Rw Quotes

#1. So you, too, like fruitcake? (RW on meeting Lenin in Zurich during World War I.)

Robert Walser

#2. I think action should be revealed through character, so if you have a plot problem, it's probably a character problem.

Zoe Kazan

#3. There is a big difference between knowing and understanding. If I had a choice of being remembered as a knowledgeable or an understanding man,give me understanding... hands down. RW

Rob Wood

#4. The one prediction that never comes true is, 'You'll thank me for telling you this.

Judith Martin

#5. In dealing with Syria's dictator ... only force counts. No cease-fire was attainable in Lebanon until the 16-inch guns of the battleship New Jersey started shelling Syria's proxies; suddenly, sweet reason prevailed in Damascus.

William Safire

#6. Always give your best and try to figure out how to do an even better job.

Benjamin Carson

#7. Adversity and hardship are the building stones of character. How can you appreciate good times and savor happiness if you have never dealt with ill fortune, discomfort and sorrow. It's like a child learning the difference between hot and cold. RW

Rob Wood

#8. In this earth,
in this immaculate field,
we shall not plant any seeds
except for compassion,
except for love.

Rumi

#9. The day-to-day life we lead has nothing to do with enlightenment. It is just around the corner, and we don't see it.

Frederick Lenz

#10. A guy goes nuts if he ain't got nobody.

John Steinbeck

#11. In 1848, Thoreau went to jail for refusing, as a protest against the Mexican war, to pay his poll tax. When RW Emerson came to bail him out, Emerson said, 'Henry, what are you doing in there?' Thoreau quietly replied, 'Ralph, what are you doing out there?'

Henry David Thoreau

#12. Annabeth smiled. "I don't know the ocean very well, but my boyfriend does. I think it's time you met Percy.

Rick Riordan

#13. Of course she'd understood for years now; she'd worked out long ago that families, unless they inhabit American TV shows, do not communicate when they speak.

Araminta Hall

#14. If you look at Shakespeare's history plays, what the setting of monarchy allows is this extraordinary intensification of emotions and predicament.

Tom Hooper

#15. He had a booming laugh that bubbled up from the bowels of the earth and shook him from head to toe.

Isabel Allende

#16. Virtually every discipline and endeavor is presently under a naturalistic pall.

William A. Dembski

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Jay LaCroix