Top 100 Eugene Quotes
#1. I would rather be arrested as a traitor than fight a war for Wall Street.
Eugene V. Debs
#2. We believe that this human life is a great gift, that every part of it is designed by God and therefore means something, that every part of it is blessed by God and therefore to be enjoyed, that every part is accompanied by God and therefore workable.
Eugene H. Peterson
#3. We learn the language of prayer by immersing ourselves in the language that God uses to reveal Himself to us.
Eugene H. Peterson
#4. I can't stand these damn shows on museum walls with neat little frames, where you look at the images as if they were pieces of art. I want them to be pieces of life!
W. Eugene Smith
#5. After two minutes after this time, and I am already there.
Eugene Ormandy
#6. The Tea Party is a group that rejects deep thinking, it rejects the very complex analysis that is involved in public policy, it rejects the kind of textured decision-making that Ronald Reagan prided himself on.
Eugene Jarecki
#7. I was a child of World War Two . I saw films of pilots taking off from aircraft carriers and decided that was the only thing I wanted to do. And it had to be flying from sea carriers. Airfields were not enough.
Eugene Cernan
#8. If I were hungry and friendless today, I would rather take my chances with a saloon-keeper than with the average preacher.
Eugene V. Debs
#9. No-not other than making a record that I was satisfied with. That's usually my only goal-to make it good enough to hopefully put out there. I just tried to finish what I started, as far as my ideas for the record. Hopefully I was able to do it.
David Eugene Edwards
#10. Joy is not a requirement of Christian discipleship, it is a consequence. It is not what we have to acquire in order to experience life in Christ; it is what comes to us when we are walking in the way of faith and obedience.
Eugene H. Peterson
#11. In his play "Long Day's Journey into Night, " Eugene O'Neill has one of his characters utter a powerful statement toward the end of her life: "None of us can help the things life has done to us. They are done before you realize it and once they are done, they make you do other things, until at
Ravi Zacharias
#12. What's the best type of light? Why that would be available light ... and by available light I mean any damn light is available.
W. Eugene Smith
#13. Something in me died at Peleliu. Perhaps it was the childish innocence that accepted as faith the claim that Man is basically good. Possibly I lost faith that politicians in high places, who do not have to endure war's savagery, will ever stop blundering and sending others to endure it.
Eugene B. Sledge
#14. We don't declare war any more; we declare national defense.
Eugene McCarthy
#15. The time and intelligence that our ancestors spent on understanding the sovereignty revealed in Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are directed by our contemporaries in affirming and validating the sovereignty of our needs, wants, and feelings.
Eugene H. Peterson
#17. Passion is in all great searches and is necessary to all creative endeavors.
W. Eugene Smith
#18. I am trying to teach my mind to bear the long, slow growth of the fields, and to sing of its passing while it waits.
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Eugene H. Peterson
#20. It's weird - the cab driver is playing very loud dance music and yet it doesn't really feel like a party.
Eugene Mirman
#21. God's great love and purposes for us are all worked out in messes in our kitchens and backyards, in storms and sins, blue skies, the daily work and dreams of our common lives. God works with us as we are and not as we should be or think we should be.
Eugene H. Peterson
#22. If you don't wake up at three in the morning and want to do something, you're wasting your time.
Harold Eugene Edgerton
#23. What beastly incidents our memories insist on cherishing, the ugly, and the disgusting; the beautiful things we have to keep diaries to remember.
Eugene O'Neill
#24. I am interested in cultivating the fundamentally holy nature of all language, including most definitely the casual, spontaneous , unselfconscious conversational language.
Eugene H. Peterson
#26. 6th grade. My dog, Katie, is hit by a car and killed. A mean girl during recess says it committed suicide because it didn't love me. I cry and swear revenge on mankind.
Eugene Mirman
#27. If things are really overwhelming and you need to talk, you can give me a call at 347-273-2044.
Eugene Mirman
#28. Many people have delusions of grandeur but you're deluded by triviality.
Eugene Ionesco
#29. Logic is a very beautiful thing. As long as it is not abused.
Eugene Ionesco
#30. When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong.
Eugene V. Debs
#31. We not only romanticize the future; we have also made it into a growth industry, a parlor game and a disaster movie all at the same time.
Eugene Kennedy
#32. MR. SMITH: Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear. [Silence.]
MR. MARTIN: Don't you feel well? [Silence.]
MRS. SMITH: No, he's wet his pants. [Silence.]
MRS. MARTIN: Oh, sir, at your age, you shouldn't. [Silence.]
MR. SMITH: The heart is ageless. [Silence.]
