Ash Morgenstern Quotes & Sayings

Broadly speaking, Protestants like to be good and have invented theology in order to keep themselves so, whereas Catholics like to be bad and have invented theology in order to keep their neighbors good. Hence, the social character of Catholicism and the individual character of Protestantism. — Bertrand Russell

Jump right in, or wade in slowly.
Advantage to one, it's over quickly.
Advantage to the other, it isn't. — Maira Kalman

Shall I show you the sinews of a philosopher? What sinews are those? - A will undisappointed; evils avoided; powers daily exercised; careful resolutions; unerring decisions. — Epictetus

a bond which cannot be broken. — Alessandra Torre

Jan shook his head, 'No. You have the most beautiful, powerful voice that any of us are ever hearing,' he said. 'How could we leave you alone? It would be against the law. I would have to telephone Interpol. — Lucy Robinson

People should be stopped from writing poetry. There's far too much of it. And if they're any good, they'll go ahead anyways. — Clive James

Official decisions are as elusive
as young girls. — Franz Kafka

I'm the kind of person, I think a lot about everything. Nothin' I can do about it. It's like, I'm a thinkin' fool. That's a big part of me. — Bruce Springsteen

I have faith in the market when we get the rules right. — Kenneth Lay

Neither moral relations nor the moral law can swing in vacuo. Their only habitat can be a mind which feels them; and no world composed of merely physical facts can possibly be a world to which ethical propositions apply. — William James

You will never stumble while on your knees — James Patterson

The moment you stop learning you're dying. — Robert Kiyosaki

Life's a riddle, child," he said lightly, "but if you can feel the bumps on the road, it means you're alive and in the game. And that is a good place to be. — C.A. Belmond