We can't disassemble it. We can't force it up because then if a train comes along we have torn up the railroad equipment. The only thing we can do is carefully direct traffic around the arms.


Eric Poteet

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

If you love someone you must set them free like the wind and give them the respect they deserve.If y...
GARY F EVANS...
If we all look at life we think how nice, then we look at death and everybody goes oh you can say th...
GARY F EVANS...
If we're honest with ourselves, most of us know the one thing we lack.
CRAIG GROESCHEL
If we don't fear God, it's because we don't know God.
CRAIG GROESCHEL
The future belongs to all who, refusing to look back at the past move ahead with the clock as it tic...
ODO SIMON AGBO
When We have Patience in our minds and Love in our hearts, Nothing appears to be impossible or unrea...
PHILIP T.M
The only thing that we cannot control is our supporters.
JOSE MOURINHO
The more we give, the more we reap the benefits of feeling good in helping others. We are all capabl...
ANGIE KARAN
How can we ever have peace when we cant even make peace with the things we cant control.
SYNECA DE JORMUNGAND
Each of us views life through a different lens. What we think is colored by the baggage we carry, an...
LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD
Could it be possible for humanity to put their differences aside for the survival of our species, un...
GARY F EVANS...
You either have the feeling or you don’t.
DANIEL HANDLER
A couple of customers interrupted [...] who wanted to know if we had some YA book about ants and ali...
SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON
We have a right to life, not on it.
DANIEL MELGAçO
we
sat there
smoking
cigarettes
at
5
in the morning.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
People are attracted to who we are more than what we do.
LORRIN L. LEE
The words you can’t find, you borrow.
We read to know we’re not alone. We read because w...
GABRIELLE ZEVIN
We can handle the traffic if the railroad is going. We have the infrastructure...but I'm not confide...
DON WYLIE
If we cant laugh at ourselves, do we have the right to laugh at others?
C.H. HAMEL
People see what they want to see
SUSAN BETH PFEFFER
I'm already gone. I died that night on the side of that road with my sister.
TRISHA LEAVER
Perfection isn't everything," she said as she turned and walked away. "I think the flaws are what ma...
TRISHA LEAVER
With her I'd buried myself, every memory of who I was now, six feet under with the sister I'd put th...
TRISHA LEAVER
We may not get to choose how we die, but we can chose how we live.
The universe may for...
SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON
Dreams are hopeful because they exist as pure possibility. Unlike memories, which are fossils, long ...
SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON
We hate Simple Minds. They were no.1 in our Top Five Bands or Musicians who will have to be shot com...
NICK HORNBY
The answer isn't more time but a greater awareness of the time we have.
CRAIG GROESCHEL
Because we have 100 percent, you cant get higher than that. So out of the 58 counties that have jail...
STEVE WARREN
We didn’t think anything of it at the time, but we saw several of the bodies of the crew, space pi...
CHRISTINA ENGELA
Because you can only die once but you can suffer forever.
SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON
Everyone is the Umbrella Man and he is everyone. Every cough, sneeze, smile and wave means both ever...
CRAIG CLEVENGER
Most of us dont become what we can be because we cant see its what we already are.
CARL HAMMERSCHLAG
The human heart knows thing the eyes cant see, and feels the things the mind cant understand.. but i...
VANESSA SCHIFFER
We've got exactly what we need to fulfill our destiny!
ABHISHEK KUMAR
If the seed doesn't get planted, it can't become a toxic thornbush. We must guard our minds and our ...
CRAIG GROESCHEL
If i cant then who can?
AJITH BSC MBA
Standing on the edge of that darkness, she felt the stirrings of reckless want. A wild sort of brave...
EMILY LLOYD-JONES
Weirdly enough, the more we give away, the richer we become.
CRAIG GROESCHEL
So, tomorrow, I'm leaving. And I'm not going to let that happen again with anyone else. I'm going to...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY
I am aware that everyone that exists has a story, and we all exist because that story is important f...
ARZELL
I don't know where to go. I don't know what comes now."
"Don't worry," Will said. "We'll figur...
LAUREN OLIVER
To say to that you will never forget ,is always a sincere and an honest way to express ones self to ...
GARY F EVANS...
In every passing moment that is not appreciated time cannot give it back to you. So in moments of id...
GARY F EVANS...
When we die our deeds shall be left for humanity to judge & our flesh shall become dust for humanity...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN)
Dae FATE NAYAE Nanagha Vandhuttoom Da, Sandy , Na Nata, London Lass,Russian Grapes, Ellorum Ippa Van...
SATHESH KUMAR M
The island is ours. Here, in some way, we are young forever.
E.LOCKHART
اگر میخواهید جایی زندگی کنید که مردمش از موش ها نمیترسن...
EMILY LOCKHART
You hate cake doughnuts."