Eugene Ionesco
#33. And I didn't neglect to point out to my Yankee buddies that most of the high shooters in our platoon were Southern boys.
Eugene B. Sledge
#34. Spontaneities offer one kind of pleasure and taste of sanctity, repetitions another equally pleasurable and holy.
Eugene H. Peterson
#35. We encounter and enter our richest, most humanly defining experiences by way of a tear in the fabric of things, because we are running late, or because we recognize, across a crowded room, a face whose lack of perfection allows a unique light to shine through and to stir us with uncommon wonder.
Eugene Kennedy
#36. We want a system in which the worker shall get what he produces and the capitalist shall produce what he gets.
Eugene V. Debs
#37. There is nothing terribly difficult in the Bible - at least in a technical way. The Bible is written in street language, common language. Most of it was oral and spoken to illiterate people. They were the first ones to receive it. So when we make everything academic, we lose something.
Eugene H. Peterson
#38. Many claim I am a photographer of tragedy. In the greater sense I am not, for though I often photograph where the tragic emotion is present, the result is almost invariably affirmative.
W. Eugene Smith
#39. The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is its inefficiency.
Eugene McCarthy
#40. All men die in solitude; all values are degraded in a state of misery: that is what Shakespeare tells me
Eugene Ionesco
#41. Why do you always start after my beat then rush to catch up? Do you want us to stay behind?
Eugene Ormandy
#42. With us tonight is William Warfield, who is with us tonight. He is a wonderful man, and so is his wife.
Eugene Ormandy
#43. I hate doctors! They'll do anything ... to keep you coming to them. They'll sell their souls. What's worse, they'll sell yours, and you never know it till one day you find yourself in hell.
Eugene O'Neill
#44. Most traditional methods of working on oneself are mostly pain centered. People get to repeat over and over their painful emotions without knowing how to use the body's own inherently positive direction and force.
Eugene Gendlin
#45. As long as matters are really hopeful," wrote Chesterton, "hope is mere flattery or platitude. It is only when everything is hopeless that hope begins to be a strength at all. Like all the Christian virtues, it is as unreasonable as it is indispensable.
Eugene H. Peterson
#46. You wanna know what a gateway drug is? It opens a gate.
Eugene Mirman
#47. Summing up: Be agreeable, be sympathetic, be loving, be compassionate, be humble. That goes for all of you, no exceptions. No retaliation. No sharp-tongued sarcasm. Instead, bless - that's your job, to bless.
Eugene H. Peterson
#48. I'd like a stocking made for a giant, And a meeting house full of toys, Then I'd go out in a happy hunt For the poor little girls and boys; Up the street and down the street, And across and over the town, I'd search and find them everyone, Before the sun went down.
Eugene Field
#49. Pity can be nearsighted and condescending; shared suffering can be dignifying and life-changing.
Eugene H. Peterson
#50. I love comedy. Playing the underdog, and getting the laughs is my form of entertainment. I could think of nothing different that I would want to be doing at this time in my life.
Eugene Levy
#51. People are not problems to be solved. They are mysteries to be explored.
Eugene H. Peterson
#53. Don't think you are looking at me because you are not.
Eugene Ormandy
#54. We can't hear the balance yet because the soloist is still on the airplane.
Eugene Ormandy
#55. I personally would like to bring a tortoise onto the stage, turn it into a racehorse, then into a hat, a song, a dragoon and a fountain of water. One can dare anything in the theatre and it is the place where one dares the least.
Eugene Ionesco
#56. When I was a kid I used to get fun out of my horrors.
Eugene O'Neill
#57. That's how we stay young these days: murder and suicide.
Eugene Ionesco
#58. What kind of deal is it to get everything you want but lose yourself? What could you ever trade your soul for?
Eugene H. Peterson
#59. Reagan is held up to us as an example of never raising taxes. Correction: Reagan raised taxes six of his eight years as president. Why? He was a pragmatist, not doctrinaire. He saw problems emerging, and when his policies faltered he changed his views. Flexibility, not rigidity.
Eugene Jarecki
#60. A lot of people think that kids say the darnedest things. But so would you if you had no education. You'd just be like, I am bike cheese. Because you wouldn't know what words were.
Eugene Mirman
#61. Twice in his life Eugene Victor Debs took the long leap to the Ultima Thule of prison, passing beyond the realm of the acceptable into the nonacceptable, from respectability into the criminal community of the monster who was an enemy to the people.
Marguerite Young
#62. Oh righteous doom, that they who make Pleasure their only end, Ordering the whole life for its sake, Miss that whereto they tend. While they who bid stern duty lead, Content to follow, they, Of duty only taking heed, Find pleasure by the way.
