John Noble Holcomb quotes

John Noble Holcomb quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“You have to become involved to make an impact. No one is impressed with the won/loss record of the referee.”
-- John Noble Holcomb

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“How long does getting thin take?”
“Within a bony labrinthean cave, Reached by the pulse of the aerial wave, This sibyl, sweet, and Mystic Sense is found, Muse, that presides o'er all the Powers of Sound.”
“If we have no friends, we have no pleasure; and if we have them, we are sure to lose them, and be doubly pained by the loss.”
“There is no doubt that the Americans losses are very heavy because they are deployed across a wide area and among the people and because it is easy to procure weapons. All of which makes them easy and mouth watering targets for the believers.”
“A little rain, a little blood. Black fingernails in August; and going berserk, going bananas. As if entrapped in a tropical heatwave, with dozens of whirlwinds swirling in oneâ€™s mind, one thinks of a way out, or a way in: out of the scorching bosom of a volcano, and in â€“ into the centre of a raging hurricane. And tracing the labyrinthine ways of your mind, the haphazard vagaries of your thoughts at ease, the odds and ends of your mental surplus you carelessly throw at the world, one wants to be at a loss, in a maze; amazed, and amazingly unabashed.”
“The artist never really has any control over the impact of his work. If he starts thinking about the impact of his work, then he becomes a lesser artist.”
“Consider what kind of car you get. Buy cars and other products that have the least impact environmentally.”
“In the burning and devastated cities, we daily experienced the direct impact of war. It spurred us to do our utmost...the bombing and the hardships that resulted from them (did not) weaken the morale of the populace.”

Source : "Inside the Third Reich: Memoirs" by Albert Speer, (p. 363), 1970.
“Conservation is getting nowhere because it is incompatible with our Abrahamic concept of land. We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect. There is no other way for land to survive the impact of mechanized man, nor for us to reap from it the aesthetic harvest it is capable, under science, of contributing to culture”
“To truly find yourself, touch as many lives as possible!”

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