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Robert W. Merriweather
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MORGAN PRESSEL When a man takes one step toward God, God takes more steps toward that man than there are sands in t...
THE WORK OF THE CHARIOT It's silly to work hard the whole week and then spoil it by not preparing properly before the ga...
ARSENE WENGER I am one of maybe three people in the world who knows anything about Robert W. Chambers.
S. T. JOSHI Roses are red, Violettes are bllue,
Valentines day is consumerous crap,now don't you have ironi...
MOCK OF THE WEEK THE SHOW I'm just going to put my nose in there and grind it out as hard as I can this week and see whoever i...
MIKE WEIR The lie made to the person in the mirror does the most damage to its reflection.
ROBERT W. MERRIWEATHER If your tattoos could remember and speak why they were conceived what would they say? Moreover, woul...
ROBERT W. MERRIWEATHER You want an elixir for life's drama? Laugh!
ROBERT W. MERRIWEATHER I give from my own volition and not for the recognition…
ROBERT W. MERRIWEATHER When the heart is torn time is the only stitch to mend the wound.
ROBERT W. MERRIWEATHER Acceptance supersedes expectance!
ROBERT W. MERRIWEATHER The body germinates, the mind sprouts, the soul nourishes and the spirit blooms.
ROBERT W. MERRIWEATHER If time heals all hurt; will I live long enough?
ROBERT W. MERRIWEATHER If you are in the driver's seat your love is the least.
ROBERT W. MERRIWEATHER If you have a bad day, guess what you chose it!
ROBERT W. MERRIWEATHER Time the most precious gift one can give. Each moment is unique because it will never happen again�...
ROBERT W. MERRIWEATHER Life shows you a lot. If you open your eyes and take a look!
ROBERT W. MERRIWEATHER "Life" the most fun and scariest ride on the planet!
ROBERT W. MERRIWEATHER Is the life you are living a 'reel' or is it 'real'?
ROBERT W. MERRIWEATHER What do you prefer: brutal honesty or humane lies?
ROBERT W. MERRIWEATHER When you can’t pour water out of your boot with a hole in it, you need to step back and see the an...
ROBERT W. MERRIWEATHER What you put your energy into is what you produce.
ROBERT W. MERRIWEATHER I love me some me; without it I cannot love you fully.
ROBERT W. MERRIWEATHER Vacation is the time and vehicle to release, refresh and rejuvenate your mind from the work grind. F...
ROBERT W. MERRIWEATHER When you pass hateful words from your mouth to others it is like passing gas - it stinks and no one ...
ROBERT W. MERRIWEATHER The mind is the pit for which all dump trucks go to release their trash.
ROSEMARIE YUSEN Albert Einstein I never came upon any of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking. W....
ROBERT FROST All great work is preparing yourself for the accident to happen.
SIDNEY LUMET It's going to take a big defensive effort. We're going to spend a week preparing, and if we work all...
JEN BLUES Take time for the clearance of the mind, preparing for adherence to perseverance for the journey of ...
CURTIS TYRONE JONES The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.
SOURCE UNKNOWN I figured there'd be a lot of phone calls, a lot of interest and stories. But I'm preparing for just...
JAY FIEDLER At times it's good to take the pressure off of preparing for a race at the end of the week. With a w...
KAROL HUNT All the research centers in life today combined together can not be compared to one active,sound & m...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The mind is the biggest research center in the universe.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Give a poor mind $1m & he will still end in poverty because,generating wealth has never been his ide...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Life's irony;some people believe that somethings are mind corrupting,not knowing that they've actual...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Let's go take a walk down to the blue hole. You need to look at some water.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER A man who cannot decide whether or not to pull the trigger, wages war against only himself.
DAVE FRANCIS I do not mind losing in the regular season. We're preparing all year for the district tournament, th...
HANK BONTRAGER It was obviously a good week for us. Regardless of how the grind goes in January, these kids are muc...
GARY ANDERS Marcus has really matured as a player, ... The way he went about preparing himself for that game las...
AL GROH Eat for lunch, but let something for dinner.
ERBLIN VUKAJ Jesus Christ wants to show His love for this world through us, Christians.
SUNDAY ADELAJA If you are among the good fellows chances are that you will be among the blemishes for the wicked ar...
APURVA GAGLANI It's hard when you have things but lose them, it's even harder when you feel that you're being left ...
