Ernestine Johnson Quotes & Sayings

In everything, love simplicity. — Saint Francis De Sales

Suddenly Shirley understood why her father had brought her 10,000 miles to live among strangers. Here, she did not have to wait for gray hairs to be considered wise. Here, she could speak up, question even the conduct of the President. Here, Shirley Temple Wong was somebody. She felt as if she had the power of ten tigers, as if she had grown as tall as the Statue of Liberty. — Bette Bao Lord

The original idea of the web was that it should be a collaborative space where you can communicate through sharing information. — Tim Berners-Lee

We've created the best indoor winter facility in the world. Having set that benchmark, it could inspire a whole new generation throughout the world. — Phil Taylor

I looked on, I thought, I reflected, I admired, in a state of stupefaction not altogether unmingled with fear! — Jules Verne

Many have doubts; few voice them. The silent tended to quickly condemn those honest few who air misgivings dormant deep within us all. — Sandra Byrd

There's very few shows that truly reflect specific ethnic experiences, and when they come and come right, they're a hit. — Aeriel Miranda

The strong are so stupid. — E. M. Forster

It is a bad temper of mind that takes delight in opposition. — Benjamin Franklin

The belief that all genuine education comes about through experience does not mean that all experiences are genuinely or equally educative. — John Dewey

The apostle enters upon his subject thus - Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers; for there is no power but of God: the powers that be, are ordained of God. — Jonathan Mayhew

In truth, however, the continual coming into existence of new beings and the annihilation of already existing ones is to be regarded as an illusion produced by a contrivance of two lenses (brain-functions) through which alone we can see anything at all: they are called space and time, and in their interpenetration causality. For everything we perceive under these conditions is merely phenomenon; we do not know what things are like in themselves, i.e. independently of our perception of them. This is the actual kernel of the Kantian philosophy. — Arthur Schopenhauer

Music burst through him, perfect notes he hear rarely. Fire and ice, wind and calm, sky and earth, water and rock all fused together. Joley seemed as wild and turbulent s the sea, yet beneath her fiery passion, at the very core of her, she was as forceful and strong and as constant as the deepest ocean currents. Ilya seemed as calm as a windless sea, yet beneath the surface smoldered a volcano of such explosive magnitude, his power could easily sweep everything from his path. Together they completed each other, his melody and hers merging together into a single, perfect harmony. — Christine Feehan

Don't keep excessive amounts of anything. Those glass vases that come from florists. Those ketchup packets that come with take-out food. A house with two adults probably doesn't need fifteen mismatched souvenir coffee cups. — Gretchen Rubin

There is no such thing as perpetual tranquillity of mind while we live here; because life itself is but motion, and can never be without desire, nor without fear, no more than without sense. — Thomas Hobbes