Perfecting is our destiny, but perfection never our lot.
C. J. WEBER Vigilance is the virtue of vice.
C. J. WEBER The civilized savage is the worst of all savages.
C. J. WEBER It doesn't take a lot of strength to hang on. It takes a lot of strength to let go.
J. C. WATTS My work in the House of Representatives, at this time in my life, is completed. It is time to return...
J. C. WATTS I would caution all of us or I would remind all of us that any candidate that we support, they are g...
J. C. WATTS I think the Republican Party should be a pro-life party. I am pro-life. I do not apologize for that....
J. C. WATTS The past two decades revolutionized the way we access information. You and I can have our questions ...
J. C. WATTS Serving in Congress has been more than an honor; it has been one of the most exhilarating experience...
J. C. WATTS I think that anybody that stays in school, gets good grades, pays the price, I think we are wealthy ...
J. C. WATTS Good policy makes good politics and what I've done has been good politics.
J. C. WATTS Reparations, I believe, are talked about for political reasons, trying to cater for the purpose of g...
J. C. WATTS If you are explaining, you are losing.
J. C. WATTS I'm looking forward to the day when America will mature to the point that we are a color-blind s...
J. C. WATTS When it comes to the American dream, no one has a corner on the market. All of us have an equal chan...
J. C. WATTS I think you grow wherever God plants you. I hope I'm growing as a person of faith, as a Christia...
J. C. WATTS If diversity is O.K. for God, it ought to be O.K. for Republicans.
J. C. WATTS Having a Republican candidate speak at the NAACP convention is like trying to build a house starting...
J. C. WATTS I'm secure in who I am. I don't need the validation of those that would say, you have to be ...
J. C. WATTS Republicans and Democrats have used accounting gimmicks and competing government analyses to deceive...
J. C. WATTS The measure of a man is not how great his faith is, but how great his love is. We must not let gover...
J. C. WATTS Everyone tries to define this thing called Character. It's not hard. Character is doing what'...
J. C. WATTS Any well-read man knows that the moral difference between the condition of the world before Christia...
J. C. RYLE If Christianity is a mere invention of man, and the Bible is of no more authority than any other uni...
J. C. RYLE All men ought to think of Christ, because of what Christ will yet do to all men. He shall come again...
J. C. RYLE There are many things which swallow up men's thoughts while they live, which they will think lit...
J. C. RYLE There is a vast quantity of religion current in the world which is not true, genuine Christianity. I...
J. C. RYLE What could an unsanctified man do in Heaven, if by any chance he got there? Let that question be fai...
J. C. RYLE Christmas is a season which almost all Christians observe in one way or another. Some keep it as a r...
J. C. RYLE The 'means of grace' are such as Bible reading, private prayer, and regularly worshiping God...
J. C. RYLE If Christianity is a mere invention of man, and the Bible is not from God, how can infidels explain ...
J. C. RYLE All men ought to think of Christ because of the office Christ fills between God and man. He is the e...
J. C. RYLE The true Christian is called to be a soldier and must behave as such from the day of his conversion ...
J. C. RYLE The warrior may fight for gold or for an immediate gain, or for something to take home for the winte...
C. J. CHERRYH Republicans think that the NAACP is the only voice in the black community. It is a voice in the blac...
J. C. WATTS For me the purest and truest art in the world is science fiction.
C. J. CHERRYH Culture is how biology responds and makes its living conditions better.
C. J. CHERRYH A warrior is free to be a hero and pull off daring do and the soldier is irresponsible if he does it...
C. J. CHERRYH Trade isn't about goods. Trade is about information. Goods sit in the warehouse until informatio...
C. J. CHERRYH Deal with the Devil if the Devil has a constituency - and don't complain about the heat.
C. J. CHERRYH As a reader, I'm often put off by authors and story-lines without families or children and all o...
C. J. BOX I do like the research part of writing, I must admit.
C. J. BOX I really think more fledgling novelists - and many current and even established novelists - should g...
C. J. BOX I love to feature children and young adults as real people - flawed, naive, virtuous, venal - but re...
C. J. BOX Love and electricity are one in the same, my dear.... if you do not feel the jolt in your soul ever...
C. J. FRANKS It is good to pray for the repair of mistakes, but praying earlier would keep us from making so many...
J. C. MACAULAY It takes a great man to give sound advice tactfully, but a greater to accept it graciously.
J. C. MACAULAY Keep your heart right, even when it is sorely wounded.
J. C. MACAULAY Never put much confidence in such, as put no confidence in others. A man prone to suspect evil is mo...
J. C. HARE Repentance may be old-fashioned, but it is not outdated so long as there is sin.
J. C. MACAULAY Never allow your own sorrow to absorb you, but seek out another to console, and you will find consol...
