Quotes
Quotes - Miller
It isn't the oceans which cut us off from the worldâ it's the American way of looking at things.
To be absolutely certain about something, one must know everything or nothing about it.
All language reflects the prejudices of the society in which it evolved.
Our native language is like a second skin, so much a part of us we resist the idea that it is constantly changing, constantly being renewed.
Life, as it is called, is for most of us one long postponement.
There is no such thing as a worthless conversation, provided you know what to listen for. And questions are the breath of life for a conversation. -James Nathan Miller.
The only thing we never get enough of is love; and the only thing we never give enough of is love.
The world is not to be put in order, the world is order incarnate. It is for us to put ourselves in unison eith this order.
After seven years of marriage, I'm sure of two thingsâ first, never wallpaper together, and second, you'll need two bathrooms . . . both for her. The rest is a mystery, but a mystery I love to be involved in.
Serenity is knowing that your worst shot is still pretty good.
The question to everyone's answer is usually asked from within.
A recent conversation: Dubya: Look at the clock, time is racing! Cheney: That's the second hand, George.
It isn't the oceans which cut us off from the worldâit's the American way of looking at things.
Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
The question to everyone's answer is usually asked from within.
In some awful, strange, paradoxical way, atheists tend to take religion more seriously than the practitioners.
Remorse is impotence, it will sin again. Only repentance is strong, it can end everything.
That man who lives for self alone, Lives for the meanest mortal known.
Serenity is knowing that your worst shot is still pretty good.
Technology is fine. . ., but that popular vision of the future, where you plug somebody in and leave them there and they don't get out and interact with actual flesh-and-blood humansâ you know the answer before I say itâ that's not good.
If you get to be thirty-five and your job still involves wearing a name tag, you've probably made a serious vocational error.
You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they do.
