Stombaugh Batton Quotes & Sayings

We will not have served the water needs of Americans if we meet only the requirements of today's population. A prudent nation must look ahead and plan for tomorrow. — Lyndon B. Johnson

Where is there a boy to whom the call of the wild and the open road does not appeal? — Baden Powell De Aquino

We all disapprove of prostitution; but we do not all approve of purity. The only way to discuss the social evil is to get at once to the social ideal. We can all see the national madness; but what is national sanity? — G.K. Chesterton

The political left has been weak on protecting society from criminals for more than two centuries. — Thomas Sowell

The simplest way to lose your soul is to go with the flow because the flow is naturally down. Only live fish can swim against the current. Dead ones just conform to it. — Anonymous

We worked under a lot of pressure ... three days to do an episode, sometimes two in a week, 39 episodes a year. — Lloyd Bridges

The new tinge to modern minds is a vehement and passionate interest in the relation of general principles to irreducible and stubborn facts. All the world over and at all times there have been practical men, absorbed in 'irreducible and stubborn facts'; all the world over and at all times there have been men of philosophic temperament, who have been absorbed in the weaving of general principles. It is this union of passionate interest in the detailed facts with equal devotion to abstract generalisation which forms the novelty of our present society. — Alfred North Whitehead

When we meet the great men and women of the Bible face-to-face, we may be surprised to discover just how much like us they are. It is faith in a great God that makes a great man or woman of God. — Mike Bickle

Love without faith is as bad as faith without love. — Henry Ward Beecher

The pioneering spirit is less about thinking up new ideas, as ridding ourselves of dogmas and habits that hold us captive in thinking. — Bertrand Piccard

For life is an expression, our unconscious actions the constant betrayal of our innermost thought. — Okakura Kakuzo