J. C. MACAULAY Affirmative action is a little like the professional football draft. The NFL awards its No. 1 draft ...
J. C. WATTS In 2008, as a matter of fact, I had people accusing me of being a Senator Obama supporter because I ...
J. C. WATTS If Christianity is a mere invention of man, and not a supernatural, divine revelation, how is it tha...
J. C. RYLE I do think, however, that there's a very diverse point of view in the African-American community...
J. C. WATTS I guess probably in my time in politics, it continued to be affirmed to me that the African-American...
J. C. WATTS There's a whole lot more to the African-American community than entertainment and sports.
J. C. WATTS Endurance in ministry is rooted in the eternal perspective. The absence of an eternal perspective ma...
C. J. MAHANEY Sanctification is the outcome and inseparable consequence of regeneration. He who is born again and ...
J. C. RYLE Character is doing the right thing when nobody's looking. There are too many people who think th...
J. C. WATTS We need to remember that politics is all about people, not programs. We shouldn't want to take t...
J. C. WATTS My views on everything from welfare to a balanced budget to affirmative action can be traced to what...
J. C. WATTS I'm not one that believes that affirmative action should be based on one's skin color or one...
J. C. WATTS Necessity is laid upon us. We must fight. There are no promises in the Lord Jesus Christ's epist...
J. C. RYLE Commemoration of Johann Sebastian Bach, musician, 1750 Humility and love are precisely the graces...
J. C. RYLE Commemoration of Charles de Foucauld, Hermit, Servant of the Poor, 1916 Faith is to the soul wh...
J. C. RYLE Bibles read without prayer; sermons heard without prayer; marriages contracted without prayer; journ...
J. C. RYLE Feast of Benedict of Nursia, Father of Western Monasticism, c.550 To be prayerless is to be with...
J. C. RYLE The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.
J. C. HARE The more I ponder some of the boneheaded decisions GOP candidates have made of late, I can't bri...
J. C. WATTS Individual responsibility, hard work, paying attention in school, faith, family all these things are...
J. C. WATTS Well, Mark, I led the charge for five or six years to get reforms for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. I ...
J. C. WATTS Pastoral ministry is about an ongoing confrontation with the god of this world, with blindness, hard...
C. J. MAHANEY I find myself so easily discouraged. It is pathetic how easily I can be discouraged - easily discour...
C. J. MAHANEY I'm a huge fan of the films of the '70s and even into the '80s, Sidney Lumet, all those ...
J. C. CHANDOR I think Newt Gingrich has a proven track record of changing Washington and getting results.
J. C. WATTS When you look at the results that Newt Gingrich got when he was speaker, he got results for the Amer...
J. C. WATTS I think in politics, in Congress, you often do things that are Republican, or you do things because ...
J. C. WATTS But I'm not so think as you drunk I am
J. C. SQUIRE The best prayer one can make to the God is by promising that he will try to become a better human be...
J C GUPTA When you hear hoofbeats in Central Park, think horses, not zebras.
J. C. PETERS The presence of any humility in my life is purely and completely an evidence of God's grace. Fro...
C. J. MAHANEY I embrace my blackness, just as I do my conservatism and my Christianity, but I don't want to be...
J. C. WATTS We print money. The people that print the money is actually us. The government of the United States ...
J. C. CHANDOR The original Spencer Tracy version of 'The Old Man and the Sea' was always terribly flawed b...
J. C. CHANDOR I'm not driven to get back into politics. It's not on my top five things to do before I die,...
J. C. WATTS Pastoral ministry is a sacrificial call with unique challenges. We are called to take the Gospel to ...
C. J. MAHANEY In addition, there is one title I cherish a great deal more than Congressman and that is the title o...
J. C. WATTS In my wildest imagination, I never thought that the fifth of six children born to Helen and Buddy Wa...
J. C. WATTS I never got into politics for it to be a career. It doesn't take a lot of strength to hang on. I...
J. C. WATTS We must not let ourselves be swept off our feet in horror at the danger of nuclear power. Nuclear po...
DAVID J. C. MACKAY Hate no one; hate their vices, not themselves.
J. G. C. BRAINARD To me our bombing policy appears to be suicidal. Not because it does not do vast damage to our enemy...
J. F. C. FULLER When the Industrial Revolution started, the amount of carbon sitting underneath Britain in the form ...
DAVID J. C. MACKAY In the World War nothing was more dreadful to witness than a chain of men starting with a battalion ...
J. F. C. FULLER All renewables, much as I love them, are diffuse. They all have a small power per unit area, and we ...
DAVID J. C. MACKAY National armies fight nations, royal armies fight their like, the first obey a mob, always demented ...
J. F. C. FULLER Hate no one; hate their vices, not themselves.
J G C BRAINARD Electric cars are really very cool. Air-source heat pumps are great.
