Joseph Jastrow Quotes

#1. M: Don't go there. Besides, you want to tell me about this prom date? Hmm?
J: He's just a fiend. We barely know each other.
M: Nice, The stuff dreams are made of.

Kelly Bingham

#2. The world is as large as the range of one's interests. A narrow-minded man has a narrow outlook. The walls of his world shut out the broader horizon of affairs. Prejudice can maintain walls that no invention can remove.

Joseph Jastrow

#3. The development of beings with minds is probably the highest individuation the world has ever known, and its prehistory is the history of life on earth.

Susanne Katherina Langer

#4. In trial or difficulty I have recourse to Mother Mary, whose glance alone is enough to dissipate every fear.

Therese Of Lisieux

#5. In that the wisdom of the few becomes available to the many, there is progress in human affairs; without it, the static routine of tradition continues.

Joseph Jastrow

#6. In one study, old people assigned to a geriatrics team stayed independent for far longer, and were admitted to the hospital less.

Atul Gawande

#7. Gertrude Stein really thought of Hemingway as frail. He almost married Stein.

Leslie Fiedler

#8. You do not have to struggle to reach God, but you do have to struggle to tear away the self-created veil that hides him from you

Paramahansa Yogananda

#9. He is so kind that he makes me search my soul to find new ways to be compassionate to others.

Sharon Shinn

#10. Inventions become perfect by slow improvement, and each step is itself an invention.

Joseph Jastrow

#11. With a sword thou mayest kill thy father, and with a sword thou mayest defend thy prince and country.

Philip Sidney

#12. If you can't be in awe of Mother Nature, there's something wrong with you.

Alex Trebek

#13. Sometimes, like we all do, I look at myself in the mirror. Sometimes I cry. Like a really hard cry like you just watch yourself cry but then you're done and you're just glowing and you're staring at yourself.

Dane Cook