Jim Moriarty > Jim's Quotes

“When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.”
― Thomas Jefferson

“A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths.”
― Aleksander Pushkin

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“Sleep is good, he said, and books are better.”
― George R. R. Martin

“Ringo: 'I had no schooling before I joined The Beatles and no schooling after The Beatles. Life is a great education.”
― Ringo Starr, The Beatles Anthology

“George: 'Ringo would always say grammmatically incorrect phrases and we'd all laugh. I remember when we were driving back to Liverpool from Luton up the M1 motorway in Ringo's Zephyr, and the car's bonnet hadn't been latched properly. The wind got under it and blew it up in front of the windscreen. We were all shouting, 'Aaaargh!' and Ringo calmly said, 'Don't worry, I'll soon have you back in your safely-beds.”
― George Harrison, The Beatles Anthology

“Today, no less than five Supreme Court justices are on record, either through their opinions or speeches (or both), that they will consult foreign law and foreign-court rulings for guidance in certain circumstances. Of course, policymakers are free to consult whatever they want, but not justices. They're limited to the Constitution and the law.”
― Mark R. Levin

“There is no dignity when the human dimension is eliminated from the person. In short, the problem with pornography is not that it shows too much of the person, but that it shows far too little.”
― Pope John Paul II

“In porn, men give blow jobs like they love men. Women give blow jobs like they love the camera.”
― Fierce Dolan

“Every problem is an opportunity in disguise.”
― John Adams

“A government of laws, and not of men”
― John Adams

“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
― Mark Twain

“The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

“If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.”
― Virginia Woolf

“Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.”
― Winston S. Churchill

“Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life; dream of it; think of it; live on that idea. Let the brain, the body, muscles, nerves, every part of your body be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success, and this is the way great spiritual giants are produced.”
― Swami Vivekananda, Vedanta Philosophy: Lectures by the Swami Vivekananda on Raja Yoga Also Pantanjali's Yoga Aphorisms, with Commentaries, and Glossary of Sanskrit Terms

“In a day, when you don't come across any problems - you can be sure that you are travelling in a wrong path”
― Vivekananda

“The great secret of true success, of true happiness, is this: the man or woman who asks for no return, the perfectly unselfish person, is the most successful.”
― Vivekananda

“The greatest religion is to be true to your own nature. Have faith in yourselves.”
― Vivekananda

“The greatest sin is to think yourself weak”
― Vivekananda

“Anything that makes weak - physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison.”
― Vivekananda

“Arise, awake, stop not till the goal is reached.”
― Vivekananda, Meditation and Its Methods : According to Swami Vivekananda + Fear Not Be Strong + Personality Development + Powers of the Mind

“You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.”
― Vivekananda

“Neither seek nor avoid, take what comes.”
― Vivekananda

“Comfort is no test of truth. Truth is often far from being comfortable.”
― Vivekananda

“Learn Everything that is Good from Others, but bring it in, and in your own way absorb it; do not become others.”
― Vivekananda

“Each work has to pass through these stages—ridicule, opposition, and then acceptance. Those who think ahead of their time are sure to be misunderstood.”
― Swami Vivekananda

“A fool may buy all the books in the world, and they will be in his library; but he will be able to read only those that he deserves to.”
― Swami Vivekananda, Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda, 9 Vols.

“No force on earth can stop an idea whose time has come”
― Victor Hugo

“You can kill a man but you cant kill a idea.”
― Sophocles