Wh Auden Sayings

#1. WH Auden: "The first criterion of success in any human activity, the necessary preliminary, whether to scientific discovery or artistic vision, is intensity of attention or, less pompously, love.

ESPN Cricinfo

#2. The monkey girl had made another unscheduled appearance, and it had landed her in jail again. When would she learn to behave with restraint and decorum?

Karen Joy Fowler

#3. Always be open to inspiration. You never know where it may come from. Begin with an open mind, end with an inspired heart.

Sheri Fink

#4. Shane Dekkar. A man to define what all men should desire to become. Perfection, defined.

Scott Hildreth

#5. I don't get emails from my corporate overlords.

Craig Ferguson

#6. Solve the problem yourself or accept a fate you may not like ... from this perspective, the ethic of personal responsibility gains appeal.

Noel Tichy

#7. Your authority extends only to the performance of action; obtaining or not obtaining the fruit is never within your control; therefore, do not be one who performs action with a motive that a specific fruit should be obtained; nor insist on not-performing action.

William Milcetich

#8. We ask the risen Jesus, who turns death into life, to change hatred into love, vengeance into forgiveness, war into peace. Yes, Christ is our peace, and through him to implore peace for all the world.

Pope Francis

#9. The grave and the image are equally links with the irrecoverable and symbols for the unimaginable.

C.S. Lewis

#10. He never asks for endearment, all quiet,
Only gazes at me all the time,
And he bears with a blissful smile
This distressing oblivion of mine.

Anna Akhmatova

#11. I'm not afraid of werewolves or vampires or haunted hotels, I'm afraid of what real human beings to do other real human beings.

Walter Jon Williams

#12. The entire evolutionary record on our planet, particularly the record contained in fossil endocasts, illustrates a progressive tendency toward intelligence. There is nothing mysterious about this:
smart organisms by and large survive better and leave more offspring than stupid ones.

Carl Sagan

#13. We receive from God, then we give to others.

Rick Warren

#14. Americans are from Mars, Europeans are from Venus: they agree on little and understand each other less and less.

Robert Kagan

#15. The Auden/Kallman relationship had this to be said for it: It affirmed that it's better to be blatant than latent.

Christopher Hitchens

#16. John and I noticed that whenever we talked about our children Wystan reached for his cats.

Thekla Clark

#17. Is that why you push people away?" he whispered. "So they can't get close enough to hurt you when they're gone?

Jodi Picoult

#18. We're in His hands." Abby muttered the words she and Phil had said before they left for Iceland. "May God protect us all. He always does." Her breath caught, and she turned to face the horizon with a brimming heart. "He always has.

C.R. Hedgcock