Top 14 Peter Viereck Quotes
#1. The promising young poets, the hopefuls? I'd name Richard Wilbur, Peter Viereck, Karl Shapiro, Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Lowell, John Ciardi...Leonard Bacon...but it is still too early to assertions. They're all 'in the field.' It remains to be seen how many will cross the finish line.
Robert Frost
#2. Whoopie doo guys, yes, I've dated girls and I've dated boys - get over it.
Jessie J.
#3. One of the main secrets of success is the ability to foresee the situation a few steps forward.
Sahara Sanders
#6. Democracy, though slowly attained and never by revolutionary jumps, is the best government on earth when it tries to make all its citizens aristocrats. But not when it guillontines whoever is individual, superior, or just different.
Peter Viereck
#8. Arrogance, disrespect and demand have higher price.
Kindness, respect and tact give better prize.
Angelica Hopes
#9. What keeps earth air breathable? Not oxygen alone. The earth is a freer place to breathe in, every time you love without calculating a return
every time you make your drudgeries and routines still more inefficient by stopping to experience the shock of beauty wherever it unpredictably flickers.
Peter Viereck
#10. If civilization is to survive, it must live on the interest, not the capital, of nature.
Ronald Wright
#11. 1977 - Star Wars is released on 5/25/77. Highest grossing movie in history. First wave of brainwashing in prep for invaders arrival?
Ernest Cline
#13. I can think of nothing more gallant, even though again and again we fail, than attempting to get at the facts; attempting to tell things as they really are. For at least reality, though never fully attained, can be defined. Reality is that which, when you don't believe in it, doesn't go away.
Peter Viereck
#14. I spent part of my college years in a Marxist commune. I was not a Marxist. I wasn't even pretending to be one. I was a Marxist-in-law.
Jane Smiley
