Funny Howard Thurman Quotes

Follow the grain in your own wood ... ~ Howard Thurman

During times of war, hatred becomes quite respectable, even though it has to masquerade often under the guise of patriotism. ~ Howard Thurman

Keep fresh before me the moments of my high resolve. ~ Howard Thurman

A bigot is a person who makes an idol of his commitments. ~ Howard Thurman

Do not be silent; there is no limit to the power that may be released through you. ~ Howard Thurman

There is a certain grandeur and nobility in administering to another's need out of one's fullness and plenty. One ~ Howard Thurman

Growth always involves the risk of failure. ~ Howard Thurman

At the core of life is a hard purposefulness, a determination to live. ~ Howard Thurman

Community cannot for long feed on itself; it can only flourish with the coming of others from beyond, their unknown and undiscovered brothers. ~ Howard Thurman

There are two questions that we have to ask ourselves. The first is 'Where am I going?' and the second is 'Who will go with me?' ~ Howard Thurman

Of all weapons, love is the most deadly and devastating, and few there be who dare trust their fate in its hands. ~ Howard Thurman

Keep alive the dream; for as long as a man has a dream in his heart, he cannot lose the significance of living. ~ Howard Thurman

There must be always remaining in every life, some place for the singing of angels, some place for that which in itself is breathless and beautiful. ~ Howard Thurman

Life wears down the edges of the mind. ~ Howard Thurman

Fate is the raw materials of experience. They come uninvited and often unanticipated. Destiny is what a man does with these raw materials. ~ Howard Thurman

Love has no awareness of merit or demerit; it has no scale ... Love loves; this is its nature. ~ Howard Thurman

He recognized with authentic realism that anyone who permits another to determine the quality of his inner life gives into the hands of the other the keys to his destiny. ~ Howard Thurman

To love is to make of one's heart a swinging door. ~ Howard Thurman

The Christian Church has tended to overlook its Judaic origins, but the fact is that Jesus of Nazareth was a Jew of Palestine when he went about his Father's business, announcing the acceptable year of the Lord. ~ Howard Thurman

He who fears is literally delivered to destruction. ~ Howard Thurman

Christmas is a mood, a quality, a symbol. It is never merely a fact. ~ Howard Thurman

Don't ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive. ~ Howard Thurman

If a man knows precisely what he can do to you or what epithet he can hurl against you in order to make you lose your temper, your equilibrium, then he can always keep you under subjection. ~ Howard Thurman

It has long been a matter of serious moment that for decades we have studied the various peoples of the world and those who live as our neighbors as objects of missionary endeavor and enterprise without being at all willing to treat them either as brothers or as human beings. ~ Howard Thurman

There is a quiet courage that comes from an inward spring of confidence in the meaning and significance of life. Such courage is an underground river, flowing far beneath the shifting events of one's experience, keeping alive a thousand little springs of action. ~ Howard Thurman

Perfect love is long delayed. ~ Howard Thurman

Twilight - a time of pause when nature changes her guard. All living things would fade and die from too much light or too much dark, if twilight were not. ~ Howard Thurman

The years, the months, the days, and the hours have flown by my open window. Here and there an incident, a towering moment, a naked memory, an etched countenance, a whisper in the dark, a golden glow these and much more are the woven fabric of the time I have lived. ~ Howard Thurman

In the stillness of the quiet, if we listen, we can hear the whisper of the heart giving strength to weakness, courage to fear, hope to despair. ~ Howard Thurman

[A] strange necessity has been laid upon me to devote my life to the central concern that transcends the walls that divide and would achieve in literal fact what is experienced as literal truth: human life is one and all men are members of one another. And this insight is spiritual and it is the hard core of religious experience. ~ Howard Thurman

And this is the strangest of all paradoxes of the human adventure; we live inside all experience, but we are permitted to bear witness only to the outside. Such is the riddle of life and the story of the passing of our days. ~ Howard Thurman

There were long stretches where each of us was engaged in a private world of rapidly shifting vignettes. Always I was overwhelmed by the sheer number of human beings ebbing and flowing like the tides of the sea. ~ Howard Thurman

Jesus rejected hatred because he saw that hatred meant death to the mind, death to the spirit, and death to communion with his Father. He affirmed life; and hatred was the great denial. ~ Howard Thurman

