What concerns me is that man, unable to articulate, to express himself adequately, reverts to action. Since the vocabulary of action is limited, as it were, to his body, he is bound to act violently, extending his vocabulary with a weapon where there should have been an adjective.


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JOSEPH CAMPBELL
I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the e...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL
I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dyin...
JOSEPH ADDISON
The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years, But th...
JOSEPH ADDISON
Literature was formerly an art and finance a trade; today it is the reverse.
JOSEPH ROUX
Our experience is composed rathery of illusions that of wisdom acquired.
JOSEPH ROUX
When unhappy, one doubts everything; when happy, one doubts nothing.
JOSEPH ROUX
I was raised to feel that doing nothing was a sin. I had to learn to do nothing.
JENNY JOSEPH
Health and cheerfulness mutually beget each other.
JOSEPH ADDISON
A word carries far, very far, deals destruction through time as the bullets go flying through space.
JOSEPH CONRAD
At a moderate calculation, among a million of persons inhabiting the metropolis, there are, at least...
JOSEPH LANCASTER
My dad was a cotton buyer and cotton buyers always considered themselves superior to the rest of the...
JOSEPH MITCHELL
I like candles. It helps cover up for the fact that I have four male roommates.
TYLER JOSEPH
A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.
JOSEPH ADDISON
The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good na...
JOSEPH ADDISON
'Tis not in mortals to command success, But we'll do more, Sempronius,-- We'll deserve it.
JOSEPH ADDISON
My favorite actors when I was a kid were in their '60s. Spencer Tracy, Humphrey Bogart, John Way...
JOSEPH BOLOGNA
Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL
Sweet are the slumbers of the virtuous man!
JOSEPH ADDISON
Curse on his virtues! they've undone his country.
JOSEPH ADDISON
I labored hard to avoid trouble and bloodshed.
CHIEF JOSEPH
Nature does nothing without purpose or uselessly.
JOSEPH ADDISON
If there's a power above us, (and that there is all nature cries aloud Through all her works) he ...
JOSEPH ADDISON
There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world.
JOSEPH JOUBERT
The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.
JOSEPH JOUBERT
My voice is still for war.
JOSEPH ADDISON
Loveliest of women! heaven is in thy soul, Beauty and virtue shine forever round thee, Bright...
JOSEPH ADDISON
Science is for those who learn, poetry is for those who know.
JOSEPH ROUX
There are the girls we love, the men we look up to, the tenderness, the friendships, the opportuniti...
JOSEPH CONRAD
What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight.
JOSEPH JOUBERT
Young men soon give and soon forget affronts; Old age is slow in both.
JOSEPH ADDISON
There were formerly horizons within which people lived and thought and mythologized. There are now n...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL
He who has not the weakness of friendship has not the strength.
JOSEPH JOUBERT
You don't grow up in our neck of the woods believing that someone can outwork you.
JOSEPH PARKINSON
A lot of people have mentioned that I'm the X-factor on the team. I'll try and do what I've been try...
ADRIAN JOSEPH
The ACC games are right around the corner. We can't play like this because it's a different level.
ADRIAN JOSEPH
ACC games are right around the corner. We can't play like this because it's a different level.
ADRIAN JOSEPH
I stepped up with confidence to take the shot, and it went in. After the shot went through the net, ...
ADRIAN JOSEPH
We're going to come out like we do every game playing defense and playing with a lot of confidence. ...
ADRIAN JOSEPH
I've been given more opportunities, and I'm just trying to step up and do big things along with Sean...
ADRIAN JOSEPH
When Sean came back in the game, he kept on scoring so all their focus was on Sean. That made me wid...
ADRIAN JOSEPH