Wetmore Quotes

#1. You don't go around questioning the Bible, not if you want to go to Heaven one of these days. Besides, once you start picking holes in things, it's hard to figure out which parts to throw away and which parts to keep.

Jenny Wingfield

#2. Public perception of the Westminster arena, with all its posturings, does little to engender a sense of voter belief.

Charles Kennedy

#3. It's funny how you never think about the women you've had. It's always the ones who get away that you can't forget.

Chuck Palahniuk

#4. Of every noble work the silent part is best; of all expression, that which cannot be expressed.

William Wetmore Story

#5. But the gray and the cold are haunted by a beauty akin to pain, by a sense of a something wanted that never will come again.

William Wetmore Story

#6. O Christmas Sun! What holy task is thine!
To fold a world in the embrace of God!

Guy Wetmore Carryl

#7. There's going to be positive and negative in anything in life.

Samuel Larsen

#8. A lizard, resting in the shade of the anthill, studied Atkinson with interest, tilting its head this way and that. Atkinson studied it in return. A small, dull brown animal, usually it would not catch Atkinson's attention, but under the circumstances it became a thing of beauty.

Martin Marais

#9. Oh! faint delicious spring-time violet, Thine odor like a key, Turns noiselessly in memory's wards to let A thought of sorrow free.

William Wetmore Story

#10. Don't be afraid to speak up for yourself. Keep fighting for your dreams!

Gabby Douglas

#11. The Moral is that gardeners pine, Whene'er no pods adorn the vine. Of all sad words experience gleans, The saddest are: It might have beans.

Guy Wetmore Carryl

#12. I sing the hymn of the conquered, who fell in the Battle of Life,-The hymn of the wounded, the beaten, who died overwhelmed in the strife ... The hymn of the low and the humble, the weary, the broken in heart,Who strove and who failed, acting bravely a silent and desperate part.

William Wetmore Story

#13. The shadows of twilight grow,
And the tiger's ancient fierceness
In my veins begins to flow.

William Wetmore Story

#14. The humble man reached in his pocket for his sacred book, and began to read. It was this world alone that was certain.

Alan Paton

#15. The Poet in his ArtMust intimate the whole, and say the smallest part.

William Wetmore Story

#16. Once we are honest about our feelings, we can invite ourselves to consider alternative modes of viewing our pain and can see that releasing our grip on anger and resentment can actually be an act of self-compassion.

Sharon Salzberg

#17. They only the victory win,
Who have fought the good fight and have vanquished the demon that tempts us within;
Who have held to their faith unseduced by the prize that the world holds on high;
Who have dared for a high cause to suffer, resist, fight
if need be, to die.

William Wetmore Story