DAVID J. C. MACKAY I don't know what it like to raise a kid but even so, I want to believe that kids out there should b...
J C A ROWE Those who factors woman and man into various of subjects and skills are definitely one of the dumbes...
J C A ROWE Now kids, if we all could have sex without condoms and getting pregnant. It would halt the progress ...
J C A ROWE I prefer to stay away from religion matter. Not I am an atheist nor religious, I wouldn't even want ...
J C A ROWE Don't falter if you have failed doing what you believe in. You can fail many times as you need to ac...
J C A ROWE People always ask themselves what are the answers, and within the answer that enable them to grow or...
J C A ROWE Winter, you're a fucking ass. Should I not blame the planet itself from spinning direction away from...
J C A ROWE Actions and words Part 1: Does actions really speak louder then words? Lot of people believe it true...
J C A ROWE We can't be anti-everything - we need an energy plan that adds up. But there's a lack of num...
DAVID J. C. MACKAY Silence as always.
J C A ROWE Friend: You quite an oddball, where you from? Mars? Haha. James: I am actually, I assume you're from...
J C A ROWE If your life is shit then that because you step on it.
J C A ROWE Again, it is better to use something of the weak to create a better world. Actions is louder than wo...
J C A ROWE The world should really try laughing more often, no matter how dark the joke is. The world is dark e...
J C A ROWE I pity the Gods, I feel so sorry for them. A common God has infinity power, has knowledge of emotion...
J C A ROWE Part one: Video games, inappropriate music and such isn't something you can blame on when ignorant t...
J C A ROWE Actions and words Part 2: With spears and fire? I think not, let be honest, communication has always...
J C A ROWE Rule the world or destroy it, sound boring. I would rather explore it high and low.
J C A ROWE People can hurt you and go, it will heal. But what hurt the most is the pain you cause to yourself.
J C A ROWE I have lot of quotes to tell, but I never remember them when they first come to my head. Strangely t...
J C A ROWE To be a good wife is the one who always right, to be a good husband is the one who always make sacri...
J C A ROWE My past is so empty and pathetic but I don't want to change it, nor do I want someone I hate not to ...
J C A ROWE Idiots are the kind of people who don't understand your clever come-backs.
J C A ROWE People tend to mistake their feelings for admiration, thus throwing the world into confusion and rej...
J C A ROWE The human brain is very odd indeed. It easy to understand something perfectly then to do something p...
J C A ROWE The greater challenge comes with greater glory.
J C A ROWE I don't know about you girls but If I was one, I think funny men would be one of the greatest kind o...
J C A ROWE Banning people on the internet is like beating them up in real life in order to shut them up.
J C A ROWE There is no justice among law, only those who brings it, and do it rightly so.
J C A ROWE Life is but of stepping stones, take good balance of your feets and proudly step forward.
J C A ROWE “Art is everything you see. Boardgames are art, songs are art, books are art, art is a precious th...
J C A ROWE I pity the people who hated the opposite sex, I've no idea what they done to them but I still won't ...
J C A ROWE ...Life is what you make of it, there is no such thing as a "Common" most important thing in life, b...
J C A ROWE Isolation is a funny thing. The relationship between the loner and isolation depends on the society ...
J C A ROWE The songs are the questions and the poems are the answers.
J C A ROWE I don't believe taking your own life is wrong nor it's a lowest thing you can do for your own gain. ...
J C A ROWE Suprises don't count when you didn't have a heart attack.
J C A ROWE A fool and the wise get along very well.
J C A ROWE Part two: Did the parents stop them? Would they ever... But you know what? It not even a big deal. P...
J C A ROWE Don't take it to heart when someone intelligence corrected you, it's not that they fear stupidity wo...
J C A ROWE There's always a minor character in stories who make the biggest sacrifices when sadly, their effort...
J C A ROWE Whatever it is humour, creativity or music, when entertainment are too advance for the audience, it'...
J C A ROWE Personality or looks was never important. We all have dark and light side in us, and that's what mak...
J C A ROWE There is no such thing as normal people, we can only see one's consciousness which defines the tip o...
J C A ROWE A person who wearing a mask is just another human being who yet met their ego. It's a shame that rea...
J C A ROWE Your attempt to make someone else happy is wasted. You cannot give, but steal other's happiness to f...
J C A ROWE How do you suppose a wizard arrive "precisely" when he means to? Obviously there's a meaning behind ...
J C A ROWE Why is it that we humans don't have tails or fluffy ears like animals have? If I have a tail, I woul...
J C A ROWE Lady Luck only favours gentlemen.
J C A ROWE Home is where my ass is, on the sofa.
J C A ROWE The amount of energy saved by switching off the phone charger is exactly the same as the energy used...
DAVID J. C. MACKAY Fridges can be modified to nudge their internal thermostats up and down just a little in response to...