GARY F EVANS... Starting today, must forget what gone yesterday,appreciate what remains today & look forward what ca...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA call it chicken salad
SARAH DESSEN Society. The same society, I might add, that dictates that little girls should always be sugar and s...
SARAH DESSEN Your mind is a Microcosm of strength and power. There’s all the magic you need in it. When all els...
CHINONYE J. CHIDOLUE Right now, I'm the guy preparing to play this week. I'll go out and prepare that way and get the tim...
CHARLIE BATCH I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES I want this plan to succeed. But it's very difficult for me to see how it would.
ROBERT WORK There is always a part of my mind that is preparing for the worst, and another part of my mind that ...
KAY REDFIELD JAMISON If our ancestors could see us today, surely they would think us gods.
DAN BROWN The mind has a thousand eyes. And the heart but one; Yet the life of a whole life dies When love is ...
FRANCIS WILLIAM BOURDILLON Guard your thoughts.
Your thoughts define the state of your wellness.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Retire into thyself. The rational principle which rules has this nature,
that it is content wit...
MARCUS AURELIUS This discourse, and the present frame of my mind, lead me rather to speak to those, who by feeling S...
GEORGE WHITEFIELD Modern society is large and complex, with institutions wielding great power over the lives of many. ...
DAVID MCRANEY The mind is the pit for which all dump trucks go to release their trash
ROSEMARIE YUSEN The only test of leadership is that somebody follows. Lance Secretan, Industry Week, 10/12/98 -Robe...
ROBERT K. GREENLEAF The bottom line is, what defines you isn't how many times you crash, but the number of times you get...
SARAH DESSEN This is a 911? You know you only text that when someone is dead or dying. You scared the crap out of...
SARAH DESSEN It’s the things you fight for and struggle with before earning that have the greatest worth.
SARAH DESSEN U-32 is a good, strong team and are preparing to enter the Division II playoffs, and we are preparin...
BRIAN MUSTY This Bible is for the government of the people, by the people and for the people.
JOHN WYCLIFFE Together my wife and I are building the kingdom of God, exercising dominion, beating back the weeds ...
R.C. SPROUL JR. Everything about Andrew was hot, from the hands holding him down to the mouth steadily taking Neil a...
NORA SAKAVIC The ego mind both professes its desire for love and does everything possible to repel it, or if it g...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON There ought to be questions about whether state standards are preparing students for the challenges ...
DARIA HALL As to the efficacy of the policy recommended by Rostow, it speaks for itself: no country, once under...
ANDRé GUNDER FRANK I love you. Good-by--because I love you.
KATE CHOPIN [The deadline] came when I was preparing for the Scouting Combine. But it's no big deal; I can take ...
DEREK ABNEY With five games remaining, we just need to tighten up a few things. The schedule has been a grind. S...
JOE KUHN From the Kindle Book Reflections in the Mirror of Life:
“In a slum somewhere in India
As...
THE PROPHET OF LIFE [Last week, George W. Bush told] New York Times ... I'm smart enough to know what I don't know.
MAUREEN DOWD We are not preparing for the world we live in - we are preparing for the world we find ourselves in.
MICHAEL MABEE The people's government, made for the people, made by the people, and answerable to the people.
DANIEL WEBSTER Why live for the day,
when you know the next one
is going to be exactly the same.
HUGO SVENSSON In the dark beside me, she smelled of sweat and sunshine and vanilla,
JOHN GREEN Sunday seems more interesting when you work for the whole week
SUPERNA BATHEJA The unconscious has become the subconscious mind conscious, and in love with itself.
Take a loo...
NIKKI SHIVA It’s a dangerous world and I have survived for 72 years by listening to what people are not saying...
BOBBY W. MILLER When that dog jumps, the crowd just goes 'a-w-w-w!'
DAN JACOBS Should you avoid the one who speaks his mind? Or the one whose intentions are undefined?
JOAN COLLEEN R. KATIPUNAN The tiny tealeaf of consciousness spreads its bittersweet smoke through the sea of the primitive min...
THORNTON WILDER Le coeur a ses raisons que le raison ne connaît point.
BLAISE PASCAL They may have been mentally tired from exams (Furman's winter term ended last week) or from the grin...
LARRY DAVIS Today was just one of those days where we didn't play very well. All we can do now is start preparin...
