John E. Pepper, Jr. famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do.

  • Artists are often excellent businessmen. They have to be. Otherwise they do not remain artists.

  • People do make judgments of trust on appearance - in the real world and online.

  • Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.

  • Ethics and religion must not stay at home when we go to work.

  • The gods have fled, I know. My sense is the gods have always been essentially absent. I do not believe human beings have played games or sports from the beginning merely to summon or to please or to appease the gods. If anthropologists and historians believe that, it is because they believe whatever they have been able to recover about what humankind told the gods humankind was doing. I believe we have played games, and watched games, to imitate the gods, to become godlike in our worship of eachother and, through those moments of transmutation, to know for an instant what the gods know.

  • I believe the collapse of the House of Windsor is tied in with the collapse of the Church of England.

  • From moment then to moment their desire Gained strength, and wisdom fled before love's fire; Passion engulfed them, and these lovers lay Entwined together till the break of day.

  • When a passion is not realized ... it fades away, or becomes ideal worship--Dante--Petrarch--that sort of thing!

  • It is the rare architect who does not hope in his heart to design a great building and for whom the quest is not a quiet, consuming passion.