Top 100 Stafford Quotes
#1. He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
[On British Labour politician Stafford Cripps.]
Winston S. Churchill
#2. There's a long tradition - certainly with country, but in all kinds of genres of music - to have humorous lyrics. Certainly with Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention and, if you look at country, Roger Miller and Jim Stafford.
Rick Moranis
#3. It go at that, I should be obtaining the reader's interest under false pretences. He was really only a sort of detective, a species of sleuth. At Stafford's International Investigation Bureau, in the Strand, where he was employed, they did not require
P.G. Wodehouse
#4. He set fire to some potatoes, then cooked some undelivered post in the embers." - Dad
"Did he now? What a strange fellow. I would have done it the other way around." - Stafford
Jasper Fforde
#5. Were I to die tomorrow, my soul would remember you.
~Nicholas Stafford
Jude Deveraux
#6. I simply said he was a detective, and let it go at that, I should be obtaining the reader's interest under false pretences. He was really only a sort of detective, a species of sleuth. At Stafford's International Investigation Bureau, in the Strand,
P.G. Wodehouse
#7. When you watch Tiger Woods, you're in awe of what he can do with a seven-iron. Watching Matthew Stafford from up here, he's head and shoulders above most college quarterbacks.
Gary Danielson
#8. Let's get one thing straight: No one wants Stafford loan interest rates to increase.
John Kline
#9. Immortality awaits the legislator fortunate enough to have a significant law named after him. Think of Pell grants or Stafford loans for students, Sarbanes-Oxley to regulate Wall Street, or the Hyde Amendment on abortions.
Jim Cooper
#10. For even in the pit of darkness, the beacon of humanity can always shine through.
Stewart Stafford
#11. I really like 'Gladiator.' I like 'The Dark Knight.' I really liked, when I was a kid, 'U.S. Marshalls.' I like funny movies, too. 'Old School' and 'The Hangover.' 'The Hangover' was up there; I liked it.
Matthew Stafford
#12. Wisdom is having things right in your life
and knowing why.
William Stafford
#13. When autumn gusts blew in from the Rideau Lakes, parched brown leaves swirled and scattered around the sides of the neglected building, forming mounds like grave-markers, for ghosts of the past, who lingered on the dust-covered dance floor.
Arlene Stafford-Wilson
#14. He does what I have always needed to have done to me, and that is that he dominates me.
Jean Stafford
#15. Some people are blinded by their experience. Soldiers know how important war is. Owners of slaves learn every day how inferior subject peoples are.
William Stafford
#16. Gandhi has asked that the British Government should walk out of India and leave the Indian people to settle differences among themselves, even if it means chaos and confusion.
Stafford Cripps
#17. It would be a mistake to think that fundamentalists are to be found only among the religious.
Stafford Betty
#18. But codependency is inappropriate, over-the-top loyalty, caring and supportiveness.
David Stafford
#19. I'm Irish yet I don't drink as I refuse to be a stereotype and live down to the expectations of others.
Stewart Stafford
#20. Take it from this Lanark County kid - you won't find any better, more flavourful syrup, than from the Maple Syrup Capital of Ontario
Arlene Stafford-Wilson
#22. A writer is someone who has found a process that will bring about new things.
William Stafford
#25. Whatever fame came did so not because I sought it.
Jo Stafford
#26. Looking around, from near the top of Foley Mountain, it was easy to imagine why the early settlers decided to make their home in Westport.
Arlene Stafford-Wilson
#27. Every creative act, however small, enriches our species and the world around us. To find and nurture talent, is to be truly wealthy.
Stewart Stafford
#29. It is not yet too late for the Indian people to decide on rapid, ordered progress. I can assure them that the British people are as determined upon self-government for India as they are themselves.
Stafford Cripps
#30. Will you ever bring a better gift for the world
than the breathing respect that you carry
wherever you go right now?
William Stafford
#31. Resist trying to be what other people want you to be. Anyone in your life who tries to change you is really saying: as I can't control myself I will try and control you. By the same token, don't attempt to control other people's behaviour - it's not your place.
David Stafford
#32. If you don't know the kind of person I am
and I don't know the kind of person you are
a pattern that others made may prevail in the world
and following the wrong god home we may miss our star.