GREG ALLEN My career has been successful, but it's been a grind of hard work.
EMMANUELLE CHRIQUI The U.S. dollar might grind a little higher as the United States comes back from a long weekend. But...
GREG GIBBS Try, try, try again
ROBERT THE BRUCE Reach for the stars.
CHRISTA MCAULIFFE If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?
T.S. ELIOT (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes...
JEAN SASSON Just because something's damaged doesn't mean it shouldn't be treated with respect.'
'Ad,...
SARAH DESSEN You're supposed to fail sometimes. It's a required part of the human existence
-Eli
SARAH DESSEN It was terrible and awful when someone left you. You could move on, do the best you could, but like ...
SARAH DESSEN
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ROBERT W. MERRIWEATHER When the heart is torn time is the only stitch to mend the wound.
ROBERT W. MERRIWEATHER Acceptance supersedes expectance!
ROBERT W. MERRIWEATHER The body germinates, the mind sprouts, the soul nourishes and the spirit blooms.
ROBERT W. MERRIWEATHER If time heals all hurt; will I live long enough?
ROBERT W. MERRIWEATHER If you are in the driver's seat your love is the least.
ROBERT W. MERRIWEATHER If you have a bad day, guess what you chose it!
ROBERT W. MERRIWEATHER Time the most precious gift one can give. Each moment is unique because it will never happen again�...
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ROBERT W. MERRIWEATHER I love me some me; without it I cannot love you fully.
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ROBERT W. MERRIWEATHER Advertising is the foot on the accelerator, the hand on the throttle, the spur on the flank that kee...
ROBERT W. SARNOFF This is the Law of the Yukon, that only the strong shall thrive; That surely the weak shall perish, ...
ROBERT W. SERVICE It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out; it's the grain of sand in your shoe.
ROBERT W. SERVICE The following obituary appeared in the Pittsburgh Sun-Telegraph of Sept. 16, 1958:
A GREA...
ROBERT W. SERVICE A promise made is a debt unpaid
ROBERT W. SERVICE The only society I like is rough and tough, and the tougher the better. There's where you get do...
ROBERT W. SERVICE Finance is the art of passing currency from hand to hand until it finally disappears.
ROBERT W. SARNOFF Finance is the art of passing currency from hand to hand until it finally disappears.
ROBERT W. SARNOFF Finance is the art of passing money from hand to hand until it finally disappears.
ROBERT W. SARNOFF Avoid extremes: be moderate In saving and in spending; An equable and easy gait Will win an easy end...
ROBERT W. SERVICE I have an intense dislike for artificial society. In France, one could lead a free life - to do what...
ROBERT W. SERVICE The public may be willing to forgive us for mistakes in judgment but it will not forgive us for mist...
ROBERT W. HAACK It's the steady, quiet, plodding ones who win in the lifelong race.
ROBERT W. SERVICE A successful voyage requires not only a sound vessel but also a skilled crew
ROBERT W. RICE Feast of Harriet Monsell of Clewer, Religious, 1883 It was not the pleasant things in the world th...
ROBERT W. DALE There's a race of men that don't fit in,
A race that can't sit still;
So they break the h...
ROBERT W. SERVICE Choice, not chance, determines human destiny.
ROBERT W. ELLIS The Wanderlust has got me... by the belly-aching fire
ROBERT W. SERVICE I have some friends, some honest friends, and honest friends are few; My pipe of briar, my open fire...
ROBERT W. SERVICE Memang, seperti di Indonesia, daripada dilemparkan ke dalam keranjang sampah sejarah, ketidaksetaraa...
ROBERT W. HEFNER The Quitter
When you're lost in the Wild, and you're scared as a child,
And ...
ROBERT W. SERVICE Be master of your petty annoyances and conserve your energies for the big, worthwhile things. It isn...
ROBERT W. SERVICE It is well known how the book spread like an infectious disease, from city to city, from continent t...
ROBERT W. CHAMBERS In a democracy there is a centralization of governmental power in a simple majority.
ROBERT W. WELCH, JR. We have seen a central government promote the power of labor-union bosses, and in turn be supported ...
ROBERT W. WELCH, JR. We have seen a central government taking more and more control over public education, over communica...
ROBERT W. WELCH, JR. The American Republic was bound - is still bound - to follow in the centuries to come the same cours...
