Commerford Home Quotes & Sayings

The complacency of the individual who admires his own excellence is bad enough, but it is more respectable than the complacency of the man who has no self-esteem because he has not even a superficial self which he can esteem. He is not a person, not an individual, only an atom. This atomized existence is sometimes praised as humility or as self-sacrifice, some-times it is called obedience, sometimes it is devotion to the dialectic of class war. It produces a kind of peace which is not peace, but only the escape from an immediately urgent sense of conflict. It is the peace not of love but of anesthesia. It is the peace not of self-realization and self-dedication, but of flight into irresponsibility. — Thomas Merton

The world has not been in existence from eternity nor could it have been according to the present dispensation and ordering of things. — William Ames

I have to confess to not being a great forward planner. I'm the kind of person who regularly arranges to have dinner with five different people on the same night. — John Niven

When someone slaps me with their perspectives, it is not a permission slip to slap them with ours! Pride prevents unity! EL — Evinda Lepins

So this guy, Jeff Johnson, who is an accountant who cares nothing at all about a free press and cares nothing about journalism, he's a right winger who supported the war, you know, who two years ago told people he couldn't stand a word that I wrote. — Robert Scheer

A mistake made once is an oversight. The same mistake made twice? An abberation. A blunder. But a third time?" Doktor Messerli shook her head. "Whatever's been done has been done to an end. Your will is at work. You beg a result. A repercussion. A precedent has been established. You will get what you want. And there's no need to seek out these mistakes. For now it is they who seek you. — Jill Alexander Essbaum

It is true that, when an entitlement begins to be enjoyed by people, they like to keep it. — Jon Kyl

How short a period often reverses the character of our sentiments, rendering that which yesterday we despised, today desirable. — Ann Radcliffe

I like 'Futurama.' That's kind of the only thing that's my sci-fi thing, although I was big into zombies for a time. — Tatiana Maslany

'Glee Project' and 'Glee' have the same spirit, but they're both harder in their own ways. With 'Glee Project,' there's more pressure because you're being judged in everything you do. When you film 'Glee,' you go to the studio and have an off day, and it's OK - you're still going to be there; you take as many chances as you need. — Samuel Larsen

I here violate direct and explicit orders that were given to me, were given to me in the best interests of the United States of America. I here give you my true name, and I identify myself as the man you knew as "Frank Wirtanen." ... I exist. I can be seen, heard, and touched almost any day. — Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Men want power in order to do something. Boys want power in order to be something. — Eric Sevareid