William Stafford
#33. I'm a Frisbeetarian. We worship frisbees. We believe when you die your soul goes up on the roof and you can't get it down.
Jim Stafford
#34. The plants and animals all around us were waking from a long sleep, and our yard was slowly transformed into a carpet of soft green, and the skies above our house were filled with choruses of birdsong once again.
Arlene Stafford-Wilson
#35. There is, then, a logical priority about the arrangements, and logic has nothing to do with time.
Anthony Stafford Beer
#36. Children are ingenuous. They are also blessed with uncanny ability to read a person's character instantly. Even though they are inexperienced and unsophisticated, they often know instinctively who can be trusted and who is the charlatan.
Wess Stafford
#37. [Since] a player controls every character, it is that player's intelligence that dictates the character's goals and actions, not an arbitrary number on a character sheet. Thus, in a sense, the player _is_ the character's "intelligence score"!
Greg Stafford
#39. Save the world by torturing one innocent child? Which innocent child?
William Stafford
#40. Others may be able to accept standards from another, but an artist is a person who decides.
William Stafford
#41. It is fundamental to socialism that we should liquidate the British Empire as soon as we can
Stafford Cripps
#42. Every possible effort should be made to stop recruiting for the Armed Forces. This may, and probably would, lead to some form of conscription being proposed or introduced. Thus would be provided a most favourable political platform upon which to fight the National Government.
Stafford Cripps
#43. Songs suffer at the mercy of the performer.
Jo Stafford
#44. A lazy, bored brain latches on to negativity and problems and exaggerates them until they become out of perspective and all-consuming.
Ed Stafford
#45. The possible is just the impossible that we've come to accept,
Stewart Stafford
#46. 'Be alive,' the land says, 'listen - this is your time, your world, your pleasure.'
William Stafford
#47. If we nurture the dreams of children, the world will be blessed. If we destroy them, the world is doomed!
Wess Stafford
#48. Being authentic is more respectable than being great.
K.P. Stafford
#49. A poem is a serious joke, a truth that has learned jujitsu.
William Stafford
#50. People wander about what you are pursuing. You have to explain about the thread.
William Stafford
#51. Everyone is born a poet - a person discovering the way words sound and work, caring and delighting in words. I just kept on doing what everyone starts out doing. The real question is: Why did other people stop?
William Stafford
#52. What you have to do as a writer is ... write day in and day out no matter what happens.
William Stafford
#53. For me, there is nothing worse than the knowledge that my life holds nothing for me but being a writer.
Jean Stafford
#54. Like the trees, we are visitors, guests of the earth.
Kim Stafford
#55. Readers should not be loaded with more information and guidance than a lively mind needs
puzzlement can be accepted, but insulting clarity is fatal to a poem.
William Stafford
#56. I would exchange all that I have written for the next thing.
William Stafford
#58. Violent statements and threats cannot provide a solution to the problem. They can only exacerbate feeling and make a clash of forces inevitable.
Stafford Cripps
#59. The system of transportation is not coherent; it is not treated as integral. Roads compete with with railroads and airlines in chaotic fashion, and at immense cost to the nation.
Anthony Stafford Beer
#60. I had four or five years in school training as a soprano. I fell into pop singing because of economics. I got out of high school and had to go work, and they weren't hiring opera singers.
Jo Stafford
#61. The earth says have a place, be what that place
requires; hear the sound the birds imply
and see as deep as ridges go behind
each other.
William Stafford
#62. In Detroit, the quarterbacks lift with all the linebackers and running backs and everybody else, so I'm doing that whole thing.
Matthew Stafford
#63. It is the concept of likelihood that a real understanding of probability resides, and we must learn how to measure it.
Anthony Stafford Beer
#64. I have become convinced that if God stands a child before you, for even just a minute, it is a divine appointment.
Wess Stafford
#66. If you don't make a choice, life makes it for you and then you're stuck with what it decides. Take control of your destiny so that doesn't happen
Stewart Stafford
#67. The more you let yourself be distracted from where you are going, the more you are the person that you are. It's not so much like getting lost as it is like getting found.
William Stafford
#68. The only way to ensure democracy functions correctly is to question its governance constantly. Fail to do so and you may awake to find yourself living in a police state.
Stewart Stafford
#69. It is terribly important to appreciate that some things remain obscure to the bitter end.
