Stygian Iron Quotes

#1. The navy is like a socialist country. Efficiency isn't part of the jargon.

James W. Blinn

#2. Propaganda does not aim to elevate man, but to make him serve .

Jacques Ellul

#3. You can love somebody without it being like that. You keep them a stranger, a stranger who's a friend.

Truman Capote

#4. It is good that a man should have his wife close at hand. It makes the spirit happy and guards against insanity.

Tony D'Souza

#5. Common sense isn't as common as its name implies

Douglas Thompson

#6. Pressure is what you feel when you don't know what's going on.

Chuck Noll

#7. Sometimes, perhaps, we are allowed to get lost that we may find the right person to ask directions of.

Robert Breault

#8. I want to be that Tantalus, unfed / forever, that my want's agony declare / that such as we want has nothing to say to the world; / if the world wants, it nothing wants for us. / Let me be unsatisfied.

William Bronk

#9. We seem to have lost our capacity for politeness and for genuine concern about the quality of our interactions in this hectic century.

James G. Stavridis

#10. Every good thing in the Christian life grows in the soil of humility. Without humility, every virtue and every grace withers. That's why Calvin said humility is first, second, and third in the Christian faith.

John Piper

#11. What is morality, she asked.
Judgement to distinguish right and wrong, vision to see the truth, and courage to act upon it, dedication to that which is good, integrity to stand by the good at any price.

Ayn Rand

#12. First the fact that the only items on open display seem to be tampons, breast pumps, and douches, making one feel as a female more soiled and wretched than even two thousand years of Catholic catechism could do.

Belle De Jour

#13. God does not care If I am bad or good- He wants my love, Not my sainthood.

Sri Chinmoy