Mcphees Templeton Quotes & Sayings

I think one of the blessings that I've had in watching, you know, films be made now from four of my books is to realize that it's a separate thing. It's a separate work. — Scott Turow

You must never aspire to 'finish' a house, you can merely hope to start it, and from then on it's an evolutionary process. — Stephen Bayley

Always recompense kindness with hearty love and gratitude. — Debasish Mridha

The living environment is the biosphere, the thin layer around the world of living organisms. We're part of that. Our existence is dependent on it in ways that people haven't even begun to appreciate. Our existence depends not just on its existence, but its stability and its richness. — E. O. Wilson

I'm only wishing to go a-fishing;For this the month of May was made. — Henry Van Dyke

The offering up or cleaning up ego stuff is called purification. Purification is the act of letting go. This is done out of discriminative awareness. That is, you understand that you are an entity passing through a life in which the entire drama is an offering for your awakening. — Ram Dass

Jesus was not content to derive his ethics from the scriptures of his upbringing. He explicitly departed from them. [ ... ] Since a principal thesis of this chapter is that we do not, and should not, derive our morals from scripture, Jesus has to be honoured as a model for that very thesis. — Richard Dawkins

There is no such thing as starting where Cezanne left off. You have to start where he started ... at the beginning. — Kimon Nicolaides

Richard Clarke had plenty of opportunities to tell us in the administration that he thought the war on terrorism was moving in the wrong direction and he chose not to. — Condoleezza Rice

I began to understand that my life was measured in moments. There were moments that tested you, challenged you, and moments that could make you fall to your knees, begging for one more moment but you see, those moments defined you as a person. You need to take them as they come because before you know it, you're out of moments. — Shey Stahl

Christianity is an adventure of the spirit or it is not Christianity. — Alan Hirsch

We should not teach children the sciences; but give them a taste for them. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Nothing happens by itself ... it all will come your way, once you understand that you have to make it come your way, by your own exertions. — Ben Stein

You shouldn't be looking at the bottom of the mountain. Why don't you try looking at the top some time? — Robert Riskin

I sometimes give myself excellent advice. Occasionally, I even listen to it. — Jim Butcher