The guy had guts - I had to give him that. Later on I was hoping for a first-hand look at them. ~ Rob Thurman

When the song of the angels is stilled, when the star in the sky is gone,
when the kings and princes are home,
when the shepherds are back with their flocks, the work of Christmas begins: to find the lost,
to heal the broken,
to feed the hungry,
to release the prisoner,
to rebuild the nations,
to bring peace among the people, to make music in the heart. ~ Howard Thurman

There is something in every one of you that waits and listens for the sound of the genuine in yourself. It is the only true guide you will ever have. And if you cannot hear it, you will all of your life spend your days on the ends of strings that somebody else pulls. ~ Howard Thurman

I was not particularly bright, I wasn't very athletic, I was a little too tall, odd, funny looking, I was just really weird as a kid. ~ Uma Thurman

What I have written is but a fleeting intimation of the outside of what one man sees and may tell about the path he walks. No one shares the secret of a life; no one enters into the heart of the mystery. ~ Howard Thurman

The fact that the bodies weren't my first concern–-pissing and bodies were, in that order - -helped too. Killers have different priorities. ~ Rob Thurman

I'm about being funny. If I can make a joke using profanity, I will. But for the most part, that can get awfully old and boring. ~ Howard Stern

Grocery lists I lost; my shit list was forever. ~ Rob Thurman

All of his life had been about making sure I kept mine. ~ Rob Thurman

Remember: blonde, brunette, and redhead are not personality types. ~ Howard Mittelmark

Above and beyond all else it must be borne in mind that hatred tends to dry up the springs of creative thought in the life of the hater, so that his resourcefulness becomes completely focused on the negative aspects of his environment. The urgent needs of the personality for creative expression are starved to death. A man's horizon may become so completely dominated by the intense character of his hatred that there remains no creative residue in his mind and spirit to give to great ideas, to great concepts. ~ Howard Thurman

Wouldn't you leave a light on? Knowing what I knew and not knowing anything else at all, why would I want the darkness where the monsters hide?
Because killers hide there too. ~ Rob Thurman

Get a grip, change your shorts, and move on to the task at hand. ~ Rob Thurman

Look at the ex-demon with his big boy pants on now. ~ Rob Thurman

He touched my little brother - I stopped his heart.
It was a fair trade. ~ Rob Thurman

But hoping you never saw someone again is a damn sight different from wishing them dead. ~ Rob Thurman

Spartacus," I called, "how's it hanging?" Probably not too well. Once you're dead, had your organs removed, and are resurrected as an undead mummified cat, your testicles probably looked like old raisins that had rolled under the couch. Raisins didn't tend to ... hang. ~ Rob Thurman

I'd be a monster fighter who rode the bus. It didn't get any more bad-ass than that. ~ Rob Thurman

A penny saved is worth two pennies earned ... after taxes. ~ Randy Thurman

You're the little spoon, aren't you? ~ Rob Thurman

Change is usually preceded by some kind of drift. ~ Uma Thurman

The place was out in Jersey ... Newark. And while that made living with yourself harder, it did make parking somewhat easier. ~ Rob Thurman

Chord substitution isn't some mysterious religious sect. ~ Howard Roberts

And he had it all over Octavian, let me tell you. Hung like a Pegasus, he was. ~ Rob Thurman

Life sweeps you up. Some people resist a lot. I probably haven't resisted very much. ~ Uma Thurman

Inner child, what do you suggest? 'I WANT A TREEHOUSE!' Anything else to add? 'FARTY NOISE UNDER THE ARM!' ~ Russell Howard

I am reminded again that the greatest phrase ever written is words, words, words. ~ Wallace Thurman

Tom Hanks is fantastic - he is one of my dad's good friends, and he's very warm and funny. ~ Bryce Dallas Howard

I would talk in iambic pentameter if it were easier. ~ Howard Nemerov

I before e, Except after c, Or when sounded as a, As in neighbor or weigh. ~ Susan Thurman

Lies were like acid, corrosive: They could dissolve trust in a heartbeat. ~ Rob Thurman

They don't have to choose either/or. They can have their cake and mutilate it too. ~ Rob Thurman

