Harry Gordon Johnson famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.

  • The safe place lies in obedience to God's Word, singleness of heart and holy vigilance.

  • Could man be drunk for ever       With liquor, love, or fights, Lief should I rouse at morning       And lief lie down of nights. But men at whiles are sober       And think by fits and starts, And if they think, they fasten       Their hands upon their hearts.

  • 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.

  • When a sailor overcomes crushing adversity, there's a massive sense of accomplishment.

  • Whatever sense of professional competence we feel in adult life is less the sum of accomplishment than the absence of impossibility: it's really our relief at no longer having to do things we were never good at doing in the first place - relief at never again having to dissect a frog or memorize the periodic table.

  • Stop seeing the obstacles you face as reasons why you can't do something. See them as a reason why you can. And celebrate your accomplishments on a daily basis.

  • As it turns out, there is a thing called the Internet, and stuff does go out there whether the suits like it or not.

  • I woke up an hour before I was supposed to, and started going over the mental checklist: where do I go from here, what do I do? I don't remember eating anything at all, just going through the physical, getting into the suit. We practiced that so much, it was all rote.

  • There is an eternal dispute between those who imagine the world to suit their policy, and those who correct their policy to suit the realities of the world.