John Luke Roberts Quotes & Sayings

We are often so caught up in our activities that we tend to worship our work, work at our play, and play at our worship. — Charles R. Swindoll

That claim was not intended to be a factual statement. — Jon Kyl

happiness is like those stars. They don't cover all the darkness; there are gaps between. We make mistakes in life and we misunderstand, and yet there remain gaps through which truth shines. — Rabindranath Tagore

Clearly, here is a man who adheres to a widely held theory of attacking the branches of evil. 1. Speak from an ivory tower but rarely take a cutting tool in hand, unless when advising others. 2. Lecture at length, inspire others to unselfish acts of civil disobedience or quiet resistance, but rarely perform such acts yourself. 3. Become a widely-heralded critic of the state from within a respected state institution. — Douglas Herman

Emergence is popular because it is the junk food of curiosity. You — Eliezer Yudkowsky

Cancer research is a growth industry. — George Carlin

Some men are born out of their due place. Accident has cast them amid certain surroundings, but they have always a nostalgia for a home they know not. — W. Somerset Maugham

The only thing better than going to Pitcairn in the first place, is going again. — Billy Campbell

Above all, we new pagans must learn to know and honor the Many as they manifest in our own time and place. While the ways of the ancestors - the Received Tradition - must always inform our thought and action, we are truest to our heritage when we think and act as natives of here and now. Our mandate is to be the pagans for our own time, our own place, our own post-modern, science-driven Western culture. This is the only kind of pagan that we can honestly be; anything else is pretense." - Steven Posch, "Lost Gods of the Witches: A User's Guide to Post-Ragnarok Paganism — John Halstead

Raise the bar and set yourself some new challenges. You can accomplish more than you think. — Rebecca Gordon

Hate can only exist where people refuse to speak out against it. — Yasmine Galenorn

You can't do anything sensible until you know what the situation is that you're in. — Julian Assange

Good. Show me a man who thinks that he knows what 'good' is, and I will probably be able to show you a horror of a person. Show me a person who really knows what 'good' is, and I will show you that he almost never uses the word. — Idries Shah