Anthony Stafford Beer
#70. Time Dreams. They are memories of the soul. They encompass all Time. They exist in the space of a dream.
Tom Stafford
#71. I Have a Witness"
Sometimes a center the soul can recognize
will speak from anywhere , inside a mountain, or from
a whirlwind ... The world can take, the soul
restores. A million wrong voices proclaim
One light lives forever.
William Stafford
#73. Many hard comments have been made on my efforts in India from the side of the Congress party, yet I feel content in the deep conviction that the offer I traveled 22,000 miles to discuss with Indian leaders was a real contribution to a solution of our differences.
Stafford Cripps
#74. Warm familiar scents drift softly from the oven,
And imprint forever upon our hearts
That this is home
and that we are loved.
Arlene Stafford-Wilson
#75. One changed child eventually changes a family. A changed family will influence change in its church. Enough changed churches will transform a community. Changed communities change regions. Changed regions will in time change an entire nation.
Wess Stafford
#76. This dream the world is having about itself
includes a trace on the plains of the Oregon trail,
a groove in the grass my father showed us all
one day while meadowlarks were trying to tell
something better about to happen.
William Stafford
#77. Apart altogether from our own vital interests, we cannot and must not desert those other nations who have already gone through so much tragedy and suffering to defeat the evil designs of the Axis powers.
Stafford Cripps
#78. I wasn't driven. I just really loved what I did.
Jo Stafford
#79. I am your own way of looking at things," she said. "When you allow me to live with you, every glance at the world around you will be a sort of salvation
William Stafford
#80. Julius Peppers is probably 6'7 and 300 pounds. The great players spend all year round training for 16 games. It isn't fun being on the receiving end.
Matthew Stafford
#81. India has indeed a great and free future before her, in which she can make her special contribution to the well-being of mankind. The first and indispensable part of that contribution is to work with the United Nations for the defeat of fascism and of brutal aggression.
Stafford Cripps
#82. Once we have tasted far streams, touched the gold, found some limit beyond the waterfall, a season changes and we come back changed but safe, quiet, grateful.
William Stafford
#85. I've got a computer, but I won't go near it.
Jo Stafford
#86. What's your cause? Does it move you to tears? What is it that moves you passionately?
Wess Stafford
#87. When you choose to look down on something, you render yourself incapable of understanding it.
Stewart Stafford
#88. The strategies that managers employ are at least as important as the facilities at their disposal.
Anthony Stafford Beer
#89. I worked with AXE Hair to do a promo shoot for the ESPYs and ESPN - it's all about having girl-approved hair. They have a newer product out there with the hair stuff - shampoo, conditioner and all the styling products that they have.
Matthew Stafford
#91. When a goat likes a book, the whole book is gone,
and the meaning has to go find an author again.
- The Trouble With Reading
William Stafford
#92. We have pledged ourselves, and of this the United Nations of the world are witness, to give the fullest opportunity for attainment of self-government by India as soon as hostilities are over. I repeat that that is beyond doubt.
Stafford Cripps
#93. I keep following this sort of hidden river of my life, you know, whatever the topic or impulse which comes, I follow it along trustingly. And I don't have any sense of its coming to a kind of crescendo, or of its petering out either. It is just going steadily along.
William Stafford
#94. I embrace emerging experience.
I participate in discovery.
I am a butterfly.
I am not a butterfly collector.
I want the experience of the butterfly.
William Stafford
#95. Reluctant hero, drafted again each Fourth
of July, I'll bow and remember you. Who
shall we follow next? Who shall we kill
next time?
William Stafford
#96. Please think about this as you go on. Breathe on the world. Hold out your hands to it. When morning and evenings roll along, watch how they open and close, how they invite you to the long party that your life is.
William Stafford
#97. Third down and long is the toughest situation for any offensive coordinator in the NFL.
Matthew Stafford
#98. If you ever feel the person in your life needs rescuing, particularly from him or herself - beware. Codependency is rearing its head again.
David Stafford
#99. A writer is not so much someone who has something to say as he is someone who has found a process that will bring about new things he would not have thought of if he had not started to say them.
William Stafford
#100. What you fear will not go away; it will take you into yourself and bless you and keep you. That's the world, and we all live there.
William Stafford
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