Ryan Winfield Quotes

#1. The essential code must include . . . how to crawl from the wreckage when this life falters, how to plunge to the cellar of sorrow and grope for the ladder that might bring you back into some kind of light, no matter how dim or strange.

Jane Kirkpatrick

#2. I don't know if you're being smart or not, but I know that being smart doesn't always lead to being happy. And I'd rather be happy than anything else

Ryan Winfield

#3. Hey, Jimmy."
"Yeah."
"You ever think about how long we're going to live?"
"No," he says. "Not really."
"Well, why not?"
"I dunno. Guess I'm too busy livin' it to think about it.

Ryan Winfield

#4. You are not defined by whoever happened to give you your DNA, Son. You're defined by your choices. And the choices you make are yours. All yours.

Ryan Winfield

#5. In 1976 I wrote a lot about women trying to claim the right to work.

Cathy Guisewite

#6. Perhaps not all spirits are meant for this world, but they pass through anyway and change for the better those which are.

Ryan Winfield

#7. I remember in treatment, Mr. Shaw told me that the alcohol and drugs never were my problem. He said the alcohol and drugs were my solution and that was my problem. And he was right.

Ryan Winfield

#8. I actually got to perform for Queen Elizabeth, and I got to meet her after the show. She said she thought my performance was beautiful and I got to shake her hand and it was just an incredible moment.

Jake Shimabukuro

#9. Death is just the moment that your hourglass runs out of sand. That's it. It happens to everyone eventually. All any of us gets to decide is where the sand falls.

Ryan Winfield

#10. Love is life and life is good

Ryan Winfield

#11. If you kill the man I love, you better make your peace with God, because I'm gonna meet your soul in hell." His voice boomed. God

A.E. Via

#12. I forgive him and like water draining from the sand after a wave, the power he held over me disappears. A slow smile rises on my face.

Ryan Winfield

#13. The U.S. State Department has a consistent record of error in the assessment of Asian situations and judging Red Chinese intentions.

Ferdinand Marcos

#14. I remember reading somewhere that you have to learn to love yourself before you can love someone else. But I don't think it's true. I think you have to learn to forget yourself before you can love someone else. At least I seem to forget about myself when I'm with you.

Ryan Winfield

#15. What is it that makes every man stare into a fire, I wonder. Does each see the same thing?

Ryan Winfield

#16. You know what 'fine' stands for, don't you?" When Jane didn't respond, Grace answered for her. "It stands for Fucked up, Insecure, Neurotic, and Emotional.

Ryan Winfield

#17. Everybody has an angel hiding inside. When you die, your angel comes out. You can die, but not your angel. Your angel never dies.

Jerry Spinelli

#18. Mistakes can be very beautiful. Mistakes lead to surprises. Even joy. And joy makes life worth living.

Ryan Winfield

#19. I decided that expressionism was a cheap way of getting a reaction - show anybody ripped apart, and you get sympathy. I was deliberately trying to show the human body as whole and relatively healthy.

Philip Pearlstein

#20. I don't see books. I see doors into other worlds. Windows into minds. The life of man spinning beyond time.

Ryan Winfield

#21. There can be no true disarmament without peace, and there can be no real peace without very material disarmament.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

#22. But I don't panic. I don't bolt like a frightened gazelle. I am more than the sum of my fear. It isn't fear that will defeat them. Not fear or faith or hope or even love, but rage.

Rick Yancey

#23. You know why God's so hard to find, Trevor? No, Mr. Shaw, I say, why is God so hard to find? God's so hard to find because he ain't lost!

Ryan Winfield

#24. Caterpillar dun' become butterfly-caterpillar die so butterfly can be. A new thing. We all must let ourselves die to be what we will be. But we cling to what we know.

Ryan Winfield

#25. I'm not going to let you walk out on me again."
"I'm not walking out on you Tucker. I'm walking out on us.

R.S. Burnett

#26. We should trust people to be exactly what they have proven themselves to be, no more and no less.

Ryan Winfield

#27. Don't you let fear have a place in your life, J. Not even a tiny place. Get rid of it from every hidden corner. Chase it away with the truth, and do what you want to do while you can.

Ryan Winfield

#28. I guess I'm the only guy old enough to figure him (Nolan Ryan, 1-Hitter Game in 1991) out.

Dave Winfield

#29. The structure of your organism, of your senses and nerves, endows the world with all its sensible and measurable properties - for rocks cannot seem to be hard except in relation to soft skin.

Alan W. Watts