Allen Wheelis Quotes

#1. *NB. Carlos III of Spain, Carlo I of Parma, Carlo VIII of Naples and Carlo V of Sicily were the same man.

Norman Davies

#2. I told you I'm not going to criticize my successor. I'll just tell you that there are people at Gitmo that will kill American people at a drop of a hat and I don't believe that persuasion isn't going to work. Therapy isn't going to cause terrorists to change their mind.

George W. Bush

#3. As no designation of good and evil can be absolute, neither can it be fixed; no law which is just now will be forever just, and no political institution designed to secure the good can remain the best means to that good.

Allen Wheelis

#4. They struggled forever in the roads cold coagulate.

Cormac McCarthy

#5. Was it possible to fall so far from greatness? Was this, then, his destiny?

Stephanie Kuehn

#6. To know the good is a dangerous thing; to know it for sure is usually fatal for somebody.

Allen Wheelis

#7. Desire is endless and unappeasable, is most intense where most forbidden, and is never far from despair.

Allen Wheelis

#8. I think the eyes are very revealing and can expose a lot about a persons mood or character.

Jonathan Shapiro

#9. The sequence is suffering, insight, will, action, change.

Allen Wheelis

#10. Certainty is not to be had. But as we learn this we become not more moral but more resigned. We become nihilists.

Allen Wheelis

#11. One can often recognize herd animals by their tendency to carry bibles.

Allen Wheelis

#12. This I ask, is it not madness to kill thyself in order to escape death?
[Lat., Hic rogo non furor est ne moriare mori?]

Martial

#13. Hope is not mere wishful thinking. It is the precursor of a new dawn that slowly, steadily and unerringly comes to the fore and eventually grows into reality's existence.

Sri Chinmoy

#14. David Moyes is someone I'm forever indebted to.

Tim Howard

#15. That's the way they are. You must not hold it against them. Children should be very understanding of grown-ups.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

#16. I don't believe there is any character that one can play for that long and not bring a piece of you to it.

Sharon Gless

#17. Freedom is the awareness of alternatives and of the ability to choose. It is contingent upon consciousness, and so may be gained or lost, extended or diminished.

Allen Wheelis

#18. Abstract qualities begin With capitals alway: The True, the Good, the Beautiful- Those are the things that pay!

Lewis Carroll

#19. The spirit of science is not to prejudge, but to give any honest query a fair shake.

Allen Wheelis

#20. This is a story about a family and, as there is a ghost involved, you might cal it a ghost story. But every family is a ghost story. The dead sit at out tables long after they have gone.

Mitch Albom