It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its o...
W. R. INGE Adaptability: A wise man adapts himself to circumstances as water shapes itself to the vessel that c...
W. R. INGE The nations which have put mankind and posterity most in their debt have been small states Israel, A...
W. R. INGE Theater is, of course, a reflection of life. Maybe we have to improve life before we can hope to imp...
W. R. INGE The church is only a secular institution in which the half-educated speak to the half-converted
W. R. INGE There are two kinds of fools: one says, "This is old, therefore it is good"; the other says, "This i...
W. R. INGE Many people believe that they are attracted by God or by nature, when they are only repelled by man.
W. R. INGE To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosophy
W. R. INGE Christianity promises to make men free; it never promises to make them independent.
W. R. INGE Worry is interest paid on trouble before it comes due.
W. R. INGE Public opinion, a vulgar, impertinent, anonymous tyrant who deliberately makes life unpleasant for a...
W. R. INGE Experience proves that none is so cruel as the disillusioned sentimentalist
W. R. INGE Worry is interest paid on trouble before it falls due
W. R. INGE Events in the past may be roughly divided into those which probably never happened and those which d...
W. R. INGE The soul is dyed by the color of its leisure hours
W. R. INGE It is becoming impossible for those who mix with their fellow men to believe that the grace of God i...
W. R. INGE Consciousness is a phase of mental life which arises in connection with the formation of new habits....
W. R. INGE It takes in reality only one to make a quarrel. It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in f...
W. R. INGE We must cut our coat according to our cloth, and adapt ourselves to changing circumstances
W. R. INGE The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they a...
W. R. INGE We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and fe...
W. R. INGE Originality, I fear, is too often only undetected and frequently unconscious plagiarism
W. R. INGE The command "Be fruitful and multiply" was promulgated according to our authorities, when the popula...
W. R. INGE A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours...
W. R. INGE The vulgar mind always mistakes the exceptional for the important.
W. R. INGE Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art.
W. R. INGE The whole of nature, as has been said, is a conjugation of the verb to eat, in the active and passiv...
W. R. INGE Nobody is bored when he is trying to make something that is beautiful or to discover something that ...
W. R. INGE We are distressed because our churches are half empty; and many of them would be emptier if the Gosp...
W. R. INGE It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own...
W. R. INGE Civilization is being poisoned by its own waste products
W. R. INGE No Christian can be a pessimist, for Christianity is a system of radical optimism.
W. R. INGE Originality is undetected plagiarism.
W. R. INGE I have never understood why it should be considered derogatory to the Creator to suppose that he has...
W. R. INGE Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mea...
W. R. INGE It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism while the wolf remains of ...
W. R. INGE Consciousness is a phase of mental life which arises in connection with the formation of new habits....
W. R. [WILLIAM RALPH] INGE How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret m...
W. R. [WILLIAM RALPH] INGE In dealing with Englishmen you can be sure of one thing only, that the logical solution will not be ...
W. R. [WILLIAM RALPH] INGE Public opinion, a vulgar, impertinent, anonymous tyrant who deliberately makes life unpleasant for a...
W. R. [WILLIAM RALPH] INGE It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of...
W. R. [WILLIAM RALPH] INGE We tolerate shapes in human beings that would horrify us if we saw them in a horse.
W. R. [WILLIAM RALPH] INGE Literature flourishes best when it is half trade and half an art.
W. R. [WILLIAM RALPH] INGE There are two kinds of fools: One says, This is old therefore it is good. The other one says, This i...
W. R. [WILLIAM RALPH] INGE Let us remember, when we are inclined to be disheartened, that the private soldier is a poor judge o...
W. R. [WILLIAM RALPH] INGE What is originality? Undetected plagiarism.
W. R. [WILLIAM RALPH] INGE Worry is interest paid on trouble before it falls due.
W. R. [WILLIAM RALPH] INGE There is no law of progress. Our future is in our own hands, to make or to mar. It will be an uphill...
W. R. [WILLIAM RALPH] INGE A man may build himself a throne of bayonets, but he can't sit on it.
W. R. [WILLIAM RALPH] INGE The happy people are those who are producing something; the bored people are those who are consuming...
W. R. [WILLIAM RALPH] INGE There are no rewards or punishments -- only consequences.
W. R. [WILLIAM RALPH] INGE To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosophy.
W. R. [WILLIAM RALPH] INGE Every institution not only carries within it the seeds of its own dissolution, but prepares the way ...
