Pointes North Quotes

#1. Humanity will destroy itself, body and soul, before it will learn a simple lesson.

Dan Wells

#2. Conversation with a friend will only bear good fruit of knowledge when both think only of the matter under consideration and forget that they are friends.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#3. Traditionally, the way deficits have been cut is you hold expenditures more or less constant in real dollars and then let growth come in to fill it up.

Phil Bredesen

#4. I'd worked at the White House for two years, and I'd read a bunch of White House memoirs because everybody who works at the White House, even for five minutes, writes a memoir usually not less than 600 pages long - and never without the word 'power' in the title.

Christopher Buckley

#5. We cannot know the mystery of the future.

Jimmy Carter

#6. Through the night we drove in a tangle of waking and sleeping, nightmares from hell and holy white dreams.

Glenda Millard

#7. Perhaps you're not crazy, but you're very creative.

Ellen Sussman

#8. I discovered that the horse is life itself, a metaphor but also an example of life's mystery and unpredictability, of life's generosity and beauty, a worthy object of repeated and ever changing contemplation.

Jane Smiley

#9. I am not here to please myself so don't expect me to please others.

Amit Abraham

#10. Nicholas of Cusa said we have to be educated into our ignorance or else the full presence of the divine will be kept at bay. We have to arrive at that difficult point where we don't know what is going on or what we can do. That precise point is an opening to true faith. The

Thomas Moore