole Lot Happier

Buddha first taught metta meditation as an antidote: as a way of surmounting terrible fear when it arises.

Lovingkindness: The Revolutionary Art of Happiness

By practicing meditation we establish love, compassion, sympathetic joy & equanimity as our home.

Lovingkindness: The Revolutionary Art of Happiness

Fearful of wasting a second, we hoard time as if it were money.

Love Your Enemies: How to Break the Anger Habit & Be a Whole Lot Happier

To reteach a thing its loveliness is the nature of metta. Through lovingkindness, everyone & everything can flower again from within.

Lovingkindness: The Revolutionary Art of Happiness

Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.

Lost Rights: The Destruction of American Liberty