ROBERT W. WELCH, JR. In the Constitution of the American Republic there was a deliberate and very extensive and emphatic ...
ROBERT W. WELCH, JR. In our Constitution governmental power is divided among three separate branches of the national gove...
ROBERT W. WELCH, JR. There is no question but that the laws and principles which Solon laid down both foreshadowed and pr...
ROBERT W. WELCH, JR. It was under Wilson, of course, that the first huge parts of the Marxist program, such as the progre...
ROBERT W. WELCH, JR. For in the first place the American people could not have been swept too fast and too far in this mo...
ROBERT W. WELCH, JR. In summary, the Romans were opposed to tyranny in any form; and the feature of government to which t...
ROBERT W. WELCH, JR. For, quite literally, the whole world today is looking for us to take the lead in carrying out those...
ROBERT W. WELCH, JR. And for well over a hundred years our politicians, statesmen, and people remembered that this was a ...
ROBERT W. WELCH, JR. He is a great simpleton who imagines that the chief power of wealth is to supply wants. In ninety-ni...
W. WIRT Poetry is the language of feeling.
W. WINTER What I focus on in life is what I get. And if I concentrate on how bad I am or how wrong I am or how...
W. MITCHELL Before my accidents, there were ten thousands things I could do. I could spend the rest of my life d...
W. MITCHELL Clemency is one of the brightest diamonds in the crown of majesty.
W. SECKER Usually the greatest boasters are the smallest workers. The deep rivers pay a larger tribute to the ...
W. SECKER Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.
W. FUSSELMAN Gentle words, quiet words, are after all the most powerful words. They are more convincing, more com...
W. GLADDEN For the wise have always known that no one can make much of his life until self-searching has become...
BILL W. There are more references in the Koran than
the Bible to Mary, the mother of Jesus.
-Julia W-.
JULIA W VMS is a text-only adventure game. If you win you can use Unix.
W. DAVIDSON You'll never find another like me because im the original.
RACHEL W You might as well be nice to everyone, because in the end if something happens to someone your mean/...
RACHEL W I remember on that occasion, Roz invited a group of friends to gather around a festive table for a m...
W. HULL Gentle words, quiet words, are after all the most powerful words. They are more convincing, more c...
W. GLADDEN Relationships are like glass. Sometimes its better to leave them broken instead of hurting yourself ...
ASHLEY W Marriage is a mutual admiration society where one person is always right, the other is the husband.
W. GRANT If we were to follow the format of Edith's memorial service, we would be here until next Wednesday,
W. HULL Bear in mind three essential qualities in all games of intellect:– Never to show selfishness or to...
W. PATTERSON Cheap things aren't good, and good things aren't cheap.
MARK W. Every morning began with Roz getting her mother up, dressed and in a wheelchair, then going off to t...
W. HULL When you come right down to it, the ground you stand on is the ground you stand
on.
W. LEITZEN We are hear to celebrate, and I mean celebrate, the unique and wonderful life of Rosamond McPherson ...
W. HULL Photography is a small voice, at best, but sometimes one photograph, or a group of them, can lure ou...
W. EUGENE SMITH It never occurred to me that we would have as grandiose a program as the Marshall Plan, but I felt t...
W. AVERELL HARRIMAN Never have I found the limits of the photographic potential. Every horizon, upon being reached, reve...
W. EUGENE SMITH Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Para...
W. H. AUDEN Always carry a flagon of whiskey in case of snakebite and furthermore always carry a small snake.
W. C. FIELDS Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.
W. C. FIELDS The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM It was the rainbow gave thee birth, and left thee all her lovely hues.
W. H. DAVIES If you can't describe what you are doing as a process, you don't know what you're doing.
W. EDWARDS DEMING Quality is pride of workmanship.
W. EDWARDS DEMING It is not enough to do your best; you must know what to do, and then do your best.
W. EDWARDS DEMING America must not ignore the threat gathering against us. Facing clear evidence of peril, we cannot w...
GEORGE W. BUSH When the congregation becomes the norm by which sermons are measured, a minister has put a mortgage ...
RALPH W. SOCKMAN When the dictators and the opportunists are gone, the cross will still stand before us and something...
RALPH W. SOCKMAN A service of worship is primarily a service to God. When we realize this and act upon it, we make it...
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RALPH W. SOCKMAN Whatever the right hand findeth to do, the left hand carries a watch on its wrist to show how long i...
