Wars Findley Quotes

#1. Freedom comes from seeing the ignorance of your critics and discovering the emptiness of their virtue.

Ayn Rand

#2. Eliminating some 3600 post offices - mostly rural - will save the USPS less than seven tenths of one percent of their operating budget, but nationally, a number of tribal communities will be hit.

Winona LaDuke

#3. When Mrs Ross asked him what he was thinking of, he shrugged. But he was thinking of the time he'd climbed the steeple of a church when he was ten-and had seen, for the very first time, the world spread out around him like a gift.

Timothy Findley

#4. Ignorance causes pain, but awareness creates happiness. Therefore, look for enlightenment every day.

Linda Alfiori

#5. Houses, trees and fields of flax once flourished here. Summers had been blue with flowers. Now it was a shallow sea of stinking grey from end to end. And this is where you fought the war.

Timothy Findley

#6. I'm as apolitical as possible. I don't hang out with too many people. I'm a loner. For the most part, when I show up, I read a book or work on my computer, and stay out of everybody else's way.

Eric Bischoff

#7. The crutch of Time accomplishes more than the club of Hercules.

Baltasar Gracian

#8. The dualism itself becomes a sort of presupposition or datum; its terms condition the further problem.

James Mark Baldwin

#9. Sookie, you really are smarter than anyone gives you credit for being.

Charlaine Harris

#10. All of this happened a long time ago. But not so long ago that everyone who played a part in it is dead. Some can still be met in dark old rooms with nurses in attendance.

Timothy Findley

#11. 1915. The year itself looks sepia and soiled-muddied like its pictures. In the snapshots everyone at first seems timid-lost-irresolute. Boys and men squinting at the camera.

Timothy Findley

#12. A novel is more a symphony, opera, oratorio. It exists in time, it goes by you a sound dying out as you write on, so that it is very hard to keep in touch with the whole thing ...

Dorothy Bryant