Journal Quotes - Page 10

• We are not apt to think of the importance of events as they transpire with us, but we feel the importance of them afterwards.

  Wilford Woodruff

  Thinking, Events, Importance

  Rudger Clawson, Wilford Woodruff (1993). “Waiting for World's End: The Diaries of Wilford Woodruff”

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• Every great writer is a writer of history, let him treat on almost what subject he may.

  Walter Savage Landor

  History, May, Treats

  "Works: Indexes. Table of first lines. Imaginary conversations".

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• If there was no other motive in view [except] to have the privilege of reading over our journals and for our children to read, it would pay for the time spent in writing it.

  Wilford Woodruff

  Children, Reading, Writing

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• It seems to me that the problem with diaries, and the reason that most of them are so boring, is that every day we vacillate between examining our hangnails and speculating on cosmic order.

  Ann Beattie

  Order, Diaries, Problem

  Ann Beattie (2011). “Picturing Will”, p.237, Vintage

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• Should we not have respect enough to God to make a record of those blessings which He pours out upon us and our official acts which we do in His name upon the face of the earth? I think we should.

  Wilford Woodruff

  Blessing, Thinking, Names

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• There are remains of great and good men, which, like this mantle, ought to be gathered up and preserved by the survivors, their sayings, their writings, their examples, that, as their works follow them in the reward of them, they may stay behind in the benefit of them.

  Matthew Henry

  Men, Good Man, Survivor

  "An Exposition of the Old and New Testaments".

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• Biography, especially of the great and good, who have risen by their own exertions to eminence and usefulness, is an inspiring and ennobling study. Its direct tendency is to reproduce the excellence it records.

  Horace Mann

  Excellence, Records, Biographies

  Horace Mann (1867). “Thoughts”, p.105

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• Your own private journal should record the way you face up to challenges that beset you. Do not suppose life changes so much that your experiences will not be interesting to your posterity. Experiences of work, relations with people, and an awareness of the rightness and wrongness of actions will always be relevant.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Life Changing, People, Interesting

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• I am a Christian resident of New York City. I simply read things the other Manhattanites read (NY Times, New Yorker magazine, Wall Street Journal, and many of the books they read) plus all my Christian reading. I don't do anything special to understand skeptics. I also talk to a lot of skeptics and read things they point to.

  Timothy Keller

  Christian, New York, Wall

  Source: www.monergism.com

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• What Grandfather Burton did for me was to write a sacred family record, the small plates of Burton, or, if you will, an inspirational family record. Much of what we now regard as scripture was not anything more or less than men writing of their own spiritual experiences for the benefit of their posterity. These scriptures are family records. Therefore, as a people we ought to write of our own lives and our own experiences to form a sacred record for our descendants. We must provide for them the same uplifting, faith-promoting strength that the ancient scriptures now give us.

  Theodore M. Burton

  Uplifting, Spiritual, Writing

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• But, as all scientists know, there is a time lag of 12 to 18 months between the time a manuscript is submitted and the time it is published in a scientific journal.

  Paul Harvey

  Dark, Age, Lag

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• ...An editorial of the Journal AMA, Jan 8, 1949, discussed the Gerson Therapy under the heading 'Frauds and Fables'. At that time, Dr. Gerson's lawyer wrote a letter to the JAMA, threatening a suit for libel...The editorial was withdrawn...(leaving) columns which were blank.

  Charlotte Gerson

  Dark, Leaving, Age

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• As was noted in the Wall Street Journal, last March 21st, FDA approval of drug labelling, '...requires seven to ten years, and costs each applicant an average of $70 million.'

  Orrin Hatch

  Wall, Dark, Fda

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• Science today is locked into paradigms. Every avenue is blocked by beliefs that are wrong, and if you try to get anything published by a journal today, you will run against a paradigm and the editors will turn it down

  Fred Hoyle

  Running, Editors, Trying

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• A journal is a great way to keep track of what happens daily in your walk with God and to record your prayers and thoughts.

  David Jeremiah

  God, Christian, Religious

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• I'd been reading Daniel Defoe's Journal of the Plague Year when the [1992 Los Angeles] riots broke out and I began to see them both - L.A. and the London plague - as the same event. A time of crisis. A time when rich and poor get thrown together - and, suddenly one sees alternatives. I began to think about what happens when the containment of a presumed danger through the regimentation of space breaks down, such as when South-Central L.A. began to invade Beverly Hills.

  Naomi Wallace

  Reading, Thinking, Space

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• To have some account of my thoughts, manners, acquaintance and actions, when the hour arrives in which time is more nimble than memory, is the reason which induces me to keep a journal: a journal in which I must confess my every thought, must open my whole heart!

  Fanny Burney

  Memories, Heart, Nimble

  Frances Burney, Fanny Burney (2015). “Complete Works of Frances Burney (Delphi Classics)”, p.3739, Delphi Classics

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• Just as the pioneer travelers of the Conestoga wagon days kept personal journals, I, as a pioneer space traveler, would do the same.

  Christa McAuliffe

  Space, Pioneers, Wagons

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• My best writing has always been in journals.

  Thomas Merton

  Writing

  Thomas Merton, Lawrence Cunningham (1996). “A search for solitude: pursuing the monk's true life”, Harper San Francisco

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• We can look high or we can look low in books or in journals, but the result is the same. The scientific literature has no answers to the question of the origin of the immune system.

  Michael Behe

  Book, Looks, Answers

  "Judgment Day: Intelligent Design on Trial". www.pbs.org. November 13, 2007.

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• I remembered what Thoreau had written in his journal about thinking nothing of walking eight miles to greet a tree.

  Robert Macfarlane

  Thinking, Eight, Tree

  Robert Macfarlane (2012). “The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot”, p.210, Penguin

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• As I was getting interviewed by the Wall Street Journal, or some big pub guy, all I remember was that he went off to the bathroom for a second, and they brought out my omelet. The next thing I remember, I woke up, and I was on the side of my own omelet, and there was no one at Buck's. Everyone was gone. They just let me sleep.

  Max Levchin

  Wall, Sleep, Guy

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• Statistics are somewhat like old medical journals, or like revolvers in newly opened mining districts. Most men rarely use them, and find it troublesome to preserve them so as to have them easy of access; but when they do want them, they want them badly.

  John Shaw Billings

  Science, Men, Use

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• Most of the classical citations you shall hear or read in the current journals or speeches were not drawn from the originals, but from previous quotations in English books.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, Speech, Currents

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims”, p.102, Harvard University Press

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• I... recommend to every one of my Readers, the keeping a Journal of their Lives for one Week, and setting down punctually their whole Series of Employments during that Space of Time. This kind of Self-Examination would give them a true State of themselves, and incline them to consider seriously what they are about. One Day would rectifie the Omissions of another, and make a Man weigh all those indifferent Actions, which, though they are easily forgotten, must certainly be accounted for.

  Joseph Addison

  Men, Space, Omission

  Joseph Addison (1804). “The works of ... Joseph Addison, collected by mr. Tickell”, p.271

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