Ji Packer Quotes & Sayings

Judge: And what is your occupation in general?
Brodsky: Poet, poet-translator.
Judge: And who recognized you to be a poet? Who put you in the ranks of poet?
Brodsky: No one. And who put me in the ranks of humanity?
Judge: Did you study it? ... How to be a poet? Did you attempt to finish an insitute of higher learning ... where they prepare ... teach
Brodsky: I did not think that it is given to one by education.
Judge: By what then?
Brodsky: I think that it is from God. — Joseph Brodsky

In the absence of truth, power is the only game in town. — Richard John Neuhaus

This is called synchronicity - a state in which you almost feel as if you are in a collaborative arrangement with fate. — Wayne Dyer

No longer do we accept the 'sublimation model' according to which 'the function of art is to sublimate or transform experience, raising it from ordinary to extraordinary, from commonplace to unique, from low to high'. — Rosalind E. Krauss

He who would be useful, strong, and happy must cease to be a passive receptacle for the negative, beggarly, and impure streams of thought. — James Allen

Nobody has any business to use the word "progress" unless he has a definite creed and a cast-iron code of morals. — G.K. Chesterton