"Of course," says Mirren. "But we didn't get the cake, we got glazed ...
E.LOCKHART
There are parallel universes in which different events have happened to the same people. An alternat...
E. LOCKHEART
There is not even a scrabble word for how bad I feel.
E. LOCKHEART
He was contemplation and enthusiasm. Ambition and strong coffee.
E. LOCKHART
Johnny, he is bounce, effort, and snark.
Mirren, she is sugar, curiosity, and rain.
Gat, h...
E.LOCKHART
Everything doesn't seem like anything when you love someone. Especially when you're young.
E. LOCKHART
If puss and dog can get together, why cant we love one another?
BOB MARLEY
When traffic comes in from the [Web] client we can look at it and not have to terminate that session...
ALAN NORQUIST
We cant always take every piece of equipment we have off-road, but we can take the MARCBOT off-road,...
JAMES DUNCAN
Destiny consist in the moments that we experienced, and not in the choices we have to do.
DANIEL MELGAçO
Orion is above the horizon now, and near it Jupiter, brighter than it will ever be ... But i expect ...
THOMAS HARRIS
We can not only tell when traffic is backing up, if traffic stops we get an alarm from the computer ...
BOB TIPTON
We want the best, but cant walk the test. Everyone wants it easy.
JOHN ALEXANDER TRISTRAM
I think if we keep on doing good music and people like us and they buy the magazine because we are i...
VILLE VALO
It's the imperfections that make things beautiful
JENNY HAN
We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.
DOLLY PARTON
We cant even confirm to you there is a trial. If we release information, it jeopardizes the trial in...
JULIE ZAWISZA
The expectation is there will be a huge flood of trains, and that is not going to happen. We have 55...
JOHN BROMLEY
If we're talking about transportation, the best thing a city can do is densify as quickly as it ...
ALEX STEFFEN
When we wonder why crime doesn't stop or end. It is because the people who are committing it. We kno...
DE PHILOSOPHER DJ KYOS
We are definitely stepping up the level in our response. We cant allow the situation to carry on lik...
MAJ. AVITAL LEIBOWICH
This is the worst of it, the last resort. If you cant come here, you cant go anywhere.
CHRIS STERNDALE
One thing is sure. We have to do something. We have to do the best we know how at the moment. If it ...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT
We cant judge people because not everyone is kind and not everyone is bad
AINA JAHIRAH
If we cannot see the possibility of greatness, how can we dream it?
LEE STRASBERG
Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters.
JEFFREY FRY
35. God is entitled to a portion of our income—not because He needs it but because we need to give...
JAMES C. DOBSON
We should not blame people by the mistakes of others.
DANIEL MELGAçO
He gave everything to everybody. Except to me.
J.K. ROWLING
I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made ...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
One thing is sure. We have to do something. We have to do the best we know how at the moment... If i...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT
When you tell me your story or about yourself I understand who you are and are able to share who I a...
BRENT M. JONES
Because this process only comes up every 10 years, we might as well take a bite out of the apple now...
ROB HOSACK
We cannot build up the idea of the apostolate of the laity without the foundation of the liturgy.
DOROTHY DAY
When the train is completed that will be the lure. So what do we do until then? We can't let it drop...
CANDY DUNCAN
Wishing on that far away star, how far removed we truly are.
MICHAEL DE CHâTILLON
Air is approximately 21% oxygen, our brains feed off of oxygen. So basically we are all airheads.
ANDONI GARCIA
Inspired By Beauty In Creation We Are One
DANIEL GILMAN
We each can accomplish so much in this world. There is no room for boredom
ROXE
Are shadows a shadowy reflection of the soul or is it a reflection of who we really are, or possibly...
GARY F EVANS...
And when I saw you kissing that girl
My heart, it shattered and my eyes, they watered
And ...
KATE NASH
We are this fucking stick in the end...
DEYTH BANGER
Sisi wote ni wanafunzi.
ENOCK MAREGESI
Created visions of experiencing unreality.
VICDO
We cant afford to lose him halfway through the season.
DAVE BEAUDOIN
When people are loading up on us, we have to have the ability to throw the ball. We cant let people ...
MICKEY MATTHEWS
Dead people can be our heroes because they cant disappoint us later; they only improve over time, as...
VERONICA ROTH
We have to look to the future, if it carries on like this then we will end up like the gladiators of...
ANDRIY SHEVCHENKO
Now we have one chance in some case, as in this body but in other body we will have + one because we...
DEYTH BANGER
My prayer will shake heaven to come down and kiss the earth... and I will pose somewhere to watch it...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR
His family is torn, too. But they can go visit him. The only thing we have is a tombstone.
JAMES CAMM
Every story needs some sort of secret that impels it forward. Otherwise why would the reader bother ...
DEB LOUGHEAD
Somewhere in the ruins above them, the cats are howling.
ANTHONY DOERR

