John Sheridan famous quotes

And I tell you one thing, if the primates that we came from, had know that someday politicians would come out of the gene pool, they would have stayed up in the trees and written evolution off as a bad idea.
-- John Sheridan

#Ideas #Tree #Evolution

If you're falling off a cliff, you may as well try to fly. You've got nothing to lose.
-- John Sheridan

#Fall #Trying #May

Tell the other rangers, the ambassadors, everyone is this army of light. Babylon 5 stands with you. Tell them, tell them that from this place with will deliver notice to the parliaments of conquerors that a line has been drawn against the darkness and we will hold that line no matter the cost.
-- John Sheridan

#Army #Light #Darkness

Put your money where your mouth is.
-- John Sheridan

#Saving Private Ryan #Teeth #Mouths

I learned about choices and consequences and responsibility. I learned that we all have choices, even when we don't recognize them, and that those choices have consequences, not just for ourselves, but for others. We must assume responsibility for those consequences.
-- John Sheridan

#Responsibility #Choices #Assuming

If you're gonna wait for the universe to start making sense, you have a long wait ahead of you.
-- John Sheridan

#Long #Waiting #Make Sense

I don't have time to worry about them when they are not.
-- John Sheridan

#Worry

Ideas may drift into other minds, but they do not drift my way. I have to go and fetch them. I know no work manual or mental to equal the appalling heart-breaking anguish of fetching an idea from nowhere.

The Tarot embodies symbolical presentations of universal ideas, behind which lie all the implicits of the human mind, and it is in this sense that they contain secret doctrine, which is the realization by the few of truths embedded in the consciousness of all.

My idea of the perfect bottom would be nice, bubbly, curvy, firm, maybe a little bit bouncy.

Writing essays and teaching composition have helped me immensely in writing poetry, because they've forced me to focus on the structure of ideas.

Loveliest of trees, the cherry now Is hung with bloom along the bough.

Censorship is saying: 'I'm the one who says the last sentence. Whatever you say, the conclusion is mine.' But the internet is like a tree that is growing. The people will always have the last word - even if someone has a very weak, quiet voice. Such power will collapse because of a whisper.

It is no use painting the foot of the tree white, the strength of the bark cries out from beneath the paint.

The moral improvement demands an evolution leading to a higher consciousness

We can truly see that consciousness is operating creatively even in biology, even in the evolution of species.

History is not Time; nor is evolution. They are both consequences. Time is a state: the flame in which there lives the salamander of the human soul