Sydney Jary Quotes & Sayings

You don't do things because of the rewards or because someone may remember you after you are gone. The satisfaction is in the doing. Whether or not someone remembers does not really matter. — Esther Peterson

I can't tell you why there's a delay, but stick your head out of the window and you'll know why. — Dizzy Dean

Those who dissolve their body of perception completely are absorbed into what we would call nirvana. — Frederick Lenz

If your broker or investment advisor is not familiar with the concept of standard deviation of returns, get a new one. — William J. Bernstein

There is still time to avoid the worst impacts of climate change, if we take strong action now. — Nicholas Stern

You always like to learn from people as a young actor. I think every young actor says that, but it's true. — Tom Weston-Jones

You have taught yourself to read English, too," Pepe said slowly to the boy; the girl suddenly gave him the shivers, for no known reason. "English is just a little different - I can understand it," the boy told him, — John Irving

The places of pilgrimage have marked a kind of geography of faith in our country, that is, they make visible, almost tangible, how our forefathers encountered the living God, how HE did not withdraw after creation or after the time of Jesus Christ, but is always present and works in them so that they were able to experience HIM, follow in his footsteps, and see him in the works HE performed. Yes, HE is there, and HE is still there today. It is from this inner encounter with the Lord that there originated the places and images of pilgrimage in which we, so to speak, can participate in what they saw, in what their faith provided for them. — Pope Benedict XVI

Knowing God is like listening to beautiful music. His words have power. He lifts me up & soothes my soul. He makes me dance. He gives me joy. — Germany Kent

It would be lovely to sleep in a wild cherry-tree all white with bloom in the moonshine — L.M. Montgomery

I am not attracted to writers by style. What style do Dickens, Grass, and Vonnegut have in common? How silly! I am attracted to what makes them angry, what makes them passionate, what outrages them, what they applaud and find sympathetic in human beings and what they detest about human beings, too. They are writers of great emotional range. — John Irving

The great are only great because we are on our knees. Let us rise — Pierre-Joseph Proudhon