Ilp Quotes & Sayings

We are beginning to learn that intangibles have more specific gravity than we suspected, that ideas can generate as much forward thrust as Atlas missiles. We may win a victory in exploring the infinities of outer space, but it will be a Pyrrhic victory unless we can also explore the infinities of our inner spirit. We have supersensitive thermographs to show us the slightest variations in skin temperature. No devices can teach us the irrelevance of skin color. WE can transplant a heart from one person to another in a brilliant feat of surgical virtuosity. Now we are ready to try it the hard way: transplanting understanding, compassion, and love from one person to another. — Lloyd Alexander

Precepts in Buddhism and commandments in Judiasm and Christianity are important jewels that we need to study and practice. They provide guidelines that can help us transform our suffering. — Thich Nhat Hanh

She didn't love him and he didn't love her; she was like an addiction, and what they were doing had a darkness to it, a weight. — Kim Edwards

Over the wine-dark sea. — Homer

Go down any road far enough
and you'll come to a slaughterhouse,
but keep going and you'll reach the sea. — Dean Young

It is only through books that we partake of the great harvest that is human civilization across the ages. — Ibrahim Babangida

Being right too soon is socially unacceptable. — Robert A. Heinlein

A bore is someone who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company. — Oscar Wilde

On 'Saturday Night Live,' you wear so many hats there. You're the prop person, the actor, you're everything. — Casey Wilson

The Master said, "Wealth and honor are things that all people desire, and yet unless they are acquired in the proper way I will not abide them. Poverty and disgrace are things that all people hate, and yet unless they are avoided in the proper way I will not despise them.
"If the gentleman abandons ren, how can he be worthy of that name? The gentleman does not violate ren even for the amount of time required to eat a meal. Even in times of urgency or distress, he does not depart from it."
(Analects 4.5) — Confucius

Christianity can be condensed into four words: Admit, Submit, Commit and Transmit. — Samuel Wilberforce

Success takes us to the top and away from those we love. — Wynonna Judd