Top 100 Wallis Quotes
#1. On resigning as collaborator on the memoirs of the former Wallis Warfield Simpson, new summaries, 6 October 1955. You can't make the Duchess of Windsor into Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm.
Cleveland Amory
#2. Despite our significant public-policy differences, I commend Jim Wallis for advocating religious belief as an invaluable resource in addressing the urgent moral and social crises of our time.
Richard Land
#3. Correct. President Wallis was the president before the Chinese assault and continued leading the United States throughout the war,
Kiera Cass
#4. It may be said that the conceptions of differential quotient and
integral, which in their origin certainly go back to Archimedes,
were introduced into science by the investigations of Kepler,
Descartes, Cavalieri, Fermat and Wallis ...
Sophus Lie
#5. Wallis," said his master dreamily when his man appeared again, "I want some more real clothes. Tired of sleeping-suits. Get me some, please. Good night.
Margaret Widdemer
#6. And the way you lost your temper!" went on Wallis enthusiastically. "Oh, Mr. Allan, it was beautiful! You haven't been more than to say snarly since the accident! It was so like the way you used to throw hair-brushes
Margaret Widdemer
#7. No old Men (excepting Dr. Wallis) love Mathematicks.
Isaac Newton
#8. In England especially, I've found that if you bring up King Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson at a dinner party or a social gathering, it's like throwing a Molotov cocktail into the room.
Madonna Ciccone
#9. The women are drinking and laughing inside somewhere, Wallis guesses, as manless as these men are without women.
Sheri Holman
#10. Wallis,' said Maturin, 'I am happy to see you. How is your penis?
Patrick O'Brian
#13. I think that's every unresolved person's dream, to wake up one day and know what they want to do the rest of their life.
Ashley D. Wallis
#14. Last year, Americans spent $450 billion on Christmas. Clean water for the whole world, including every poor person on the planet would cost about $20 billion. Let's just call that what it is: A material blasphemy of the Christmas season.
Jim Wallis
#17. I am so anxious for you not to abdicate and I think the fact that you do is going to put me in the wrong light to the entire world because they will say that I could have prevented it.
Wallis Simpson
#18. But the sun rises again when the night is past, and, as it begins a new life with renewed strenght and vigour, it became the type of the new life which the Egyptian hoped to live in the world beyond the grave.
E.A. Wallis Budge
#19. There can be no summary and dramatic end to a marriage - only a slow and painful unravelling of a tangled skein of threads too stubborn to be broken.
Wallis Simpson
#20. Doing the long lines - it looks easy when actresses do it: they just say it straight up, looks like they do nothing wrong, they just keep going, but it's not like that.
Quvenzhane Wallis
#21. We kind of fell into one another, not even realizing it was happening.
Ashley D. Wallis
#22. The kingdom of God, which Jesus came to inaugurate, is meant to create an alternate reality in this world, and ultimately to transform the kingdoms of this world.
Jim Wallis
#23. When religion is manipulated for political gain, faith loses its prophetic stance.
Jim Wallis
#24. I feel like I'm five sometimes because I still enjoy myself. I enjoy what I do.
Quvenzhane Wallis
#25. When a man is willing to set aside the legitimate appetites of the body to concentrate on the work of praying, he is demonstrating that he means business, that he is seeking with all his heart, and will not let God go unless He answers.
Arthur Wallis
#27. At the heart of every revival is the spirit of prayer.
Arthur Wallis
#28. Nothing else matters except that I have fun, and I'm still having fun.
Quvenzhane Wallis
#29. I would never get married in a conventional way; I'd have the 'Curb' music as the union music.
Annabelle Wallis
#30. Forgive me for not writing but this man is exhausting.
Wallis Simpson
#32. You can't be evangelical and associate yourself with Jesus and what he says about the poor and just have no other domestic concerns than tax cuts for wealthy people.
Jim Wallis
#33. Fasting is calculated to bring a note of urgency and importance into our praying, and to give force to our pleading in the court of heaven. The man who prays with fasting is giving heaven notice that he is truly in earnest.
Arthur Wallis
#34. It just doesn't make spiritual sense to suggest that the evil all lies "out there" with our adversaries and enemies, and none of it is "in here" with us - embedded in our own attitudes, behaviors, and policies.
Jim Wallis
#36. They forget that we, too, have earned the right to live! So I say if we are going to die, my friend, let us die trying, not sitting.
