Woodsworth College Quotes & Sayings

I know nothing which life has to offer so satisfying as the profound good understanding, which can subsist, after much exchange ofgood offices, between two virtuous men, each of whom is sure of himself, and sure of his friend. It is a happiness which postpones all other gratifications, and makes politics, and commerce, and churches, cheap. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Tipping Point is the biography of an idea, and the idea is very simple. It is that the best way to understand the emergence of fashion trends, the ebb and flow of crime waves, or, for that matter, the transformation of unknown books into bestsellers, or the rise of teenage smoking, or the phenomena of word of mouth, or any number of the other mysterious changes that mark everyday life is to think of them as epidemics. Ideas and products and messages and behaviors spread just like viruses do. — Malcolm Gladwell

It was not apathy or passiveness. For him, prayer was a display of the strongest possible activity. — Eric Metaxas

Don't look with your eyes.
Don't think with your mind.
Know with your heart. — Anita B. Sulser PhD

Judge righteously between every man and his brother, and the stranger that is with him. Ye shall not respect persons in judgement; but ye shall hear the small as well as the great; ye shall not be afraid of the face of man; for the judgement is God's. — Anonymous

Make a list of all the lovers you've ever had.
Warren Lasher
Ed "Rubberhead" Catapano
Charles Deats or Keats
Alfonse
Tuck it in your pocket. Leave it lying around, conspicuously. Somehow you lose it. Make "mislaid" jokes to yourself. Make another list. — Lorrie Moore

Winners bring reality up to their vision. Losers bring their vision down to reality. — Chuck Knox

The artist's job? To be a miracle worker: make the blind see, the dull feel, the dead to live ... — Edward Abbey

Whether or not the Christian faith is true is now irrelevant. All that matters is that to more and more people in the modern world it no longer seems true. — Os Guinness

Does knowledge dwindle and only the salt singing itself through sea and blood become the drink of poetry? — Terrance Lane Millet

The possession of a perfect knowledge of your business is an absolute necessity in order to insure success. — P.T. Barnum

Were there no devil, yet we should have our hands full, in resisting the corruptions of our own hearts; but — William Gurnall

Nothing binds a people to their leader like a common enemy. Voters don't change governments during war. — Harvey Fierstein

I've always been a guy that has strived for dominating, not only winning. — Jon Jones