Jayaprakash Narayana Quotes & Sayings

Death is what takes place within us when we look upon others not as gift, blessing, or stimulus but as threat, danger, competition. — Dorothee Solle

If you've a notion of what man's heart is, wouldn't you say that maybe the whole effort of man on earth to build a civilization is simply man's frantic and frightened attempt to hide himself from himself? That there is a part of man that man wants to reject? That man wants to keep from knowing what he is? That he wants to protect himself from seeing that he is something awful? And that this 'awful' part of himself might not be as awful as he thinks, but he finds it too strange and he does not know what to do with it? We talk about what to do with the atom bomb ... But man's heart, his spirit is the deadliest thing in creation. Are not all cultures and civilizations just screens which men have used to divide themselves, to put between that part of themselves which they are afraid of and that part of themselves which they wish, in their deep timidity, to try to preserve? Are not all of man's efforts at order an attempt to still man's fear of himself? — Richard Wright

My wife and I, we met making a movie. This is not just our job, it's our life. It's what we do naturally whether we're working together or not. — Tom Hanks

I talked about God's presence being in a place in the Old Testament - the Holy of Holies. In the Gospels, God's Presence was in a person - Jesus Christ. But, since the day of Pentecost in Acts, God's presence indwells all who repent and surrender to Him. Those people are His church. Here is the progression: God's Presence in a Building - The Temple God's Presence in a Person - Jesus Christ God's Presence in a People - The Church — Pat Hood

Friends are true riches! — John Cameron Smith

If you try to give an on-the-one-hand-or-the-other- hand answer, only one of the hands tends to get quoted. — Alan Blinder

Cards are war, in disguise of a sport. — Charles Lamb

Fear is a powerful stimulant. — Margaret Atwood