W. R. [WILLIAM RALPH] INGE Whoever marries the spirit of this age will find himself a widower in the next.
W. R. [WILLIAM RALPH] INGE I think middle-age is the best time, if we can escape the fatty degeneration of the conscience which...
W. R. [WILLIAM RALPH] INGE It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own...
W. R. [WILLIAM RALPH] INGE Joy was characteristic of the Christian community so long as it was growing, expanding, and creating...
WILLIAM R. INGE A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours...
WILLIAM R. INGE The aim of education is the knowledge not of fact, but of values.
DEAN WILLIAM R. INGE A nation is a society united by a delusion about it's ancestry and by common hatred of it's neighbo...
DEAN WILLIAM R. INGE A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbors.
DEAN WILLIAM R. INGE Any solution to a problem changes the problem.
R. W. JOHNSON We are decent 99 percent of the time, when we could easily be vile.
R. W. RIIS We ask God to forgive us for our evil thoughts and evil temper, but rarely, if ever ask Him to forgi...
R. W. DALE The real truth is that while He came to preach the gospel, His chief object in coming was that there...
R. W. DALE In the advance of civilization, it is new knowledge which paves the way, and the pavement is eternal...
W. R. WHITNEY Mathematicians stand on each other's shoulders while computer scientists stand on each other's toes.
R. W. HAMMING There resides in the definition of "humanity" the need to be something more than flesh and blood.
W. R. FUCHS Feast of Mary Magdalen, Apostle to the Apostles When our lives are focused on God, awe and wonder...
R. W. DALE Commemoration of Bridget of Sweden, Abbess of Vadstena, 1373 Christ came, not so much to preach ...
R. W. DALE Here in His holy House of Prayer we may come on our day of rest, and be safe, if we will, from any t...
R. W. CHURCH God has set in the midst of you, as the ever present witness and figure of heaven, His holy House of...
R. W. CHURCH Even as she began to slip into the gloaming of her life, the primal need to live…to survive...claw...
R. W. PATTERSON Inside, a deep-rooted force raged, buried in her psyche from eons before, percolating with a primord...
R. W. PATTERSON She wanted to freeze the hands of time. Wanted to revisit, revise and rewrite the past…edit out th...
R. W. PATTERSON What we share between us is powerful. It consumes and burns brightly, love. When we—if we—consum...
R. W. PATTERSON Death had marked his family with unbreakable black halos, until only two remained.
R. W. PATTERSON Somehow everything always came down to time, she realized with perfect lucidity. There was either to...
R. W. PATTERSON Gambling is a disease of barbarians superficially civilized.
DEAN INGE Oh, yes. I'm terribly smart. Wouldn't it have been nice... to be intelligent?
WILLIAM INGE I been talkin' with my buddy, and he thinks I'm virgin enough fer the two of us.
WILLIAM INGE Bereavement is the deepest initiation into the mysteries of human life, an initiation more searching...
DEAN INGE Bereavement is the sharpest challenge to our trust in God; if faith can overcome this, there is no m...
DEAN INGE Maybe they've just got the itch when it comes to Tigers pitching. I can't figure it out. I'm waiting...
BRANDON INGE They gave him a standing O (ovation) when he went out onto the field the next inning.
BRANDON INGE We have a different agenda this year, and it's not harping on negatives. That starts with the skippe...
BRANDON INGE I think it's great. I'm glad they're cleaning up the sport. I don't like it that anything can be tai...
BRANDON INGE I would rather have that ball had hit me in the face and stayed in the infield.
BRANDON INGE I think his swing looks like it did a couple years ago. He'd make a whole lot of noise when he hit t...
BRANDON INGE It's not the same fastball he used to throw. But he's smart enough to mix 'em up.
BRANDON INGE I was battling absolutely as hard as I could. A pitcher would rather have a rocket hit off him than ...
BRANDON INGE Last year and the year prior, it was so uptight. This year, we need to do something different. This ...
BRANDON INGE It's all a matter of confidence. I think it took us taking two out of three against Boston (last wee...
BRANDON INGE Democracy is only an experiment in government, and it has the obvious disadvantage of merely countin...
DEAN INGE Let none of us delude himself by supposing that honesty is always the best policy. It is not.
DEAN INGE The soul is dyed with the color of its leisure thoughts.
DEAN INGE What is originality? Undetected plagiarism.
DEAN INGE A cat can be trusted to purr when she is pleased, which is more than can be said for human beings.
DEAN INGE A good government remains the greatest of human blessings and no nation has ever enjoyed it.
DEAN INGE Love remembered and consecrated by grief belongs, more clearly than the happy intercourse of friends...