RALPH W. SOCKMAN A man has no more character than he can command in a time of crisis.
RALPH W. SOCKMAN The roads of life are strewn with the wreckage of run-down and half-finished loves.
RALPH W. SOCKMAN Let us not bankrupt our todays by paying interest on the regrets of yesterday and by borrowing in ad...
RALPH W. SOCKMAN Love is the outreach of self toward completion.
RALPH W. SOCKMAN What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but ...
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM A dictatorship would be a heck of a lot easier, there's no question about it.
GEORGE W. BUSH Rational behavior requires theory. Reactive behavior requires only reflex action.
W. EDWARDS DEMING In Japan, a company worker's position is secure. He is retrained for another job if his present ...
W. EDWARDS DEMING You should not ask questions without knowledge.
W. EDWARDS DEMING Declining productivity and quality means your unit production costs stay high but you don't have...
W. EDWARDS DEMING The prevailing - and foolish - attitude is that a good manager can be a good manager anywhere, with ...
W. EDWARDS DEMING Whenever there is fear, you will get wrong figures.
W. EDWARDS DEMING When a system is stable, telling the worker about mistakes is only tampering.
W. EDWARDS DEMING The emphasis should be on why we do a job.
W. EDWARDS DEMING We are here to make another world.
W. EDWARDS DEMING People with targets and jobs dependent upon meeting them will probably meet the targets - even if th...
W. EDWARDS DEMING I like to keep a bottle of stimulant handy in case I see a snake, which I also keep handy.
W. C. FIELDS There are only two real ways to get ahead today - sell liquor or drink it.
W. C. FIELDS Ah, the patter of little feet around the house. There's nothing like having a midget for a butle...
W. C. FIELDS If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no point in being a damn f...
W. C. FIELDS I was in love with a beautiful blonde once. She drove me to drink. That's the one thing I'm ...
W. C. FIELDS Never try to impress a woman, because if you do she'll expect you to keep up the standard for th...
W. C. FIELDS A woman drove me to drink and I didn't even have the decency to thank her.
W. C. FIELDS No doubt exists that all women are crazy; it's only a question of degree.
W. C. FIELDS The best cure for insomnia is to get a lot of sleep.
W. C. FIELDS It ain't what they call you, it's what you answer to.
W. C. FIELDS If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bull.
W. C. FIELDS Writing is the supreme solace.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM It's no good trying to keep up old friendships. It's painful for both sides. The fact is, on...
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM We learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM I'll give you my opinion of the human race in a nutshell... their heart's in the right place...
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM In the country the darkness of night is friendly and familiar, but in a city, with its blaze of ligh...
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM It's very hard to be a gentleman and a writer.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the ba...
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get...
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM We are asleep with compasses in our hands.
W. S. MERWIN Now all my teachers are dead except silence.
W. S. MERWIN Poetry is like making a joke. If you get one word wrong at the end of a joke, you've lost the wh...
W. S. MERWIN In 1975 I decided that there was no future in flying (airline jobs were impossible to get, and who w...
W. RICHARD STEVENS After graduating in 1973 I went into the programming field.
W. RICHARD STEVENS I drove across country in my yellow 1970 VW bug (which I drove until 1986) to Los Angeles, having ha...
