We are often attracted to the wrong things, whether it be money, fame, or approval.
Lovers of print are simply confusing the plate for the food.
We're often so busy cutting through the undergrowth we don't even realise we're in the wrong jungle.
While men are gazing up to Heaven, imagining after a happiness, or fearing a Hell after they are dead, their eyes are put out, that they see not what is their birthright.
I have looked warily at anthropologists ever since the day when I went to hear a great Greek scholar lecture on the Iliad, and listened for an hour to talk about bull-roarers and leopard-societies.
You are adrift while you still think that a means is an end.
Trying to “fix” the people in your life that cause you pain is like massaging your shoes because your feet ache.
He's so busy looking inside people to find the good that he misses the knife they're holding in their hand.
Look, Congress has allocated more money to finance the upcoming Iraqi elections than it has for the American elections. There's something wrong with that.
We do not rest satisfied with the present.... So imprudent we are that we wander in the times which are not ours and do not thinkof the only one which belongs to us; and so idle are we that we dream of those times which are no more and thoughtlessly overlook that which alone exists. For the present is generally painful to us.
The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion.
When a church is spending more of its budget on media than shepherding, something is out of whack. We have gotten things twisted around.
In the ardor of pursuit men soon forget the goal from which they start.
The most important thing about Olympics, of course, is the games and not the opening ceremony. It's weird the way it gets inverted sometimes.
If you find yourself concentrating on the technology rather than the sociology, you're like the vaudeville character who loses his keys on a dark street and looks for them on the adjacent street because, as he explains, "The light is better there."
When you give your all as an artist, and all people can talk about is what pants you're wearing, it's really frustrating.
Those who consider the inessential to be essential And see the essential as inessential Don't reach the essential, Living in the field of wrong intention
I knew the shirt-swapping business in general was getting out of hand when opponents would ask me for my shirt while we were still mid-match. Those are the wrong priorities.
I think if women put some more of the time and money they put on their heads in their heads, they’d be better off.