DEAN INGE Faith always contains an element of risk, of venture; and we are impelled to make the venture by the...
DEAN INGE Anyone who gives up is worthless.
BRANDON INGE The soul is dyed with the color of its leisure thoughts
DEAN INGE Tonight, it looked like a fastball, ... and as soon as you swung, the bottom dropped out of it.
BRANDON INGE I have no fear that the candle lighted in Palestine years ago will ever be put out.
DEAN INGE It was said that Mr. Gladstone could persuade most people of most things, and himself of anything.
DEAN INGE God does not always punish a nation by sending it adversity. More often He gives the oppressors thei...
DEAN INGE There is no law of progress. Our future is in our own hands, to make or to mar. It will be an uphill...
DEAN INGE When our first parents were driven out of Paradise, Adam is believed to have remarked to Eve: "My de...
DEAN INGE The proper time to influence the character of a child is about a hundred years before he is born
DEAN INGE It is a suspected case, the diagnosis of bird flu is not confirmed for the moment.
INGE YOORIS All faith consists essentially in the recognition of a world of spiritual values behind, yet not apa...
DEAN INGE He had the best slider I've seen him have in four years. It looked like a fastball before you swung,...
BRANDON INGE What can I say,
BRANDON INGE Nothing impresses me anymore with him. He's shown me everything. He's a stud.
BRANDON INGE Religion is a way of walking, not a way of talking.
DEAN INGE Admiration for ourselves and our institutions is too often measured by our contempt and dislike for ...
DEAN INGE The belief in progress, not as an ideal but as an indisputable fact, not as a task for humanity but ...
DEAN INGE The happy people are those who are producing something; the bored people are those who are consuming...
DEAN INGE People just have to give him time. When you're a great hitter, all you need is time to get comfortab...
BRANDON INGE At first, I slid because he was up there and he jumped at me. I thought I still slid late enough to ...
BRANDON INGE We're the ones who have to perform. It's only his responsibility to prepare us, but once we take tha...
BRANDON INGE The bottom line is, Tram didn't do things right at the beginning as a manager and by the time he tri...
BRANDON INGE There were a lot of mistakes made that season to lose 119 games but I learned from those mistakes. I...
BRANDON INGE He's the furthest thing from the reputation from the incident from last year. He doesn't have a bad ...
BRANDON INGE It really feels good to have everybody here. We're all looking forward to this season and now we're ...
BRANDON INGE You can't take it like it's a country club. I honestly don't think he directed that at everyone. Ins...
BRANDON INGE That's the only time on offense when you can really feel like you're a team player. You're making an...
BRANDON INGE Jim's very much a kid at heart. He shows up at the ballpark and he's a 12-year-old. He's in the unif...
BRANDON INGE He's the type of guy that isn't afraid of anyone. He's a bulldog, and I really like that and respect...
BRANDON INGE I would like this (regime) to stick. That's just luck of the draw. You can't blame it all on (the ma...
BRANDON INGE You don't need steroids to bunt like he does. He's the furthest guy I would have ever thought.
BRANDON INGE What can I say. We can't win. Not right now.
BRANDON INGE If you're focused on places you want to be down the road, you're not focusing on the task at hand.
BRANDON INGE Our focus was our downfall,
BRANDON INGE Mentally, it was frustrating, because on paper we had a good chance this year. It just didn't work o...
BRANDON INGE We were doing so well in the first half of the season,
BRANDON INGE It felt good, I think it gave us a spark,
BRANDON INGE It was a pretty intense moment. I thought for sure it was broken. I went over to the mound to look a...
BRANDON INGE He just knows how to pound the zone once he gets ahead. He just lets his defense work for him. He's ...
BRANDON INGE When you win two out of three against the world champions, you feel like you can beat any team in th...
BRANDON INGE I've always said the lack of hitting is contagious when you're losing -- like it becomes contagious ...
BRANDON INGE We stunk. I've got nothing else to say.
BRANDON INGE We aren't feeling sorry for ourselves -- we play hard every day. But the last couple of weeks have b...
BRANDON INGE They did their best to give us the game. It just didn't go our way.
BRANDON INGE Sometimes people read him wrong because he's so quiet. But he's very clutch. He comes through for us...
BRANDON INGE The way he's been pitching lately, we almost feel obligated to go out there and get him some runs. C...
BRANDON INGE Personalize your sympathies; depersonalize you antipathies.
DEAN INGE The object of studying philosophy is to know one's own mind, not other people's.
DEAN INGE Don't get up from the feast of life without paying for your share of it.
