Thelma Wells Quotes

#1. Worry is half impatience and half ignorance.

Austin O'Malley

#2. Abraham Lincoln did not go to Gettysburg having commissioned a poll to find out what would sell in Gettysburg. There were no people with percentages for him, cautioning him about this group or that group or what they found in exit polls a year earlier. When will we have the courage of Lincoln?

Robert Coles

#3. If we do not honor our past, we lose our future. If we destroy our roots, we cannot grow.

Friedensreich Hundertwasser

#4. Your dreams will never come true through some kind of magic.
They will become reality only through self confidence, determination, dedication and effort

Mouloud Benzadi

#5. When an idea comes, spend silent time with it. Remember Keats's idea of Negative Capability and Kipling's advice to "drift, wait, and obey." Along with your gathering of hard data, allow yourself also to dream your idea into being.

Rose Tremain

#6. To contest an author's right to create a poetic or realistic work is to want to force him to change his temperament, challenge his originality, refuse to allow him to use the eye and the intelligence nature has given him.

Guy De Maupassant

#7. God does not always heal us instantly the way we think. He is not a jack-in-the-box God. But God is walking with me through this.

Thelma Wells

#8. I know we're going to die. There's three of us who are going to do something about it.

Tom Burnett

#9. I liked it when we had ugly politicians who droned on about issues.

Ken Livingstone

#10. A man who cannot be enticed by money or intimidated by the threat of jail or death has two of the strongest weapons that anyone has to offer.

Jesse Jackson