Phil Boyte Quotes & Sayings

A man's own addition to what he learns is cement to bind an otherwise loose heap of stones into a structure of unity, strength, and use. — George Iles

Once you start doing a lot, you don't ever want to stop working. It feels weird if you're not doing something. — Jack Whitehall

The curse that came before history has laid on us all a tendency to be weary of wonders. If we saw the sun for the first time it would be the most fearful and beautiful of meteors. Now that we see it for the hundredth time we call it, in the hideous and blasphemous phrase of Wordsworth, "the light of common day." We are inclined to increase our claims. We are inclined to demand six suns, to demand a blue sun, to demand a green sun. Humility is perpetually putting us back in the primal darkness. There all light is lightning, startling and instantaneous. Until we understand that original dark, in which we have neither sight nor expectation, we can give no hearty and childlike praise to the splendid sensationalism of things. — G.K. Chesterton

Men generally pay for all expenses on a date ... either sex, however, may bring a little gift, its value to be determined by the bizarrness of the sexual request to be made later that evening. — P. J. O'Rourke

I'm not a feminist, but I just think it's a really cool process working with a woman as a director. — Melanie Griffith

I do not want to suggest that you have to be religious to be moral. — Jonathan Sacks

The sea was as dark as dreams and as deep as sleep — Orhan Pamuk

Sin eventually destroys my capacity even for enjoyment, let alone meaning. It distorts my perceptions, alienates my relationships, inflames my desires, and enslaves my will. — John Ortberg