Craig L. Rice famous quotes

our deeds have even less substance than we ourselves.
-- Craig L. Rice

#Substance #Deeds #Action

one pities most those who loved, and still died. Only those who love, dread death.
-- Craig L. Rice

#Pity #Dread #Stills

Bad enough to make mistakes, without going ahead and marrying them.
-- Craig L. Rice

#Marriage #Mistake #Making Mistakes

It is less difficult to look beyond ... and foretell the future, than to look back and remember what has already gone before.
-- Craig L. Rice

#Looks #Gone #Remember

the Empire State Building was tall. So what? Just proved New York builders didn't know when to stop at a good story.
-- Craig L. Rice

#New York #Stories #Empires

it's been my experience that while impossible things happen frequently, improbable ones never do.
-- Craig L. Rice

#Impossible #Things Happen

things never seem as bad as they are.
-- Craig L. Rice

#Trouble

it is possible to wish so greatly for the unattained that in time you believe it has been won - indeed, you can even remember the winning of it ...
-- Craig L. Rice

#Believe #Winning #Thinking

... the world was beautiful, but nobody looked at it except tourists. ... a kind of perfection of existence was always close at hand, and no one reached for it.
-- Craig L. Rice

#Beautiful #Hands #Perfection

Beer is sacred business, a mood-altering food substance that may have preserved the human species. To drink beer is to be human.

Every day, nay every moment, try to do some good deed.

My acts are irrevocable Because they have no essence... Where are the doers of deeds Absent among their conditions? Imagine a magician Who creates a creature Who creates other creatures. Acts I perform are creatures Who create others.

Don't listen to their words, fix your attention on their deeds.

I have learned to prize the quiet, lightning deed, not the applauding thunder at its heels that men call fame.

Virtue must shape itself in deed.

Authentic values are those by which a life can be lived, which can form a people that produces great deeds and thoughts.

Nothing counts but pressure, pressure, more pressure, and still more pressure through broad organized aggressive mass action.

Fatherhood is a relationship of love and understanding It is power and action. It is counsel and instruction.

The world turns on our every action, and our every omission, whether we know it or not.