Harborless Quotes & Sayings

You have debased my child ... You have made him a laughingstock of intelligence ... a stench in the nostrils of the gods of the ionosphere. — Lee De Forest

To feed the hungry, clothe the naked and shelter the harborless without also trying to change the social order so that people can feed, clothe and shelter themselves is just to apply palliatives. It is to show a lack of faith in one's fellows, their responsibilitie s as children of God, heirs of heaven. — Dorothy Day

To serve the many, you first serve the few. — Ken Jennings

Heaven is right where you are standing, and that is the place to train. — Morihei Ueshiba

To expect people to be good, to be just, to be temperate, etc., without showing them how they should become so, seems like the ineffectual charity mentioned by the apostle, which consisted in saying to the hungry, the cold and the naked, be ye fed, be ye warmed, be ye clothed, without showing them how they should get food, fire or clothing. — Benjamin Franklin

I have discovered that many of the things I thought were priceless are as cheap as costume jewelry, and much of what I labeled worthless was, all the time, filled with the kind of beauty that directly nourishes my soul ... Now I think that the vast majority of us "normal" people spend our lives trashing our treasures and treasuring our trash. We bustle around trying to create the impression that we are hip, imperturbable, omniscient, in perfect control, when in fact we are awkward and scared and bewildered. — Martha Beck

Why do you need to be like anyone? You're good as you are, — Leo Tolstoy

God chooses the Pope and God also made men and women different. — Pope Francis

If you took any of my radio shows and you took the music out of them, they wouldn't be remotely the same thing. Music is really important. — Joe Frank

I don't have any secret sauce and I'm no smarter than anyone else. I will say I have surrounded myself with unbelievable talent that has made my job easier. — Howard Schultz

Freedom is a gift to use your will and perception to impose a moral structure on yourself. Without the freedom to choose our path, we are morally crippled. — Omar Saif Ghobash

There was a proposal in California that would keep out Wal-Mart but allow Costco. You opposed it. Are you nuts? That's true: I always oppose these kinds of things. Competition makes us better. Some of our best stores have a Sam's Club next door. — James Sinegal

It is true, we are such poor navigators that our thoughts, for the most part, stand off and on upon a harborless coast, are conversant only with the bights of the bays of poesy, or steer for the public ports of entry, and go into the dry docks of science, where they merely refit for this world, and no natural currents concur to individualize them. — Henry David Thoreau

By shifting the balance away from the individual we open the door for the individual. Because we make it obvious that anyone can do it given the right circumstance. — Malcolm Gladwell