Colonel Joll Quotes & Sayings

The truly ambitious are always as busy on the landings as they are breathless on the stairs. — Louis Kronenberger

Pass no rash condemnation on other peoples words or actions. — Thomas A Kempis

Democracy does not require perfect equality, but it does require that citizens share a common life. What matters is that people of different backgrounds and social positions encounter one another, and bump up against one another, in the course of ordinary life. — Michael Sandel

Cha-Cha favored short, earnest prayer, and he often wondered what took others so long., It had something to do with excess supplication, he suspected. He never presented a long list of specific requests to God, had always felt uncomfortable with the presumptuousness of "Ask and you shall receive." This might have been a result of pride, or his own middling ambition, but mostly Cha-Cha's prayers were a series of thank-yous and I'm sorrys. — Angela Flournoy

People who love soft methods and hate iniquity forget this; that reform consists in taking a bone from a dog. Philosophy will not do it. — John Jay Chapman

There I lay staring upward, while the stars wheeled over ... Faint to my ears came the gathered rumor of all lands: the springing and the dying, the song and the weeping, and the slow everlasting groan of overburdened stone. — J.R.R. Tolkien

I'm sitting with my friends getting drunk again on wine, and I think about you — Kate Nash

Initiative doesn't cost a thing, feel free to take all you want. — Don Jacobs

Being rich means seeing all that's ugly and having the arrogance to think you can change things. All you have to do is pay for it. — Gregoire Delacourt