Philip Margolin Quotes

Leave now and live, or stay here and die. Your choice. ~ Phillip Margolin

The rule apparently is – once a social revolution takes place there's
no need to stoke the boiler. But I ask you: why, when this whole business started, should everybody suddenly start clumping up and down the marble staircase in dirty galoshes and felt boots? Why must we now keep our galoshes under lock and key? And put a soldier on guard over them to prevent them from being stolen? Why has the carpet been removed from the front staircase? Did Marx forbid people to keep their staircases carpeted? Did Karl Marx say anywhere
that the front door of No. 2 Kalabukhov House in Prechistenka Street must be boarded up so that people have to go round and come in by the back door? What good does it do anybody? Why can't the proletarians leave their galoshes downstairs instead of dirtying the staircase?'
'But the proletarians don't have any galoshes, Philip Philipovich,' stammered the doctor. ~ Mikhail Bulgakov

I'm being sent back to my time, but - I love you, Philip. At any age, in any body, in any era ... I love you. ~ Alexandra Monir

you can't hide from a hurricane under a beach umbrella ~ Philip Rahv

The poet, he nothing affirmeth, and therefore never lieth. ~ Philip Sidney

Human behavior isn't necessarily logical, nor does it necessarily conform to our expectations. What each of us thinks of as logical is a reflection of our own beliefs, and of our own moral compass. ~ Philip Houston

Williams was complex and tortured. He was not a saint but had his saintly side, which came and went, radiant and sincere as long as it lasted. ~ Philip Zaleski

The art of marketing is the art of brand building. If you arenot a brand, you are a commodity. Then price is everything and the low-cost producer is the only winner. ~ Philip Kotler

You have to roll up your sleeves and be a stonecutter before you can become a sculptor - command of craft always precedes art: apprentice, journeyman, master. ~ Philip Gerard

Should you protect profits? Yes. But run for the hills? No. ~ Philip Roth

Other people's weakness can destroy you just as much as their strength can. Weak people are not harmless. Their weakness can be their strength. ~ Philip Roth

Why are we here? God wants us to flourish, and paradoxically we flourish best by obeying rather than rebelling, by giving more than receiving, by serving rather than being served. ~ Philip Yancey

Baritone, cultivated, rolling-out-smooth voice familiar to Reiss. 'This is Doktor Goebbels. ~ Philip K. Dick

Words contain the "souls" or minds of people in the past; as such, they tell the story of consciousness. ~ Philip Zaleski

Philip knew by now that whenever anyone was angry with him his first thought was to say something about his club-foot. His estimate of the human race was determined by the fact that scarcely anyone failed to resist the temptation. ~ W. Somerset Maugham

People actually live with their id exposed. They're not good at concealing what's going on inside. ~ Philip Seymour Hoffman

The Yirkalla aborigines of Arnhem Land in Australia hear sacred song words in the babbling of babies. To them, songs are never composed but only discovered: all songs exist already. ~ Philip Ball

Grace dispensers give out of their own bounty, in gratitude (a word with the same root as grace) for what we have received from God. We serve others not with some hidden scheme of making converts, rather to contribute to the common good, to help humans flourish as God intended. ~ Philip Yancey

It's not about saving humanity. It never has been. Mantrella, THE WAKING GOD TRILOGY ~ Philip F. Harris

Philip K. Dick died
and now we only need
what is strictly necessary. ~ Roberto Bolano

We've heard them all talk about Dust, and they're so afraid of it, and you know what? We believed them, even though we could see that what they were doing was wicked and evil and wrong ... We thought Dust must be bad too, because they were grown up and they said so. But what if it isn't? What if it's - '
She said breathlessly, 'Yeah! What if it's really good ... ~ Philip Pullman

…I interviewed ordinary people about prayer. Typically, the results went like this: Is Prayer important to you? Oh, yes. How often to you pray? Every day. Approximately how long? Five minutes – well, maybe seven. Do you sense the presence of God when you pray? Occasionally, not often. Many of those I talked to experienced prayer more as a burden than as a pleasure. They regarded it as important, even paramount, and felt guilty about their failure, blaming themselves. Does this sound familiar? (pp. 14/Prayer: Does It Make Any Difference?) ~ Philip Yancey

That is a question with too complicated an answer. ~ Philip Pullman

Many of the greatest works of philosophy seem to me to be valuable not because of their arguments, but because they offer us perspectives that open up new possibilities. They show us how we might start in different places, and not buy into the assumptions tacitly made on the first pages of the philosophical works that have influenced us. ~ Philip Kitcher

Never walk over a writer, I said to myself, unless you're positive he can't rise up behind you. If you're going to burn him, make sure he's dead. Because if he's alive, he will talk: talk in written form, on the printed, permanent page. ~ Philip K. Dick

I come from a family of Russian immigrant Jews who were all big storytellers, who would get together, and one would try to top the others' stories, and stories would get bigger and bigger. And the lying aspect, the exaggeration, would get large. ~ Philip Schultz

I attempt to channel my anger into the tip of my forefinger as I press the shutter. ~ Philip Jones Griffiths

Walk with the dead
For fear of death. ~ Philip Larkin

Probably the most potent desire for a painter, an image-maker, is to see it. To see what the mind can think and imagine, to realize it for oneself, through oneself, as concretely as possible. ~ Philip Guston

Whereas European films have traditionally been able to go into adult relationships. I think there's a huge audience in America for those kinds of films. ~ Philip Kaufman

That's really an exceedingly sophisticated idea, epistemologically speaking. Does it mean that parts of the world are spurious? Or that sometimes the whole world is spurious? Or that there are plural worlds of which one is real and the others are not? Is there essentially one matrix world from which people derive differing perceptions? So that the world you see is not the world I see? ~ Philip K. Dick

Do you think I need anything else?" "You could do with some sense," came the reply. "Some faculty to enable you to recognize wisdom and incline you to respect and obey it. ~ Philip Pullman

There is no route out of the maze. The maze shifts as you move through it, because it is alive. ~ Philip K. Dick

To be reborn hourly and daily in this life, we need to die-to give of ourselves wholly to the demands of the moment, so that we utterly "disappear." Thoughts of past, present, or future, of life and death, of this world and the next, are transcended in the superabundance of the now. Time and timelessness coalesce: this is the moment of eternity. Thus our every act is a matter either of giving life or taking it away. If we perform each act with total absorption, we give life to our life. If we do things half-heartedly, we kill that life. ~ Philip Kapleau

Any affectation whatsoever in dress implies, in my mind, a flaw in the understanding. ~ Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl Of Chesterfield

One thing is sure, O comrades, that the love
That fights to keep us rooted in the earth,
But also urges us to dare the stars,
This irresistible, this ancient power
Wedged in the soul, unshakable, is the light
That burns our roots and leaves us free for Space. ~ Philip Jose Farmer

Technical staff were fairly good at estimation but were poor at defending their estimates ~ Philip Metzger

Don't expect art and you'll find art in the unexpected. ~ Philip David Hogan