William Alexander Percy Quotes

#1. Music without a message is just sound

Jake Miller

#2. To the mind that could dream and shape our beaconed universe, what is injustice to us may be unfathomable tenderness, and our horror only loveliness misunderstood.

William Alexander Percy

#3. White. A blank page or canvas. So many possibilities.

Stephen Sondheim

#4. I have a need of silence and of stars.
Too much is said too loudly. I am dazed.
The silken sound of whirled infinity
Is lost in voices shouting to be heard ...

William Alexander Percy

#5. It is a very nice world-that is, if you remember that while morals are all-important between the Lord and His creatures, what counts between one creature and another is good manners.

William Alexander Percy

#6. They ask little, for they know it is little they will receive for all their asking, but what little is so dear, as it always is to the autumn-hearted who know life is pitiful and infinitely sweet.

William Alexander Percy

#7. Christmas, and the end of the year, is definitely a time when people try their hardest to begin afresh, "a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time; when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely". (Dickens - "A Christmas Carol") - and JEAN

Charles Dickens

#8. daughter had had a way of saying things that rubbed Nora the wrong way. More often than not, they both ended up saying something they regretted.

Kristin Hannah

#9. I'm a good authoritarian figure; I don't know why. 'Can you be a cop?' Sure. 'Can you be a Marine?' Absolutely. Well, at least in a movie.

Henry Rollins

#10. When you accept everything for what it is without labels you are outside of your ego.

Eckhart Tolle

#11. The way the people around you position themselves around you to get in your pockets and in your mind is infuriating to me.

Dave Chappelle

#12. I suspect anyway that the important things we learn we never remember because they become a part of us, we absorb them ... we don't absorb multiplication tables.

William Alexander Percy

#13. Whom does the Grail serve? It serves those who quest despite the odds - for they are the champions of enlightenment.

Laurence Gardner

#14. And would it not be proud romance Falling in some obscure advance, To rise, a poppy field of France?

William Alexander Percy

#15. As with all great teachers, his curriculum was an insignificant part of what he communicated. From him you didn't learn a subject, but a life ... Tolerance and justice, fearlessness and pride, reverence and pity, are learned in a course on long division if the teacher has those qualities ...

William Alexander Percy

#16. You think everyone pervs you."... "That's cos they do, and you're just jealous, cos I'm gorgeous and you're not." ~ conversation between Dante &Ash

Marita A. Hansen

#17. Suddenly there was this intensity to everything we did and everything we said. Like my life had been itelicized.

Cora Carmack

#18. Across the dying fire, Seth Clearwater - his eyes wide with adulation for the fraternity of tribal protectors- nodded his agreement.

Stephenie Meyer

#19. Delay leads impotent and snail-paced beggary.

William Shakespeare