Joseph Fraunhofer Quotes

Life can have significance even if it appears to be a series of failures. ~ Joseph Cornell

I combat the errors of ages; I meet the violence of mobs; I cope with illegal proceedings from executive authority; I cut the gordian knot of powers, and I solve mathematical problems of universities, with truth-diamond truth; and God is my 'right hand man'. ~ Joseph Smith Jr.

Just have the patience to hear me out,
and I will tell you what I've been about. ~ Joseph Plumb Martin

It doesn't make sense. It isn't even good grammar. What the hell does it mean when they disappear somebody? ~ Joseph Heller

The words of the Quran all seemed strangely familiar yet so unlike anything I had ever read before,' he told us. He embraced Islam in 1977, and changed his name to Yusuf, the Arabic for Joseph. 'I identified with the story of Joseph in the Quran,' he said. 'His brothers sold him like goods in the market place.' Yusuf felt the music business had treated him not like an artist but as a commodity. ~ Kristiane Backer

Virtue by calculation is the virtue of vice. ~ Joseph Joubert

Homes are built on the foundation of wisdom
and understanding. ~ Ikechukwu Joseph

The place to cure most of the ills of society is in the homes of the people. ~ Joseph B. Wirthlin

A puff of wind blew out their skirts, and they looked like two wandering flags. ~ Joseph Roth

And in this case his great practice in it was assisted by hate, which, like love, has an eloquence of its own. ~ Joseph Conrad

Although the noise of the chattering clientele is much more significant than the topics of their chatter, it does finally constitute that type of social and indistinct expression that we refer to as rhubarb. The very particular volume in which people tell each other their news seems to generate all by itself that acoustic chiaroscuro, a sounding murk, in which every communication seems to lose its edges, truth projects the shadow of a lie, and a statement seems to resemble its opposite. ~ Joseph Roth

I've been informed by both sides, jazz, western music, Asian music, African music, all sides, because I've been interested in the sound of the universe, and that sound is without limit. ~ Joseph Jarman

Some great men owe most of their greatness to the ability of detecting in those they destine for their tools the exact quality of strength that matters for their work.
~ Joseph Conrad

Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors. ~ Joseph Addison

If I had done nothing more than bring McCabe's talents to the attention of what has become a world-wide audience--if I had done only this job, I believe I'd have established myself as a force for mass education and enlightenment with immediate and constructive effects on the thinking portion of the population. My association with McCabe has been enough to build a career for anyone.

{Julius on legendary scholar Joseph McCabe} ~ E. Haldeman-Julius

I'm not running away from my responsibilities. I'm running to them. There's nothing negative about running away to save my life. ~ Joseph Heller

When I grow up I want to be a little boy. ~ Joseph Heller

The less there is of you, the more you experience the sublime. ~ Joseph Campbell

And after all, one does not die of it." "Die of what?" I asked swiftly. "Of being afraid. ~ Joseph Conrad

Alma baptizes in the Waters of Mormon ~ Joseph Smith Jr.

There was nothing but myself between him and the dark ocean. I had a sense of responsibility. If I spoke, would ~ Joseph Conrad

Every legitimate authority should respect its extent and its limits. ~ Joseph Joubert

What better use for words than to inspire:
It's not by chance desire rhymes with fire. ~ Joseph Roccasalvo

History shows that there are no invincible armies. ~ Joseph Stalin

The Garden is a metaphor for the following: our minds, and our thinking in terms of pairs of opposites
man and woman, good and evil
are as holy as that of a god. (50) ~ Joseph Campbell

Contemporaries of Alexander Hamilton noticed his conspicuous sense of self-possession, his unique combination of serenity and energy. ~ Joseph J. Ellis

He loved me.
He loves me not. ~ Joseph Gordon-Levitt

God is making commerce His missionary. ~ Joseph Cook

A man who would not love his father's grave is worse than a wild animal. ~ Chief Joseph

That fine part of our construction, the eye, seems as much the receptacle and seat of our passions as the mind itself; and at least it is the outward portal to introduce them to the house within, or rather the common thoroughfare to let our affections pass in and out. ~ Joseph Addison

Physic, for the most part, is nothing else but the substitute of exercise and temperance. ~ Joseph Addison

Each person in the world is different and has their own beautiful sound in the symphony of life. ~ Joseph B. Wirthlin

America should find its interests in ways which are more consistent with the interests of other countries, which are things that are good for us but also good for others. That will make Americans exporters of hope again, not exporters of fear. ~ Joseph Nye

Since the family is the fundamental unit of society, the disintegration of the family inevitably and inexorably is leading to the disintegration of society itself. ~ Joseph A. Cirrincione

I am a lover of the cause of Christ and of virtue, chastity, and an upright, steady course of conduct and a holy walk. I despise a hypocrite or a covenant breaker. I judge them not; God shall judge them according to their works. I am a lover even of mine enemies, for an enemy seeketh to destroy openly. I can pray for those who despitefully use and persecute me, but for all I cannot hope. ~ Joseph Smith Jr.

LAUREN: You know, Cecil, I was never a Girl Scout myself, but I can say I am thrilled to support your endeavor to help bring your niece...I'm sorry. What was her name again?
CECIL: I don't want to um -
LAUREN: Janice. It was Janice. I love the way you are taking part in Janice's life. You must really care for her.
CECIL: Yes. With all my heart. But - ~ Joseph Fink

The fate of the Celt in the British Empire bids fair to resemble that of the Greeks among the Romans. ~ Joseph Jacobs

The Mind that lies fallow but a single Day, sprouts up in Follies that are only to be killed by a constant and assiduous Culture. ~ Joseph Addison

Every year, on the Emperor's birthday, he makes a resolution to begin a new life and not get into debt. And so he gets drunk. And comes home late at night, stands in the kitchen with drawn sword, and commands an entire regiment. The pots are platoons, the teacups are units, the plates are companies. Simon Demant is a colonel, a colonel in the service of Franz Joseph I. ~ Joseph Roth