Quotes
Authors
Ted Simon

"To be worth making at all a journey has to be made in the mind as much as in the world of objects and dimensions. What value can there be in seeing or experiencing anything for the first time unless it comes as a revelation? And for that to happen, some previously held thought or belief must be confounded, or enhanced, or even transcended. What difference can it make otherwise to see a redwood tree, a tiger, or a humming bird?"

Source : Ted Simon (1984). “Riding Home”

Ted Simon

#Journey Quotes #Differences Quotes #Bird Quotes

“Great advantages are often attended with great inconveniences, and great minds called to severe trials.”
“Obviously VIA DOLOROSA is completely artificial. It is as highly wrought as any of my plays. But basically all the artifice is to disguise itself so you don't feel it's there. You're attempting to make the artifice like a pane of glass that simply leads you through to the subject - not to decorate the bloody glass.”
“A few years ago, they [Neandertals] were thought to be ancestral to anatomically modern humans, but now we know that modern humans appeared at least 100,000 years ago, much before the disappearance of the Neandertals. Moreover, in caves in the Middle East, fossils of modern humans have been found dated 120,000-100,000 years ago, as well as Neandertals dated at 60,000 and 70,000 years ago, followed again by modern humans dated at 40,000 years ago. It is unclear whether the two forms repeatedly replaced one another by migration from other regions, or whether they coexisted in some areas”
“For years we've been telling God to get out of our schools, to get out of our government and to get out of our lives. And being the gentleman He is, I believe He has calmly backed out. How can we expect God to give us His blessing and His protection if we demand He leave us alone?”

Source : "Ben Stein, God, and Me". Interview with Norman Horowitz, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 15, 2006.
“I give you my hand, I give you my love more precious than money, I give you myself before preaching or law; Will you give me yourself?”
“I have never advised the destruction of life, but of property, yes.”
“Here and there among men, there are those who pause in the hurried rush to listen to the call of a life that is more realâ€¦ He who sees and hears too much is cursed for a dreamer, a fanatic, or a fool, by the mad mob who, having eyes, see not, ears and hear not, and refuse to understandâ€¦”

Source : Harold Bell Wright (1907). “The Shepherd of the Hills”
“Don't let anyone, or any rejection, keep you from what you want.”

You may also like: