Joseph Wolpe Quotes

There are men here and there to whom the whole of life is like an after-dinner hour with a cigar; easy, pleasant, empty, perhaps enlivened by some fable of strife to be forgotten - before the end is told - even if there happens to be any end to it. ~ Joseph Conrad

Our computers have become windows through which we can gaze upon a world that is virtually without horizons or boundaries. ~ Joseph B. Wirthlin

An honest private man often grows cruel and abandoned when converted into an absolute prince. Give a man power of doing what he pleases with impunity, you extinguish his fear, and consequently overturn in him one of the great pillars of morality. ~ Joseph Addison

Some of our Elders, and, in fact, some of the Twelve will tell you, 'yes, yes, the Order is a splendid principle and will bring happiness, etc., but it is not hardly time to enter into it, wait a little while until the people understand it better.' Why, they are fools! They don't know what they talk about. They have ears to hear and will not hearken, and have eyes to see and will not understand... When our conduct hedges up the way of angels how can they bless us?... How can they help us work out our salvation? When Joseph Smith was alive I can say that I never heard him lay one plan out for the people but would have been a success if it had been carried out as he directed. And I have seen the same thing in myself. I don't care how the world goes, what the President [of the U.S.] or his emissaries do. It matters nothing to me. What I am thinking of and interested about is how do the Latter-day Saints do? The devil is in the community and he has not been turned out... Well, I still have hope in Israel. ~ Brigham Young

I know that each of us has much to do. Sometimes we feel overwhelmed by the tasks we face. But if we keep our priorities in order, we can accomplish all that we should. We can endure to the end regardless of temptations, problems, and challenges. ~ Joseph B. Wirthlin

When I was growing up I noticed something. Every time I wanted to do something and I feared that I will fail, I always ended up failing. In life, whatever you fear always happen to you. ~ A.B. Joseph

Modern romance, like Greek tragedy, celebrates the mystery of dismemberment, which is life in time. The happy ending is justly scorned as a misrepresentation; for the world, as we know it, as we have seen it, yields but one ending: death, disintegration, dismemberment, and the crucifixion of our heart with the passing of the forms that we have loved. ~ Joseph Campbell

Let us follow the Son of God. Imitate Him. Do His work. ~ Joseph Fielding Smith

If I had inherited a fortune I should probably not have cast my lot with mathematics. ~ Joseph-Louis Lagrange

In that disputable point of persecuting men for conscience sake, I see such dreadful consequences rising, I would be as fully convinced of the truth of it, as a mathematical demonstration, before I would venture to act upon it or make it a part of my religion. ~ Joseph Addison

It's as though the inhabitants of the cities were outdistanced by the wisdom and the aspirations of the cities themselves. Things have a better feeling for the future than people do. People feel historically, i.e. retrospectively. Walls, streets, wires, chimneys feel prospectively. People get in the way of progress. They hang sentimental weights on the winged feet of time. ~ Joseph Roth

A country of free men is not free if they are owned by somebody else. ~ Joseph P. Sekula

Persecution has not stopped the progress of truth, but has only added fuel to the flame, ~ Joseph Smith Jr.

A computer can be a useful and indispensable tool. But if we allow it to devour our time with vain, unproductive, and sometimes destructive pursuits, it becomes an entangling net. ~ Joseph B. Wirthlin

What a friend we have in Jesus, all our sins and griefs to bear. What a privilege to carry everything to God in prayer. ~ Joseph M. Scriven

Fee, fi, fo, fum, I smell the blood of a Christian man, Be he dead, be he living, with my brand, I'll dash his brains from his brain-pan. ~ Joseph Jacobs

How can scholars continue to honor the unique and important histories of individual tribal nations and Indian communities while simultaneously drawing attention to ways that the nineteenth-century Native experiences shaped the United States in profound ways? ~ C. Joseph Genetin-Pilawa

We could not understand, because we were too far and could not remember, ~ Joseph Conrad

To make people free is the aim of art, therefore art for me is the science of freedom. ~ Joseph Beuys

What end but love, that stares death in the eye?

Sing me a song to make death tolerable, a song
of a man and a woman: the riddle of a man
and a woman. ~ Joseph N. Riddel

visionaries lives between 2 extremes ~ Ikechukwu Joseph

Don't let it be latent. Put it to use. Stir up the things God put into you to use. Don't let it die inside you. ~ Ikechukwu Joseph

And Me too, she heard all around her, intimate not falling away or apart, heard it from other women awakening in the new workshop world... ~ Joseph McElroy

Like the gazelle who doesn't know the rustle in the grass is a leopard, we didn't know what hit us until it was too late. ~ Joseph Sebarenzi

The moral virtues, without religion are but cold, lifeless, and insipid; it is only religion which opens the mind to great conceptions, fills it with the most sublime ideas, and warms the soul with more than sensual pleasures. ~ Joseph Addison

He awakened to the simple truth that it is never what a person says or does that affects him, it is his reaction to what is said or done that matters. ~ Joseph Murphy

The yarns of seamen have a direct simplicity, the whole meaning of which lies within the shell of a cracked nut. But Marlow was not typical (if his propensity to spin yarns be excepted), and to him the meaning of an episode was not inside like a kernel but outside, enveloping the tale which brought it out only as a glow brings out a haze, in the likeness of one of these misty halos that sometimes are made visible by the spectral illumination of moonshine. ~ Joseph Conrad

We never suffered ourselves to go into any important measure without asking Brother Joseph to inquire of the Lord in relation to it. Such was our confidence in him as a Prophet, that when he said "Thus saith the Lord," we were confident it would be as he said; and the more we tried it, the more confidence we had, for we never found his word fail in a single instance.

[DHC3:258] ~ Alexander McRae

Persons of delicate taste endure stupid criticism better than they do stupid praise. ~ Philibert Joseph Roux

I saw him open his mouth wide ... as though he had wanted to swallow all the air, all the earth, all the men before him. ~ Joseph Conrad

Your subconscious mind does not argue with you. It accepts what your conscious mind decrees. If you say, "I can't afford it," your subconscious mind works to make it true. Select a better thought. Decree, "I'll buy it. I accept it in my mind." ~ Joseph Murphy

Whatever his elders told him to do, he did. They told him to look before he leaped, and he always looked before he leaped. They told him never to put off until the next day what he could do the day before, and he never did. He was told to honor his father and his mother, and he honored his father and his mother. He was told that he should not kill, and he did not kill, until he got into the Army. Then he was told to kill, and he killed. He turned the other cheek on every occasion and always did unto others exactly as he would have had others do unto him. When he gave to charity, his left hand never knew what his right hand was doing. He never once took the name of the Lord his God in vain, committed adultery or coveted his neighbor's ass. In fact, he loved his neighbor and never even bore false witness against him. Major Major's elders disliked him because he was such a flagrant nonconformist. ~ Joseph Heller

Yes, the fullness of the gospel is a pearl of great price worth any effort. ~ Joseph B. Wirthlin

It's plain that a fence is of no consequence, If the ambulance works in the valley. ~ Joseph Malins