Eugene Ionesco
#64. Never have I found the limits of the photographic potential. Every horizon, upon being reached, reveals another beckoning in the distance. Always, I am on the threshold.
W. Eugene Smith
#66. Christian discipleship is a decision to walk in his ways, steadily and firmly, and then finding that the way integrates all our interests, passions, and gifts, our human needs and eternal aspirations. It is the way of life we were created for.
Eugene H. Peterson
#67. As long as the differences and diversities of mankind exist, democracy must allow for compromise, for accommodation, and for the recognition of differences.
Eugene McCarthy
#68. But you'll never become a rhinoceros, really you won't ... you haven't got the vocation!
Eugene Ionesco
#69. If I were to prescribe one process in the training of men which is fundamental to success in any direction, it would be thoroughgoing training in the habit of accurate observation. It is a habit which every one of us should be seeking ever more to perfect.
Eugene Grace
#70. O God, when my faith gets overladen with dust, blow it clean with the wind of your Spirit. When my habits of obedience get stiff and rusty, anoint them with the oil of your Spirit. Restore the enthusiasm of my first love for you.
Eugene H. Peterson
#72. Man is born broken. He lives by mending. The grace of God is glue.
Eugene O'Neill
#73. The efficient market theory is one of the better models in the sense that it can be taken as true for every purpose I can think of. For investment purposes, there are very few investors that shouldn't behave as if markets are totally efficient.
Eugene Fama
#75. Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.
Eugene Delacroix
#76. Well, you wanted me to be a hero in blue, so you better be resigned! Murdering doesn't improve one's manners!
Eugene O'Neill
#77. The bawling of babies, always in a way
Inappropriate - why should the love and innocent
Greet existence with wails? - is proof that not all
Is well. Dreams and deliveries never quite mesh.
Eugene H. Peterson
#79. I would rather a thousand times be a free soul in jail than to be a sycophant and coward in the streets.
Eugene V. Debs
#80. Shakespeare was the great one before us. His place was between God and despair.
Eugene Ionesco
#81. The difference between Carter and [Ted] Kennedy: Carter has this vague religion which he believes in strongly, while Kennedy has this strong religion which he believes in vaguely.
Eugene McCarthy
#82. When you grab all you can get, that's what happens: the more you get, the less you are.
Eugene H. Peterson
#83. A privately owned world can never be a free world and a society based upon warring classes cannot stand.
Eugene V. Debs
#84. When we read more books, look at more pictures, listen to more music, than we can possibly absorb the result of such gluttony is not a cultured mind but a consuming one; what it reads, looks at, listens to, is immediately forgotten, leaving no more traces behind it than yesterday's newspaper.'12
Eugene H. Peterson
#86. Chicago is the product of modern capitalism, and, like other great commercial centers, is unfit for human habitation.
Eugene V. Debs
#87. Eugene McCarthy is definitely an inspiration to me as a Democrat and as someone going to the university. It is definitely important to me.
Vanessa L. Williams
#88. Our lives are merely strange dark interludes in the electric display of God the Father.
Eugene O'Neill
#89. I don't find pastors and professors, for the most part, very interested in matters of formation in holiness. They have higher profile things to tend to.
Eugene H. Peterson
#90. Let us pick up again these lost strands and weave them again into the fabric of America, sort out the music from the sounds and again respond to the trumpet and the steady drum.
Eugene McCarthy
#92. Breakthrough Advertising is not about building better mousetraps. It is, however, about building larger mice - and then building a terrifying fear of them in your customers.
Eugene Schwartz
#93. The greatest mistake marketers make is trying to create demand.
Eugene Schwartz
#94. Stay passed out, that's the right dope. There ain't any cool willow trees- except you grow your own in a bottle.
Eugene O'Neill
#95. As I looked at the stains on the coral, I recalled some of the eloquent phrases of politicians and newsmen about how "gallant" it is for a man to "shed his blood for his country," and "to give his life's blood as a sacrifice," and so on. The words seemed ridiculous. Only the flies benefited.
Eugene B. Sledge
#97. In the very progress of society, the prison has in the very nature of things undergone some improvement, but there are vast stretches yet to be covered before the prison becomes, if it ever does, an institution for the reclamation and rehabilitation of erring and unfortunate men and women.
Eugene V. Debs
#98. There was confusion since I stood here 35 years ago.
Eugene Ormandy
#99. I grew up in western Oregon, just outside Eugene, on 27 wooded acres that served as my playground.
Benjamin Percy
#100. The Bible makes it clear that every time that there is a story of faith, it is completely original. God's creative genius is endless.
Eugene H. Peterson
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