Velma Wallis
#37. The lack of vision in public life and the emptying out of values that visionless leadership creates lead to a politics of complaint.
Jim Wallis
#38. I met the president when he was president-elect at a meeting in Austin. He spoke of his faith. He spoke of his desire for a compassionate conservatism, for a faith-based initiative that would do something for poor people.
Jim Wallis
#39. PS: It's all gossip about the prince. I'm not in the habit of taking my girlfriends' beaux.
Wallis Simpson
#40. The real essence of any marriage that has struggled, however unsuccessfully, towards happiness, lies in the growth of a wordless understanding that what is acceptable to one partner will be acceptable to the other.
Wallis Simpson
#41. I'm often asked what I think about the faith of the President George W. Bush. I think it is sincere. I think it's very real. I think it's deeply held.
Jim Wallis
#42. I love all the Pixar movies, and I like 'Happy Feet Two.' 'Cause it has a lot of babies.
Quvenzhane Wallis
#43. The little girl's face was from Will's vilest nightmares. Cavernous mouth, distended chin, bastardized nose. The enormous, bulging eyes glared at Will, demanded he see the truth, commanded him to acknowledge his sin.
Kevin Wallis
#44. A single man of good intelligence must be in want of a library card.
Trudy Wallis
#47. I don't think we should discriminate against an organization or congregation because they're religious, if they're doing good work. But government can't subsidize proselytizing or worship or religious activity. It can't.
Jim Wallis
#48. But when we place God on our side of things, that we are now ridding the world of evil - that's very dangerous, that one nation has this role to rid the world of evil. What about the evil we have committed, that we are complicit in?
Jim Wallis
#50. People in L.A. think I'm so posh. They think I live in 'Downton Abbey.'
Annabelle Wallis
#51. This year - today - I am repenting of my dependence on fossil fuels.
Jim Wallis
#52. It's not good to assume what your kid wants. It's not good to push them in their own way. It's not good to make them do something you wanted to do but didn't have the chance to. You should listen to what your kids are saying, and let them live, and let them be themselves.
Quvenzhane Wallis
#53. Warmth cocooned her, and she slipped into sleep without even noticing where she was.
Alice Wallis-Eton
#54. A woman's life can really be a succession of lives, each revolving around some emotionally compelling situation or challenge, and each marked off by some intense experience.
Wallis Duchess Of Windsor
#55. I'm not gonna name names, but sometimes when reporters are talking, it gets a little boring because I don't have any jokes to tell because the questions are so serious.
Quvenzhane Wallis
#56. Some people believe the alternative to bad religion is secularism, but that's wrong ... The answer to bad religion is better religion
prophetic rather than partisan, broad and deep instead of narrow, and based on values as opposed to ideology.
Jim Wallis
#57. Hope is believing in spite of the evidence, and then watching the evidence change.
Jim Wallis
#58. Spirituality becomes a commodity to be bought and sold. So spirituality has to be disciplined by social justice.
Jim Wallis
#59. If you are a 5-year-old, you just go ahead and try something. You don't think about it. You are just a little kid.
Quvenzhane Wallis
#61. Of course, when strangers see me, they're star-struck because of who I am, but my friends take me as a friend because I'm their friend - not because I'm a movie star.
Quvenzhane Wallis
#62. I never make a trip to the United States without visiting a supermarket. To me they are more fascinating than any fashion salon.
Wallis Simpson
#63. Osiris became the type and symbol of resurrection among the Egyptians of all periods, because he was a god who had been originally a mortal and had risen from the dead.
E.A. Wallis Budge
#64. If the president is going to use so much language of theology and the Bible, then let's use that language for a serious discussion about the war in Iraq. And that was never done.
Jim Wallis
#65. To dig our heels in and say no to a present madness is a good thing, but to walk a new path and say yes is a better thing.
Jim Wallis
#66. He would take a cactus home if Jane recommended it as toilet paper. Soon
Trudy Wallis
#67. Even Quinn joined in and took his turn picking obscure items, like a feather cloak that originated in far-off New Zealand.
Alice Wallis-Eton
#68. Trade is now clearly designed to favor the wealthiest and most powerful corporations at the expense of the rest of us. The three wealthiest people on earth now control more assets than the combined incomes of 600 million people in the world's 48 poorest countries.
