Richard Ignace: quotes


Ecc 3:11 -- ... He has also set eternity in their heart, ... (Solomon)

Ecc 12:12 -- Of making many books there is no end, and much study is a weariness of the flesh. (Solomon)

The things that will destroy America are: prosperity at any price, peace at any price, safety first instead of duty first, and love of soft living and the get-rich-quick theory of life. (T. Roosevelt)

Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once. (unknown; or at least I don't know)

Silence is the killing noise. (copyright - R. Ignace - 1999)

For the complete skeptic, everything is lose-lose. (copyright - R. Ignace - 2001)

Our society is essentially predicated on the proposition of free will - that humans can make real choices. The alternative is that behind every foible is a sickness, and that personal responsibility is non-existent. (copyright - R. Ignace - 2002)

If you aim at nothin', you'll hit it everytime. (unknown; or at least I don't know)

Religion and science are opposed ... but only in the same sense as that in which my thumb and forefinger are opposed - and between the two, one can grasp everything. (reputedly Sir William Bragg)

The great illusion of leadership is to think that others can be led out of the desert by someone who has never been there. (Henri Nouwen)



Disclaimer: The sentiments expressed here may not be those of East Tennessee State University nor the Department of Physics, Astronomy, and Geology, and possibly not even anyone else in all the world. :)