Welter Quotes

#1. Many a month of gloomy unconsciousness rolled over me, without date or notice. One thousand waves may welter over a sunk wreck, and be felt as one.

Charles Robert Maturin

#2. You can live as a particle crashing about and colliding in a welter of materials with god, or you can live as a particle crashing about and colliding in a welter of materials without god. But you cannot live outside the welter of colliding materials.

Annie Dillard

#3. None of this means anything. Anything of significance, that is. I am just amusing myself, musing, losing myself in a welter of words. For words in here are a form of luxury, of sensuousness, they are all we have been allowed to keep of the rich, wasteful world from which we are shut away.

John Banville

#4. I was too miserable to take much consolation just from feeling good for a moment in a welter of shudders and salted, bloodstained tears.

Anne Rice

#5. Editors keep pushing
deadline strain while people sleep
on benches and subway grates;
a welter weight boxer dances
on the platform at 125th Street
station, commuters look unfazed...

Kristen Henderson

#6. It is surprising, in the welter of questions that one gets at (AGMs), how few actually relate to the performance of the company, or the decisions taken by the board in particular areas.

John Harvey-Jones

#7. Out of the welter of rapture and anger and heartbreak and hurt pride that he had left, depression emerged to sit upon her shoulder like a carrion crow.

Margaret Mitchell

#8. How deep is the weatherfront of time
that advances, roaring and calm
unendingly between was and will be?
A millisecond? A few hours? All secular life
worldwide, all consequences of past life
travel in it.
(from 'The Welter')

Les Murray

#9. We shall be branded with the steel of clinging shame if we leave the Philippines to fall into a welter of bloody anarchy," he proclaimed, "instead of taking hold of them and governing them with righteousness and justice, in the interests of their own people even more than in the interests of ours.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

#10. In the welter of statistics about selected ethnic origins (singular or multiple) in the last census, one finding was often overlooked. Of the 25,309,330 people living in Canada in 1986, only 69,065 declared themselves as Canadians.

Charlotte Gray

#11. Let there be an end ... of all this welter of pity, which is only self-pity reflected onto some obvious surface.

D.H. Lawrence

#12. Lose your schematic conventions by finding some surprising symbol or shape in the welter of shades, and draw that.

Adam Gopnik

#13. It took place in the midnight in the University's Great Hall, in a welter of incense, candlesticks, runic inscriptions and magic circles, none of which was strictly necessary but which made the wizards feel better.

Terry Pratchett

#14. Archaeology is the study of humanity itself, and unless that attitude towards the subject is kept in mind archaeology will be overwhelmed by impossible theories or a welter of flint chips.

Margaret Murray

#15. The river runs through the heart of the city, and braiding around and over and under the river, the city's rail system is a welter of tarnished silver ribbons.

Sarah Monette

#16. They say that one must beat one's wings against the storm in the belief that beyond this welter the sun shines

Virginia Woolf

#17. I confess I prefer to engage with pictures which I've chosen myself out of the welter of unidentified pictures, without the intrusion of too much personal context - Ilike to be a detective, and dislike being an impresario.

Luc Sante

#18. When you love someone, it's the most real thing in the universe.

Debasish Mridha

#19. I think I've developed into an actress because I've worked darn hard at it and I've learned a great deal from a lot of gifted people. And if I have nothing else to show for my life, apart from a scrapbook full of cuttings, I have the knowledge that my early days in Hollywood weren't in vain.

Veronica Lake

#20. May the spirit of Christ so fill us afresh that we might in turn be a refreshment and an encouragement to one another.

Alistair Begg

#21. It's not so much a case of having to pay attention to the news of the world as it is a case of knowing when to change our filters so that the important stuff comes in.

Bill Welter

#22. If less was more, she had a great deal.

Louise Penny

#23. I turned Hamlet down because it was going to take up too much of my drinking time.

Richard Harris

#24. I was trying to have an insight, and all I could think of was that I'd backed myself into a corner, and the corner was me.

John Welter

#25. Here I was, telling him a heartwarming story about my first and only pet, a goldfish that died the day after I won it with a well-placed ping-pong ball at the County Fair, and he had a still-breathing corpse in the trunk.

Nicole Castle

#26. Virtues may be made to serve whatever end profits you. Still, they exist and will influence your actions. Your choices.

Ann Leckie