David Starr Quotes

#1. The problem of life is not to make life easier, but to make men stronger.

David Starr Jordan

#2. Wisdom is knowing. Skill is know how to do it. Virtue is doing it.

David Starr Jordan

#3. There is no real exellence in all this world which can be separated from right living.

David Starr Jordan

#4. Food to me, in one word, is 'creativity' or 'expression.' It's simply, 'This is who I am at this point in time, and this is what I want to cook for you.'

Graham Elliot

#5. Kind of. Just - we don't know what happens when we die, right? I mean, maybe we go up to some perfect place in the sky, or maybe we turn to dust, or we're spirits and can still think and hear and go places. So talking to the person that's dead isn't crazy. They could be listening to you. Right?

Heather Demetrios

#6. Wisdom is knowing what to do next; Skill is knowing how to do it, and Virtue is doing it.

David Starr Jordan

#7. The fundamental problem in the evangelical world today is that God rests too inconsequentially upon the church. His truth is too distant, His grace is too ordinary, His judgment is too benign, His gospel is too easy, and His Christ is too common.

David F. Wells

#8. I think Mulder is the worst FBI agent in the world. He spends millions of dollars investigating these paranormal phenomena and never comes up with any evidence. He's the Kenneth Starr of the FBI.

David Duchovny

#9. Sex in the body is fine. Money in the wallet is fine. It is only a problem when they enter your mind.

Jaggi Vasudev

#10. Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.

David Starr Jordan

#11. Humor is such a great gift - why leave it to chance?

Joel Goodman

#12. Our country is now at war and the only way out is forward. I would not change one word I have spoken against war but that is no longer the issue. We must now stand together.

David Starr Jordan

#13. The whole of our civilization is founded on specialization, which implies the enslavement of those who execute to those who coordinate ...

Simone Weil

#14. "I am not much of a mathematician," said the cigarette, "but I can add to a man's nervous troubles, I can subtract from his physical energy, I can multiply his aches and pains, I can divide his mental powers, I take interest from his work, and discount his chances for success."

David Starr Jordan

#15. Freedom. And Justice. If you have those two, it covers everything. You must stick to those principles and have the courage of your convictions.

Ian Smith

#16. When a dog barks at the moon, then it is religion; but when he barks at strangers, it is patriotism!

David Starr Jordan

#17. Rome endured as long as there were Romans. America will endure as long as we remain American in spirit and in thought.

David Starr Jordan

#18. Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.

David Starr Jordan

#19. If my life was to be just a single note in an endless symphony, how could I not sound it out for as long and as loudly as I could?

Lauren Wolk

#20. To say no at the right time, and then stand by it, is the first element of success. He is the wise man who, for all his life, can keep mind and soul and body clean.

David Starr Jordan

#21. The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows whither he is going.

David Starr Jordan

#22. It is possible to reclaim your future, to build a happy life despite an imperfect past. We can order the universe to our will and mind.

Katherine Marsh

#23. I was saving this as a special, 'congratulations for making it through your first year as a vampire without nonconsensual biting' present,

Anonymous

#24. There cannot be perfect civilization until Man realizes that the rights of every living creature are as sacred as his own.

David Starr Jordan

#25. Pray with a pure heart and pray from where you are. He will answer your prayers. There is no need to abandon the world or retreat to a jungle

Radhe Maa

#26. Whatever you attempt, go at it with spirit.

David Starr Jordan

#27. No one is really miserable who has not tried to cheapen life.

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#28. The only fault's with time; All men become good creatures: but so slow!

Robert Browning

#29. All war is murder, robbery, trickery, and no nation ever escaped losses of men, prosperity and virility. War knows no victor.

David Starr Jordan

#30. Whatever is not nailed down is mine." This is the motto of the exploiter. "Whatever can be pried loose is not nailed down." This is the second maxim in a country where people are rich, caring little in their present prosperity what shall become of the future.

David Starr Jordan

#31. He who is persistent will realize God. So try your best to make meditation a regular experience in your life.

Paramahansa Yogananda

#32. There is no pleasure in life equal to that of the conquest of a vicious habit.

David Starr Jordan

#33. No one can afford to look downward for his enjoyments.

David Starr Jordan