Joseph Campbell Quotes

We're so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget the inner value, the rapture that is associated with being alive, is what it is all about.

Joseph Campbell

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: March 26, 1904 - October 31, 1987

Topics

ValueDoingAliveAchieveForget

Lord, make my way prosperous, not that I achieve high station, but that my life may be an exhibit to the value of knowing God.

Jim Elliot

LifeGodValueMy LifeAchieveWay

You know, my Grandpop Finnegan used to have an expression: he used to say, 'Joey, the guy in Olyphant's out of work, it's an economic slowdown. When your brother-in-law's out of work, it's a recession. When you're out of work, it's a depression.'

Joe Biden

WorkDepressionYouKnowSayOut

Back when we were first making records, you didn't just make the music, you put a great deal of energy into the way it looked, and every word that was written on the whole thing.

Ann Wilson

MusicGreatEnergyYouBackWay

The thing people forget is that the entire world - or, at least, Europe, U.S., transatlantic, Russia, Soviet Union - that security architecture has been in place since 1945 and has been refined. Already, the U.N. charter that everyone signed is that you can't change borders through use of force or even threat of use of force.

Toomas Hendrik Ilves

ChangeArchitecturePeopleWorldYou

I do a lot of referendums. They can't talk back. They don't have wives. They don't have friends who tell you how to run the campaign. They are supported by special interests, so there's a lot of money in them.

Roger Stone

MoneyFriendsYouBackRunTalk

There's a few in our history, where the person who creates it becomes almost the product itself. Jobs is one of those.

Joshua Michael Stern

HistoryPersonProductWhereAlmost

My children, to the extent that they have found religion, have found it from me, in that I insist on at least a modicum of religious education for them.

Christopher Hitchens

EducationChildrenReligionMeFound

When I was picked to fly the X-1, it was my duty to fly it, and I did.

Chuck Yeager

FlyDutyDidPicked

When you back off, it's easier to do mistakes. For me it's better to ski fast.

Bode Miller

MistakesMeBetterYouBackFast

Like all Israelis, I yearn for peace. I see the utmost importance in taking all possible steps that will lead to a solution of the conflict with the Palestinians.

Ariel Sharon

PeaceConflictSolutionPossibleSee

Democrats like to picture us as pushing grandmother over the cliff or throwing someone under the bus. In either one of those scenarios, at least the senior has a chance to survive.

Phil Gingrey

SurviveChancePictureSomeoneOver

My father was in the Army and we moved around a lot, and one of my favorite places was the library.

Suzan-Lori Parks

FatherLibraryArmyPlacesFavorite

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