W. RICHARD STEVENS Most writers are unhappy with film adaptations of their work, and rightly so. 'Field of Dreams,&...
W. P. KINSELLA I can still put down some pretty nasty stuff on paper, which is what I enjoy doing.
W. P. KINSELLA Most people write a lot of autobiography, but when I came to write autobiography I discovered that n...
W. P. KINSELLA Read, read, read, read and then read some more.
W. P. KINSELLA I knew how to read box scores and who the baseball heroes were before I had ever seen or even heard ...
W. P. KINSELLA Baseball is meant to be a contemplative game. They play music to draw young people to the game. If y...
W. P. KINSELLA If I have a choice between looking something up and making it up, I'll make it up every time.
W. P. KINSELLA I have no interest in non-fiction. I don't read it and don't watch it and don't write it...
W. P. KINSELLA I don't believe in the afterlife.
W. P. KINSELLA The crack of the bat, the sound of baseballs thumping into gloves, the infield chatter are like bird...
W. P. KINSELLA Find something that thrills you, and when you finish reading it for enjoyment, read it again line by...
W. P. KINSELLA The Bureau doesn't have any secret files.
W. MARK FELT I haven't leaked anything to anybody. They are wrong!
W. MARK FELT I have to do this my way.
W. MARK FELT I'm the guy they used to call Deep Throat.
W. MARK FELT I never leaked information to Woodward and Bernstein or anyone else!
W. MARK FELT The more the soul knows, the more she loves, and loving much, she tastes much.
W. H. MURRAY All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred.
W. H. MURRAY Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
W. H. MURRAY It was a proof of Welsh good nature: so long as I had a friend that knew and could introduce me, the...
W. H. DAVIES I had now been in the United States of America something like five years, working here and there as ...
W. H. DAVIES Summer boarders often left clothes behind, and of what use were they to the landladies, for no rag-a...
W. H. DAVIES I had made up my mind to find a woman to share my life: one who would leave London altogether and go...
W. H. DAVIES I dislike society because conversation exhausts my brain more than silent thought - again, I cannot ...
W. H. DAVIES However careful a tramp may be to avoid places where there is abundant work, he cannot always succee...
W. H. DAVIES My impression of Americans from the beginning is of the best, and I have never since had cause to al...
W. H. DAVIES It has always been a wonder to me where my conversational power has gone: at the present time, I can...
W. H. DAVIES I like to see a good scientific bout by men who know the use of their hands but would rather walk tw...
W. H. DAVIES Mother's father and brothers all took great interest in pugilism, and they knew the game well fr...
W. H. DAVIES But cats to me are strange, so strange I cannot sleep if one is near.
W. H. DAVIES Teetotallers lack the sympathy and generosity of men that drink.
W. H. DAVIES How the snow falls in the north! Flake on flake falling incessantly, until the small dingles are alm...
W. H. DAVIES Being in this fine mood, I spoke to a little boy, whom I saw playing alone in the road, asking him w...
W. H. DAVIES What is this life if, full of care, we have no time to stand and stare?
W. H. DAVIES I like to give pennies to children, but unfortunately, a man cannot do these things if he lives in a...
W. H. DAVIES As long as I love Beauty I am young.
W. H. DAVIES May it not be that, just as we have to have faith in Him, God has to have faith in us and, consideri...
W. H. AUDEN All that we are not stares back at what we are.
W. H. AUDEN A poet can write about a man slaying a dragon, but not about a man pushing a button that releases a ...
W. H. AUDEN To save your world you asked this man to die; would this man, could he see you now, ask why?
W. H. AUDEN You owe it to all of us all get on with what you're good at.
W. H. AUDEN In relation to a writer, most readers believe in the Double Standard: they may be unfaithful to him ...
W. H. AUDEN 'Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature...
W. H. AUDEN Art is born of humiliation.
W. H. AUDEN Good can imagine Evil; but Evil cannot imagine Good.
W. H. AUDEN In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag.
W. H. AUDEN Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic.
W. H. AUDEN Comparing oneself with one's fellow writers is a bad idea. I would not review a fellow writer un...
W. G. SEBALD I always read the translator's draft all the way through - a very laborious business.
W. G. SEBALD Where I grew up, in a remote village at the back of a valley, the old still thought the dead needed ...
W. G. SEBALD Until I was 16 or 17, I had heard practically nothing about the history that preceded 1945. Only whe...
W. G. SEBALD I was brought up largely by my grandfather because my father only returned from a prisoner-of-war ca...
W. G. SEBALD A subject which at first glance seems quite removed from the undeclared concern of the book can enca...
W. G. SEBALD Occasionally I write a small piece or the odd lecture in English, and I teach in English, but my fic...
W. G. SEBALD I don't want to talk about my trials and tribulations. Once you reveal even part of what your re...
W. G. SEBALD To my mind, it seems clear that those who have no memory have the much greater chance to lead happy ...
W. G. SEBALD You could grow up in Germany in the postwar years without ever meeting a Jewish person. There were s...
W. G. SEBALD People's ability to forget what they do not want to know, to overlook what is before their eyes,...
W. G. SEBALD I've always felt that the traditional novel doesn't give you enough information about the na...
W. G. SEBALD The moral backbone of literature is about that whole question of memory. To my mind it seems clear t...
W. G. SEBALD It is a sore point, because you do have advantages if you have access to more than one language. You...
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