A liberal knows that the only certainty in this life is change but believes that the change can be directed toward a constructive end.


Henry A. Wallace

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WALLACE STEVENS
Civilization must be destroyed. The hairy saints of the North have earned this crumb by their compla...
WALLACE STEVENS
The imagination is man's power over nature.
WALLACE STEVENS
Hope, the patent medicine for disease, disaster, sin.
WALLACE RICE
If some really acute observer made as much of egotism as Freud has made of sex, people would forget ...
WALLACE STEVENS
One is never more on trial than in the moment of excessive good fortune.
LEW WALLACE
The day of the sun is like the day of a king. It is a promenade in the morning, a sitting on the thr...
WALLACE STEVENS
Among twenty snowy mountains,
The only moving thing
Was the eye of the blackbird.
WALLACE STEVENS
How full of trifles everything is! It is only one's thoughts that fill a room with something more th...
WALLACE STEVENS
Union of the weakest develops strength not wisdom. Can all men, together, avenge one of the leaves t...
WALLACE STEVENS
I thought how utterly we have forsaken the Earth, in the sense of excluding it from our thoughts. Th...
WALLACE STEVENS
All the great things have been denied and we live in an intricacy of new and local mythologies, poli...
WALLACE STEVENS
The genuine artist is never true to life. He sees what is real, but not as we are normally aware of ...
WALLACE STEVENS
What our eyes behold may well be the text of life but one's meditations on the text and the disclosu...
WALLACE STEVENS
Accuracy of observation is the equivalent of accuracy of thinking.
WALLACE STEVENS
To be one's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of ...
IRVING WALLACE
If sex were all, then every trembling hand
Could make us squeak, like dolls, the wished-for words...
WALLACE STEVENS
I know what I should love to do--to build a study; to write, and to think of nothing else. I want to...
LEW WALLACE
Any tax over 12-14% -- regardless of the base -- will corrupt enough taxpayers to render the system ...
STEVE WALLACE
Style is not something applied. It is something that permeates. It is of the nature of that in which...
WALLACE STEVENS
[I]t is dangerous for a bride to be apologetic about her husband.
WALLACE STEGNER
The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
WALLACE STEVENS
Everybody wants to do 'The View.' It's this iconic show. When I worked at the White Hous...
NICOLLE WALLACE
To Edward, I cannot be a traitor, for I owe him no allegiance; he is not my sovereign; he never rece...
WILLIAM WALLACE
When I went to Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, what I really wanted to be was a radio announcer.
MIKE WALLACE
It would be absurd for me to diagnose Sarah Palin with a sprained ankle, let alone any sort of menta...
NICOLLE WALLACE
To be one's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice...
IRVING WALLACE
I used to have acne when I was a kid growing up. You can imagine how serious that was in making you ...
MIKE WALLACE
Accuracy of observation is the equivalent of accuracy of thinking.
WALLACE STEVENS
A life in politics is for people who know themselves and know where their own line is between loyalt...
NICOLLE WALLACE
I didn't have a special secret about Sarah Palin. I just had a feeling and some concerns. Her bl...
NICOLLE WALLACE
We must not be misled by left-wing incompetent news media that, day after day, feed us a diet of fan...
GEORGE WALLACE
There are few things that weigh on a person’s ability to grow and thrive more than insecurity. One...
CARLOS WALLACE
People spend money they don’t have on clothes and accessories they don’t need to fill a void. No...
CARLOS WALLACE
Insecurity is a powerful enemy. It forces people to use make-up, plastic surgery, collagen injection...
CARLOS WALLACE
Happiness will never flourish in a life bereft of optimism.
CARLOS WALLACE
I grew up. I began to think the United States had some problems that really required the help of art...
WALLACE SHAWN