Rufus Jones Quotes

#1. If you have not clung to a broken piece of your old ship in the dark night of the soul, your faith may not have the sustaining power to carry you through to the end of the journey.

Rufus Jones

#2. There must be amidst all the confusions of the hour a tried and undisturbed remnant of persons who will not become purveyors of coercion and violence, who are ready to stand alone, if it is necessary, for the way of peace and love among men.

Rufus Jones

#3. The trouble with most comedians who try to do satire is that they are essentially brash, noisy and indelicate people who have to use a sledge hammer to smash a butterfly.

Imogene Coca

#4. I'm a big fan of the Pre-Raphaelites. Millais, Edward Burne-Jones, and I realised recently that my music is Pre-Raphaelite in a certain way, in that it reinvents an older era and romanticises it, puts it in this gilded frame.

Rufus Wainwright

#5. Every political sect has its esoteric and its exoteric school
its abstract doctrines for the initiated; its visible symbols, its imposing forms, its mythological fables, for the vulgar.

Thomas B. Macaulay

#6. Don't you DARE use party as a verb in my shop

Dylan Moran

#7. There is no way to find yourself until you discover how utterly to lose yourself.

Rufus Jones

#8. We deserved our chance at life. At love. At figuring out what any of this meant. It was far from a romance. But it was still a love story. And it was ours. I was going to stop at nothing until we had our happy ending.

T.M. Frazier

#9. Whether in times of war or times of peace the Quaker is under peculiar obligation to assist and to forward movements and forces which make for peace in the world and which bind men together in ties of unity and fellowship.

Rufus Jones

#10. In any case, fighting will not settle whether the claims were just or unjust. It will only settle which nation can mobilize and handle its fighting forces and its economic forces the better.

Rufus Jones

#11. Nobody gets muscles by watching ME lift weights.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

#12. I'm a conservative, and I'm a compassionate conservative. And I think it's important that Florida continues to move in that direction.

Charlie Crist

#13. I pin my hopes to quiet processes and small circles in which vital and transforming events take place.

Rufus Jones

#14. When the war ends, it will be found that there was an equal amount of 'thuggery' practiced on both sides, that terrible things were done to force the final victory.

Rufus Jones

#15. There should be many judges, for few will always do the will of few.

Niccolo Machiavelli

#16. There is no great future for any people whose faith has burned out.

Rufus Jones

#17. It turns out that there are swaths of habitat in the north of Siberia and Yukon that actually could house a mammoth. Remember, this was a highly plastic animal that lived over tremendous climate variation.

Hendrik Poinar

#18. When one makes you happy, the other makes you worried. Its just a balancing phenomena. So be the same person what ever the situation you are in.

Giridhar Alwar

#19. In human relationships, as mutual love deepens, there comes a time when two friends convey their exchanges without words. They can sit in silence sharing an experience or simply enjoying each other's presence without saying anything.

Thomas Keating

#20. Nations are not thugs. They are bodies of intelligent people.

Rufus Jones

#21. Temperance is a bridle of gold; he, who uses it rightly, is more like a god than a man.

Robert A. Burton

#22. I did have a dog for a few years when I was little, but then just really had cats until I was about 21.

Eric Roberts

#23. Death of a parent, he wrote, despite our preparation, indeed, despite our age, dislodges things deep in us, sets off reactions that surprise us and that may cut free memories and feelings that we had thought gone to ground long ago.

Joan Didion