Ivingspan Quotes & Sayings

I happen to love Saint-Saens in general. I think he's a brilliant composer and sometimes underrated in a way because people like to pass him off as fluffy and not being serious. — Joshua Bell

Assassins and presidents invite the same basic question: Just who do you think you are? — Sarah Vowell

Such a principled disregard of ad hominem evidence is a characteristically modern prejudice of professional philosophers. For most Greek and Roman thinkers from Plato to Augustine, theorizing was but one mode of living life philosophically. To Socrates and the countless classical philosophers who tried to follow in his footsteps, the primary point was not to ratify a certain set of propositions (even when the ability to define terms and analyze arguments was a constitutive component of a school's teaching), but rather to explore 'the kind of person, the sort of self' that one could elaborate as a result of taking the quest for wisdom seriously. — James Miller

These dons, so ponderous, so circuitous, , no sense of time. In a minute they'll be talking about the meaning of meaning. — John Le Carre

I take every role seriously. Personally, I never look at any role as Michael White. I've done that my entire life. — Michael Jai White

The enemy just hates our prayers. — Francis Chan

Where do you think you would be now if Jesus would not have saved you when He did. — Johnny Hunt

Fear is the tool of a man-made devil. Self-confident faith in one's self is both the man-made weapon which defeats this devil and the man-made tool which builds a triumphant life. And it is more than that. It is a link to the irresistible forces of the universe which stand behind a man who does not believe in failure and defeat as being anything but temporary experiences. — Napoleon Hill

Truth is the shortest and nearest way to our end, carrying us thither in a straight line. — John Tillotson

Leonardo Da Vinci combined art and science and aesthetics and engineering, that kind of unity is needed once again. — Ben Shneiderman

I never think too far into the future. I'm too busy thinking about tomorrow's news. — Matt Drudge

The feminists had destroyed the old image of woman, but they could not erase the hostility, the prejudice, the discrimination that still remained. — Betty Friedan

There's nothing man ever dreams of that God hasn't already thought of! — David Berg

The beginning of a journey is always uncertainty, but with uncertainty comes hope. — Lisa Wingate

What is to reach the heart must come from above; if it does not come from thence, it will be nothing but notes, body without spirit. — Ludwig Van Beethoven