Edwin C Bliss Quotes

#1. Music can be soothing or invigorating ennobling or vulgarizing, philosophical or orgiastic. It has powers of evil as well as for good.

Howard Hanson

#2. Excessive record-keeping is a symptom of insecurity and defensive thinking. It indicates that you are less concerned attaining objectives than you are with documentation, and that your thinking is oriented to the past, not the present.

Edwin Bliss

#3. The debate about climate change in many ways is tied to the petroleum industry. If the value of petroleum was considerably less than it is, and the value of coal was considerably less than it is, there would be much less debate about this.

Chuck Klosterman

#4. Worship is a vigorous act of reordering our desires in the light of God's burning desire for the wellness of all creation. (pg. 152)

Ellen F. Davis

#5. What does competency in the long run mean? It means to all reasonable beings, cleanliness of person, decency of dress, courtesy of manners, opportunities for education, the delights of leisure, and the bliss of giving.

Edwin Percy Whipple

#6. It will soon be possible to transmit wireless messages around the world so simply that any individual can carry and operate his own apparatus.

Nikola Tesla

#7. Give me, for my life, all lives, give me all the pain of everyone, I'm going to turn it into hope. Give me all the joys, even the most secret, because otherwise how will these things be known? I have to tell them, give me the labors of everyday, for that's what I sing.

Pablo Neruda

#8. Pure felicity is reserved for the heavenly life; it grows not in an earthly soil.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

#9. At the end of the season of sorrows comes the time of rejoicing. Spring, like a well-oiled clock, noiselessly indicates this time.

Roger Zelazny

#10. Don't call the doctor, don't call ya mamma, don't call the preacher; no, I don't need it.

Diana Ross

#11. Yesterday is a canceled check: Forget it.
Tomorrow is a promissory note: Don't count on it.
Today is ready cash: Use it!

Edwin C. Bliss

#12. Tain't worthwhile to wear a day all out before it comes.

Sarah Orne Jewett