DAVID J. C. MACKAY The United States consumes power per land-area at a rate three times the average. Even though they a...
DAVID J. C. MACKAY To have constructive conversations about the world's energy options, one needs to take a calm lo...
DAVID J. C. MACKAY Solving climate change is a complex topic, but in a single crude brush-stroke, here is the solution:...
DAVID J. C. MACKAY I was distressed by the poor quality of the debate surrounding energy. I was also noticing so much g...
DAVID J. C. MACKAY Fusion power is speculative and experimental. I think it is reckless to assume that the fusion probl...
DAVID J. C. MACKAY The only thing that really scales up apart from nuclear is solar power from other people's deser...
DAVID J. C. MACKAY Most of physics is about energy, and physicists understand inefficiencies. I wanted to write a book ...
DAVID J. C. MACKAY I was writing a book about sustainable energy, and a friend asked me, 'Well, how much energy do ...
DAVID J. C. MACKAY I would like to help people have honest and constructive conversations about energy. We need to unde...
DAVID J. C. MACKAY It is not true that good can only follow from good and evil only from evil, but that often the oppos...
MAX WEBER The nation is burdened with the heavy curse on those who come afterwards. The generation before us w...
MAX WEBER Only he has the calling for politics who is sure that he will not crumble when the world from his po...
MAX WEBER One can say that three pre-eminent qualities are decisive for the politician: passion, a feeling of ...
MAX WEBER I am under the impression that in nine out of ten cases I deal with windbags who do not fully realiz...
MAX WEBER Whenever I release a record, it's my record. It's not a selfish thought. I may work all year...
EBERHARD WEBER When I started to pick up the bass, it was purely by random chance.
EBERHARD WEBER There are always some doubts when you do a new album though. You wonder whether you succeeded or not...
EBERHARD WEBER The way to compose for me is to have lots of time.
EBERHARD WEBER Orchestras are not used to playing the kind of stuff jazz musicians like to play. It requires a lot ...
EBERHARD WEBER On the other hand, when I give it closer thought, I realize I'm not enough of a dictator to cond...
EBERHARD WEBER It's better to finish at the peak or soon after it, than to wait until the audience notices a de...
EBERHARD WEBER In 1972, I got my first electric bass and started playing the kind of instrument I play now. I found...
EBERHARD WEBER If there is a good musical reason, I think it might draw more attention and sell, though it is not g...
EBERHARD WEBER I was afraid the other musicians might want to present themselves too much, though I see in the cove...
EBERHARD WEBER I realized pretty soon that I have to do more than just play bass in the background way. So, I devel...
EBERHARD WEBER I played cello in my high school orchestra.
EBERHARD WEBER I like to create the music I hear in my interior. As a conductor, you have the ability to squeeze th...
EBERHARD WEBER When I think back now to the recording sessions, there is more improvisation than one hears. It'...
EBERHARD WEBER The problem is that I don't want to add another record to the world that is not necessary to be ...
EBERHARD WEBER Orchestra had a little brass ensemble on two tracks as well, but the rest was me. I knew I couldn...
EBERHARD WEBER At the time, I didn't know that bass would not be enough for me. I'm not a bass player becau...
EBERHARD WEBER As a result, I had to get my own playground which was my band Colours. This band lasted for about ei...
EBERHARD WEBER On the other hand, I'm very tolerant as well. I expect that everybody can play what they want. I...
EBERHARD WEBER It is probably very necessary to present your ego at some point.
EBERHARD WEBER I am a classical music lover - not necessarily the contemporary stuff, but the old stuff.
EBERHARD WEBER They never saw their family again.
ALAIN WEBER To me as a man, and as an educator, it is so incredibly important that we do not forget.
ALAIN WEBER I could see she had a great deal of pride in what I am doing, but she still questions it.
ALAIN WEBER You early on become very conscious of certain things. Others were talking about religion. We were no...
ALAIN WEBER Politics is a strong and slow boring of hard boards.
MAX WEBER Les personnages de nos autres vies sont des fantômes que la littérature fait revivre.
OLIVIER WEBER Tisiphone stood silent and helpless in Alicia's mind. It was all she could do to keep Alicia's blind...
DAVID WEBER Only by strict specialization can the scientific worker become fully conscious, for once and perhaps...
MAX WEBER You are stuck with me till the world falls to pieces, and if we’re not still standing even then we...
OTTILIE WEBER The fate of our times is characterized by rationalization and intellectualization and, above all, by...
MAX WEBER No sociologist should think himself too good, even in his old age, to make tens of thousands of quit...
MAX WEBER God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if he f...
JENNY WEBER Precision, speed, unambiguity, knowledge of files, continuity, discretion, unity, strict subordinati...
MAX WEBER If only Coca-Cola had had the kind of message to accompany its addictive deliciousness that Fox News...
STEVEN WEBER