More Eric Poteet

He's not doing this for credit. He's doing this because he recognizes the need.
ERIC POTEET
We're talking about over a half million dollars worth of stuff, including cars, computers, recreatio...
ERIC POTEET
We have received no calls regarding them whatsoever.
ERIC POTEET
We're not ruling anything out at this point, but we are treating it as a domestic incident.
ERIC POTEET
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
We never say so much as when we do not quite know what we want to say. We need few words when we hav...
ERIC HOFFER
To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.
ERIC HOFFER
The well adjusted make poor prophets. A pleasant existence blinds us to the possibilities of drastic...
ERIC HOFFER
Art is skill, that is the first meaning of the word.
ERIC GILL
Prosperity is not just having things. It is the consciousness that attracts the things. Prosperity i...
ERIC BUTTERWORTH
Man is the only creature that strives to surpass himself, and yearns for the impossible.
ERIC HOFFER
The suspicious mind believes more than it doubts. It believes in a formidable and ineradicable evil ...
ERIC HOFFER
Dissipation is a form of self-sacrifice.
ERIC HOFFER
Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achie...
ERIC BUTTERWORTH
A decision without the pressure of consequence is hardly a decision at all.
ERIC LANGMUIR.
When being dishonest, people can still tell the truth. Be mindful of the treacherous that do not lie...
ERIC PARSLOW
Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but...
ERIC HOFFER
We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.
ERIC HOFFER
Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
ERIC HOFFER
There is no such thing as a lack of faith. We all have plenty of faith, it's just that we have faith...
ERIC BUTTERWORTH
They who lack talent expect things to happen without effort. They ascribe failure to a lack of inspi...
ERIC HOFFER
There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his ow...
ERIC HOFFER
Facts are counterrevolutionary.
ERIC HOFFER
Where you are in consciousness has everything to do with what you see in experience.
ERIC BUTTERWORTH
Substantive abandonment of convention is evidence of mastery.
ERIC PARSLOW
It is remarkable by how much a pinch of malice enhances the penetrating power of an idea or an opini...
ERIC HOFFER
A great man's greatest good luck is to die at the right time.
ERIC HOFFER
Man was nature's mistake --she neglected to finish him -- and she has never ceased paying for her mi...
ERIC HOFFER
Truth and honesty are quite different. What a person believes to be true always follows when honesty...
ERIC PARSLOW
The game of history is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of the majority in th...
ERIC HOFFER
It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.
ERIC HOFFER
Evil, and evil spirits, devils and devil possession, are the outgrowth of man's inadequate conscious...
ERIC BUTTERWORTH
The one thing that a fish can never find is water; and the one thing that man can never find is God.
ERIC BUTTERWORTH
God can only do for you what He can do through you.
ERIC BUTTERWORTH
Fundamentalists believe Jesus was God becoming man. I believe that Jesus was man becoming God.
ERIC BUTTERWORTH
You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.
ERIC HOFFER
Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, ...
ERIC HOFFER
The birth of the new constitutes a crisis, and its mastery calls for a crude and simple cast of mind...
ERIC HOFFER
To the old, the new is usually bad news.
ERIC HOFFER
The fear of becoming a 'has-been' keeps some people from becoming anything.
ERIC HOFFER
There is sublime thieving in all giving. Someone gives us all he has and we are his.
ERIC HOFFER
Our present addiction to pollsters and forecasters is a symptom of our chronic uncertainty about the...
ERIC HOFFER
To make of human affairs a coherent, precise, predictable whole one must ignore or suppress man as h...
ERIC HOFFER
The basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are free not to ...
ERIC HOFFER
There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.
ERIC HOFFER
The pleasure we derive from doing favors is partly in the feeling it gives us that we are not altoge...
ERIC HOFFER
Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.
ERIC HOFFER
Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion even the most poisonous impulses ...
ERIC HOFFER
We find it hard to apply the knowledge of ourselves to our judgment of others. The fact that we are ...
ERIC HOFFER
SIN: Self-Inflicted Nonsense
ERIC BUTTERWORTH
Where everything is possible miracles become commonplaces, but the familiar ceases to be self-eviden...
ERIC HOFFER
The chemistry of dissatisfaction is as the chemistry of some marvelously potent tar. In it are the b...
ERIC HOFFER
The remarkable thing is that we really love our neighbor as ourselves: we do unto others as we do un...
ERIC HOFFER
Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength.
ERIC HOFFER