John Herman Randall quotes

John Herman Randall quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“Any individual can be, in time, what he earnestly desires to be, if he but sets his face steadfastly in the direction of that one thing, and bring all his powers to bear upon its attainment.”
-- John Herman Randall

Source : John Herman Randall (1911). “A New Philosophy of Life”

#Desire Quotes #Faces Quotes #Bears Quotes

“Do you know what it is to be a man violently in love? To live for a woman's smiles and laughter, to hunger for her touch until life itself seems impossible without it, to desire her as you desire to breathe?”
“The future will be like the past, in the sense that, no matter how amazing or technologically advanced a society becomes, the basic human rhythm of petty malevolence, sordid moneygrubbing, and official violence, illuminated by occasional bursts of loyalty or desire or tenderness, will go on.”
“There are no bad pictures; that's just how your face looks sometimes.”
“What are you gonna do for a face when the baboon wants his ***** back?”
“The best-case scenario is that the glass shatters in my face! How do you think that makes me feel?”
“Here is Edward Bear, coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump, on the back of his head, behind Christopher Robin. It is, as far as he knows, the only way of coming downstairs, but sometimes he feels that there really is another way, if only he could stop bumping for a moment and think of it. And then he feels that perhaps there isn't.”
“Maturity is the ability to do a job whether you're supervised or not; finish a job once it's started; carry money without spending it; and the ability to bear an injustice without wanting to get even.”
“Anyone can deal with victory. Only the mighty can bear defeat.”
“Intestine war no more our passions wage, And giddy factions bear away their rage.”
“A man can bear a world's contempt when he has that within which says he's worthy. When he contemns himself, there burns the hell.”

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