Michael Flynn famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Any fool can hope when success lies plainly in view. It wants genuine strength to hope when matters are hopeless.
-- Michael Flynn

#Lying #Views #Want
The soul is the form of the body, but not as the shape of a statue is formatio et terminatio materiae, for form does not exist apart from material. There is no whiteness without a white object. But the soul is not a form in this simple sense, and in particular, is not the shape of the material it informs. Therefore, the shape of a being does not affect the being's soul, for then something lower would inform something higher, which is impossible.
-- Michael Flynn

#Simple #White #Soul
The body's ills are the least of ills, for they end only in death, which is but a little thing. But if the spirit dies, then all is lost.
-- Michael Flynn

#Body #Littles #Spirit
Exercising during the cold and flu season will help people stay in shape, and most likely fight off colds or reduce the number of days a person is ill. The cold season should not be an excuse for the average person to refrain from exercising - working out at the gym, a brisk walk in the park or a jog through the neighborhood.
-- Michael Flynn

#Exercise #Fighting #Average
One cannot love a world. It is too large. But a fleck of ground so far as his eye can see, one may hold precious above all.
-- Michael Flynn

#Eye #His Eyes #World
Could distance in one direction differ from distance in another? It's always faster coming home.
-- Michael Flynn

#Distance #Home #One Direction

I walk up a dune to a beach and look out to sea, but it's 100km away. The ships lie askew in their dry beds, at anchor for ever. Today is my son's birthday. Thousands of miles from here, his healthy lungs are blowing out candles. I should be there but I'm here with another boy, who puts his face close to mine and laughs. I smile back but realise he can't see it, because I'm wearing an antiseptic muzzles to protect me from his breath.
Could man be drunk for ever Â Â Â With liquor, love, or fights, Lief should I rouse at morning Â Â Â And lief lie down of nights. But men at whiles are sober Â Â Â And think by fits and starts, And if they think, they fasten Â Â Â Their hands upon their hearts.
Wanderers eastward, wanderers west, Know you why you cannot rest? 'Tis that every mother's son Travails with a skeleton. Lie down in the bed of dust; Bear the fruit that bear you must; Bring the eternal seed to light, And morn is all the same as night.
I think I feel rather differently about sympathy to what seems the normal view. I like just to feel it is there, but not always expressed.
In our view, successful reform is not an event. It is a sustainable process that will build on its own successes - a virtuous cycle of change.
Upon the subject of education ... I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people may be engaged in.
I have feelings that are to the right, and I have feelings that land on the left side of the aisle. The thing is if you have 10 views that land you on the left side of the aisle and two views that land you on the right side of the aisle, then people just put you on the right side of the aisle. I'm not sure why.
OK, the rule is, you can [make love to] an elephant if you want to, but if you do you can't cover the circus.
You have to love what you do to want to do it everyday.
My parents just tell me, â€˜If you know what you want, you should stay determined and go for it. You can do anything.â€™

Michael Flynn famous quotes

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