Jim Wallis
#69. It is doubtful that the government knows much more than the public does about how government [Economic] policies will work.
W. Allen Wallis
#70. I believe in the separation of church and state, absolutely. But I don't believe in the separation of public life from our values, our basic values, and for many of us, our religious values.
Jim Wallis
#71. I envision the script as a story in my mind, memorize the entire thing and have it play out. It helps me figure out where my character needs to go.
Quvenzhane Wallis
#72. The great thing about social movements is everybody gets to be a part of them.
Jim Wallis
#73. What is my calling? What am I supposed to do? I think running for office, public office, can be a divine calling. I mean, I've wrestled with that very question myself.
Jim Wallis
#74. Two of the greatest hungers in our world today are the hunger for spirituality and the hunger for social change. The connection between the two is the one the world is waiting for, especially the new generation. And the first hunger will empower the second.
Jim Wallis
#75. He doesn't agree with the conventional wisdom that says, "The world changed on September 11." Hauerwas says, "No, the world changed in 33 A.D. The question is how to narrate what happened on September 11 in light of what happened in 33 A.D.
Jim Wallis
#77. My favorite animal is a polar bear. They're going extinct, and I really don't want that to happen.
Quvenzhane Wallis
#78. I played back every empty sigh, every night I slept alone, and saw what I never wanted to see before - a lost girl crying out to me for help. I just noticed too late.
Ashley D. Wallis
#79. Martin Luther King Jr. really understood the role of the churches when he said, 'The church is not meant to be the master of the state.' We don't sort of take power and grab the levers of government and impose our agenda down people's throats.
Jim Wallis
#80. You have no idea how hard it is to live out a great romance.
Wallis Simpson
#81. The crowning blessing of a true visitation of the Holy Spirit is a mighty harvest for the kingdom of God.
Arthur Wallis
#82. I work with my acting coach to help me get into character and do pronunciation drills and tongue twisters to help me deliver lines.
Quvenzhane Wallis
#83. But when one believes that you've been appointed by God for a particular mission in history, you have to be very careful about that, how you speak about that. Where is the self-reflection in that? Where is the humility in that?
Jim Wallis
#84. Sometimes it's the scars that remind you that you survived. Sometimes the scars tell you that you have healed.
Ashley D. Wallis
#85. A billion dollars every week for Iraq, $87 billion for Iraq. We can't get $5 billion for childcare over five years in welfare reform.
Jim Wallis
#86. [Answering the question 'If you had caused the end of the world, what would you do?'] I would try to fix it. I would go to bed on time and brush my teeth.
Quvenzhane Wallis
#87. A Hymn of Praise to Osiris Un-Nefer, the great god who dwelleth in Abtu, the king of eternity, the lord of everlastingness, who tra-verseth millions of years in his existence.
E.A. Wallis Budge
#88. I feel very happy since the Lord called me to step out in faith, and I obeyed. The Lord is our inexhaustible treasure.
Arthur Wallis
#89. It's time for white Christians to be more Christian than white.
Jim Wallis
#90. The best response to bad religion is better religion, not secularism.
Jim Wallis
#91. I will get up. I will get dressed. I will find the love of my life. Right after I finish this chapter.
Trudy Wallis
#92. Pat Robertson is an embarrassment to the church and a danger to American politics, .. It's time for Christian leaders of all stripes to call on Robertson not just to apologize but to retire.
Jim Wallis
#93. He wasn't sure why he felt so compelled to follow the singing, or why he needed to bring the foot with him, but he knew the two phenomena were connected. And in the midst of the mystery lay his father. His father's sanity. Nicholas was sure of this.
Kevin Wallis
#94. Hope unbelieved is always considered nonsense. But hope believed is history in the process of being changed.
Jim Wallis
#95. Prevailing prayer requires a tender, compassionate heart, a deep solicitude for the glory of God and the good of His people. Nehemiah wept and mourned.
Arthur Wallis
#96. The failure of political leaders to help uplift the poor will be judged a moral failure.
Jim Wallis
#97. We are prophetic interrogators. Why are so many people hungry? Why are so many people and families in our shelters? Why do we have one of six of our children poor, and one of three of these are children of color? 'Why?' is the prophetic question.
Jim Wallis
#99. The fragrance of rain mixes with the smell of old books. It is heavenly - that combination of threat and safety.
Trudy Wallis
