Selection of Values

Selection of Values

But it does appear that a certain dullness of mind is almost an essential quality, if not for every public man, at least for everyone who is seriously interested in making money.
- Dostoyevsky

And indeed, once he has passed his examinations and served his time for thirty-five years, who in our country can fail to become a general eventually, and manage to pile up a tidy sum in the bank? This is how a Russian achieves almost effortlessly the reputation of being a capable and practical man. In fact, not to become a general is possible here only for an original man; in other words, a restless and searching man . . .
- Dostoyevsky

They seemed to have flung away all the golden grain of practical wisdom, which they had enjoyed so many opportunities of harvesting, and most carefully to have stored their memories with the husks. They spoke with far more interest and unction of their morning’s breakfast, or yesterday’s, today’s, or tomorrow’s dinner than of the shipwreck of forty or fifty years ago, and all the world’s wonders which they had witnessed with their youthful eyes. – Nathaniel Hawthorne

Foolish beyond measure is therefore the Christian who lives his life merely for the beautification of the dung hills of earth or hoped-for rewards from the condemned throngs of elegant, sinful men and women. How tragic is any life which merely polishes the brass on the sinking ship of earth and prepares not itself for the rulership of eternity. How pathetic is the naïve saint who chafes at the absence of earthly reward or human acclaim, which things are filthy rags compared to the honors and eternal rewards of heaven. Is it not time for the church to wake up to these facts? – Dave Breese

You can make a name for yourself; you can hear those tires squeal. You can be known as the most beautiful woman who ever crawled across cut glass to make a deal. – Bob Dylan

Of course it is possible to try not to get involved in man’s dilemma; but the only way not to get involved in the dilemma of man is by being young enough, well enough, having money enough, and being egotistic enough to care nothing about other human beings. – Francis Schaeffer

But the noble man makes noble plans, and by noble deeds he stands. – Isaiah 32:8

People, I know some of you take this class seriously. – Dr. Portfleet

I saw thousands who could have overcome the darkness. For the love of a lousy buck I watched them die. – Bob Dylan

Charlie don’t surf. – The Clash

Don’t follow leaders, watch parking meters. – Bob Dylan

Time can turn on you like a corkscrew. – T-Bone Burnett

Men at ease have contempt for misfortune as the fate of those whose feet are slipping. – Job

At a certain point you can only die. – Bruce Cockburn

What I got ain’t painful; it’s just bound to kill me dead. – Bob Dylan

Twenty-two thousand days, it’s all we’ve got; it’s not a lot, twenty-two thousand days. – The Moody Blues

Castles made of sand fall into the sea, eventually. – Jimi Hendrix

And the waves roll on the shore like a squadron of F-16’s. – Bruce Cockburn

They dress the wound of my people as though it were not serious. - Jeremiah

Some world-views are spacious, and some are merely spaced. – Rush

What we want and what we need has been confused. – REM

Well the deputy walks on hard nails and the preacher rides a mount, but nothing really matters much, it’s doom alone that counts. And the one-eyed undertaker, he blows a futile horn. – Bob Dylan

Do I understand your question, man, “Is it hopeless and forlorn?” – Bob Dylan

But, I live in another world, where life and death are memorized. Where the earth is strung with lover’s pearls, but all I see are dark eyes. – Bob Dylan

They say it's mostly vanity that writes the plays we act, they tell me that's what everybody knows. There's no such thing as sanity, and that's the sanest fact. And that's the way the story goes. - Mark Knopfler

Don't hate nothing at all except hatred. - Bob Dylan