George Ripley Quotes

#1. If any imagine from the literary tone of the preceding remarks that we are indifferent to the radical movement for the benefit of the masses which is the crowning glory of the nineteenth century, they will soon discover their egregious mistake.

George Ripley

#2. Extremists tend to grow more extreme, not less, as problems get closer to solutions,

David Weber

#3. Then hast our the Red Stone perfect with less labour, expense of time and costs, for the which ever thank God.

George Ripley

#4. But in this Second Work if thou extract our Air and our Fire with the phlegm water, they will the more naturally and easily be drawn out of their infernal prison, and with less losse of their Spirits, than by the former way before described.

George Ripley

#5. Shave a gorilla and it would be almost impossible, at twenty paces, to distinguish him from a heavyweight champion of the world. Skin a chimpanzee, and it would take an autopsy to prove he was not a theologian.

H.L. Mencken

#6. You are here. You are here. You're still right here.

Richard Siken

#7. Tasting a dish should be memorable If nothing remains in the memory of a single guest, then I have made a mistake.

Alain Ducasse

#8. The growth of the soul may be compared to the growth of a plant. In both cases, no new properties are imparted by the operation of external causes, but only the inward tendencies are called into action and clothed with strength.

George Ripley

#9. We shall suffer no attachment to literature, no taste for abstract discussion, no love of purely intellectual theories, to seduce us from our devotion to the cause of the oppressed, the down trodden, the insulted and injured masses of our fellow men.

George Ripley

#10. I'll always be a foreigner.

Olivier Martinez

#11. To that movement, consecrated by religious principle, sustained by an awful sense of justice, and cheered by the brightest hopes of future good, all our powers, talents, and attainments are devoted.

George Ripley

#12. I have one sentiment for soldiers living and dead: cheers for the
living; tears for the dead.

Robert Green Ingersoll

#13. Also there is a similitude of a Trinity shining in the body, soul and spirit.

George Ripley

#14. Person who cannot control his words shows that he cannot control himself, and is unworthy of respect.

Robert Greene

#15. This is our mercury, our lunary, but whosoever thinks of any other water besides this, is ignorant and foolish, never attaining to the desired effects.

George Ripley

#16. Some people put more effort and money into the wedding day than they do into the marriage itself, then it's all downhill from there. I was happy for a simple start; things could only get better.

Sam Torode

#17. The body is the substance of the stone.

George Ripley