James Cross Giblin famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Beware of rashness, but with energy and sleepless vigilance go forward and give us victories.
Acting is a business and a political act and a craft, but I also feel like it's a service - specifically, for a military audience.
'Firewall' seems both scary and protective at the same time. And how often does that happen within one word besides 'military' and 'government?'
It doesn't have to be the Grand Canyon, it could be a city street, it could be the face of another human being - Everything is full of wonder.
To be a husbandman, is but a retreat from the city; to be a philosopher, from the world; or rather, a retreat from the world, as it is man's, into the world, as it is God's.
I love new cities, and if I haven't travelled for a month, the need to go somewhere starts to gets under my skin.
The Potemkin city of which I wish to speak here is none other than our dear Vienna herself.
Well, fancy giving money to the Government! Might as well have put it down the drain.
[The U.S. government] was tired of treaties. They were tired of sacred hills. They were tired of ghost dances. And they were tired of all the inconveniences of the Sioux. So they brought out their cannons. 'You want to be an Indian now?' they said, finger on the trigger.
The whole history of Israel, its ritual and its government, is explicable only as it is typical of the spiritual Israel, of the sacrifice on Calvary, of the precious blood which alone can wash away sin.

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