DEAN INGE In praising science, it does not follow that we must adopt the very poor philosophies which scientif...
DEAN INGE The effect of boredom on a large scale in history is underestimated. It is a main cause of revolutio...
DEAN INGE It takes in reality only one to make a quarrel. It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in f...
DEAN INGE It is becoming impossible for those who mix with their fellowmen to believe that the grace of God is...
DEAN INGE The wisdom of the wise is an uncommon degree of common sense.
DEAN INGE A man may build himself a throne of bayonets, but he cannot sit on it.
DEAN INGE If the universe is running down like a clock, the clock must have been wound up at a date which we c...
DEAN INGE Faith is an act of self-consecration, in which the will, the intellect, and the affections all have ...
DEAN INGE Faith is an act of rational choice, which determines us to act as if certain things were true, and i...
DEAN INGE Man, as we know him, is a poor creature; but he is halfway between an ape and a god and he is travel...
DEAN INGE Let us remember, when we are inclined to be disheartened, that the private soldier is a poor judge o...
DEAN INGE There are no rewards or punishments -- only consequences.
DEAN INGE We tolerate shapes in human beings that would horrify us if we saw them in a horse.
DEAN INGE To marry is to get a binocular view of life.
DEAN INGE Action is the normal completion of the act of will which begins as prayer. That action is not always...
DEAN INGE Literature flourishes best when it is half trade and half an art.
DEAN INGE Is there, as the medieval mystics taught, a "spark" at the core of the Soul, which never consents to...
DEAN INGE Our test is infallible. Whatever view of reality deepens our sense of the tremendous issues of life ...
DEAN INGE Understandably, this is a stretched target.
INGE ZAAMWANI The hospital considered it justified in placing the person under monitoring and alerting the Belgian...
INGE YOORIS When this turns into a law enforcement issue, which we perceive forced evacuation is, regular troops...
JOSEPH INGE Success in war underpins the claims to greatness of many presidents.
R. W. APPLE, JR. Some of our best journalists take themselves even more seriously than the politicians they write abo...
R. W. APPLE, JR. The product of extraordinary wealth allied to a taste for the sumptuous.
R. W. APPLE, JR. The sense of national catastrophe is inevitably heightened in a television age, when the whole count...
R. W. APPLE, JR. Maimed but still magnificent... Europe's mightiest medieval cathedral.
R. W. APPLE, JR. Mr. Reagan spent World War II, the global conflict fought and won by his generation, making training...
R. W. APPLE, JR. Europe and the U.K. are yesterday's world. Tomorrow is in the United States.
R. W. ''TINY'' ROWLAND You handle depression in much the same way you handle a tiger.
DR. R. W. SHEPHERD If depression is creeping up and must be faced, learn something about the nature of the beast: You m...
DR. R. W. SHEPHERD Well concerning the world records that I did, I think it helps a lot to me, yeah. I think it's a...
INGE DE BRUIJN I always think it's because of you know hard work, hard training. And if Susie's training ha...
INGE DE BRUIJN And I mean I never doubt anybody's record.
INGE DE BRUIJN I love to smile.
INGE DE BRUIJN The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they a...
WILLIAM RALPH INGE Worry is interest paid on trouble before it is due.
WILLIAM RALPH INGE It is useless for sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism while wolves remain of a diffe...
WILLIAM RALPH INGE The church is only a secular institution in which the half-educated speak to the half-converted.
WILLIAM RALPH INGE A nation is a society united by a delusion about it's ancestry and by a common hatred of it's neig...
WILLIAM RALPH INGE Nobody is bored when he is trying to make something that is beautiful, or to discover something that...
WILLIAM RALPH INGE It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favour of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains ...
WILLIAM RALPH INGE Events in the past may be roughly divided into those which probably never happened and those which d...
WILLIAM RALPH INGE It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own...
WILLIAM RALPH INGE Public opinion, a vulgar, impertinent, anonymous tyrant who deliberately makes life unpleasant for a...
WILLIAM RALPH INGE We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and fe...
WILLIAM RALPH INGE A man may build himself a throne of bayonets, but he can't sit on it.
WILLIAM RALPH INGE A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours...
WILLIAM RALPH INGE I think middle-age is the best time, if we can escape the fatty degeneration of the conscience which...
WILLIAM RALPH INGE Every institution not only carries within it the seeds of its own dissolution, but prepares the way ...
WILLIAM RALPH INGE I have never understood why it should be considered derogatory to the Creator to suppose that he has...
WILLIAM RALPH INGE