Insecurity, however, is a luxury on which I never economize. ~ Judith Thurman

I think humans will find their humanity sometime, somehow. ~ Robert Thurman

Boredom is a great motivator. ~ Uma Thurman

What I usually do is tell funny stories from the road, many of which are, of course, unprintable. But I don't actually have a joke. I don't tell jokes much. I tell little stories. ~ Howard Dean

It's true. Goodfellow is monogamous. he's become a freak. A pervert. Depravity on the cloven hoof."
"Or his balls fell off," suggested another puck who came to the bar. "Or his dick. Anyone who would hang out with Bacchus is bound to get a catastrophic genital rotting illness at some point. ~ Rob Thurman

Well, I have one consolation. No candidate was ever elected ex-president by such a large majority! ~ William Howard Taft

What're you still doing up? You know all good little ninjas should be in bed, visions of homicidal sugarplums dancing in their heads. ~ Rob Thurman

You can't choose, who you are. No matter how you struggle, some things will never change. And maybe they schouldn't. ~ Rob Thurman

The basic fact is that Christianity as it was born in the mind of this Jewish thinker and teacher appears as a technique of survival for the oppressed. That it became, through the intervening years, a religion of the powerful and the dominant, used sometimes as an instrument of oppression, must not tempt us into believing that it was thus in the mind and life of Jesus. 'In him was life; and the life was the light of men.' Wherever his spirit appears, the oppressed gather fresh courage; for he announced the good news that fear, hypocrisy, and hatred, the three hounds of hell that track the trail of the disinherited, need have no dominion over them. ~ Howard Thurman

Never underestimate the distance that one simple act of kindness can carry you. ~ Thurman P. Banks Jr.

Unhappy is a people that has run out of words to describe what is going on. ~ Thurman Arnold

There are a lot of truths in this world. When it rains it pours. It's always darkest before the dawn. He who smelt it dealt it. ~ Rob Thurman

People
stupid when they lived; potentially stupid when they died. ~ Rob Thurman

I am daily making myself what I am. ~ Robert Thurman

Live fully each day to the full ... ~ Robert Thurman

Plans?" he snorted. "I'm ninety-three years old! Who in tarnation makes plans at my age? I could stop breathin' any minute now. ~ Linda Howard

No sane person fears nothingness. ~ Robert A.F. Thurman

Who do you take me for?" "The devil?" Please. The devil wished he had half my style and a fourth my schemes. ~ Rob Thurman

There is only one person I wake up every morning striving to be better than, and that is myself. ~ Thurman P. Banks Jr.

She was more of a marble statue under a cascade of moonlight, smelling like flowers and ivy - the glory of a weeping graveyard angel. ~ Rob Thurman

Pooh hater,' I muttered under my breath.
'Winnie-the-Pooh was not a koala
why am I even arguing about this with you? ~ Rob Thurman

Are you recycling? Are you!? You just killed a polar bear! YOU! ~ Russell Howard

I still love the people I've loved, even if I cross the street to avoid them. ~ Uma Thurman

The person who is tormenting the Tibetans feels they have to get rid of the Tibetans in order to be happy. ~ Robert Thurman

People in Tibet have an expression. When you reach a certain degree of venerableness and age, and people ask, "How are you?," there is an expression that people use that means, "Just barely not dead." Some people might be frightened by it but I think it's quite funny. ~ Robert Thurman

We all have our security blankets in this world. Some are just sharper than others. ~ Rob Thurman

Snap judgments? I'd gotten over those about the time I was toilet trained. Swore off diapers and faith in the human experience all in one week. ~ Rob Thurman

Told me that when you bury emotions like that, you're only pissing them off ... making them stronger, because you're burying them alive. They don't like that, and one day they'll make sure that you don't like it either. ~ Rob Thurman

When you're three, you're into custard, and jumping. ~ Russell Howard

I never ever slept again after my first pregnancy. ~ Uma Thurman

Even, today, when people tell me I'm beautiful, I do not believe a word of it. ~ Uma Thurman

Tall, sandy blonde, with sort of blue eyes, skinny in places, fat in others. An average gal. ~ Uma Thurman

I love Urban Fantasy, even though I'm inevitably compared to 'Supernatural,' only a little more edgy. ~ Rob Thurman

Home is where the heart is or where you bury the ones you want to eat later. ~ Rob Thurman

From the makers of Alien vs. Predator: Alien vs. Pingu. K9 - stop humping the toaster! ~ Russell Howard