Wisdom That Is Woe Quotes

#1. Give not thyself up, then, to fire, lest it invert thee, deaden thee, as for the time it did me. There is a wisdom that is woe; but there is a woe that is madness.

Herman Melville

#2. Before Truman Capote, journalism and non-fiction weren't taken very seriously.

Gerald Clarke

#3. Oh, to be alive in such an age, when miracles are everywhere, and every inch of common air throbs a tremendous prophecy, of greater marvels yet to be.

Walt Whitman

#4. World War II really fascinated me because it's the only time that everybody in this country sat down at the same table, because eating on rations was your patriotic duty.

Ruth Reichl

#5. All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science.

Matthew Arnold

#6. Places, like people, are complex, and loving them isn't simple.

Kate Milford

#7. As each new skill is learned, you will merge it with those previously learned until, one day, you are simply drawing - just as, one day, you found yourself simply driving without thinking about how to do it.

Betty Edwards

#8. The newspapers are full of what we would like to happen to us and what we hope will never happen to us.

John Fowles

#9. You know you're lazy when you run out of toilet paper and use the cardboard roll to wipe with.

Dane Cook

#10. There is a long and well-documented tradition of wisdom in the Christian faith that any venture into leadership, whether by laity or clergy, is hazardous. it is necessary that there be leaders, but woe to those who become leaders.

Eugene H. Peterson

#11. I write to reach eternity

James Jones

#12. Can't you see that you had to be a reckless drifter to bring ... people a bit of child's folly and child's laughter wherever you went? To make all sorts of people love you a little and tease you a little and be a little grateful to you?

Hermann Hesse

#13. I was shy for several years in my early days in Hollywood until I figured out that no one really gave a damn if I was shy or not, and I got over my shyness.

Lucille Ball

#14. Knowledge is power, but it is a terrible power when it is hoarded and hidden.

Kelly Barnhill

#15. When the prophet, a complacent fat man,
Arrived at the mountain-top
He cried: Woe to my knowledge!
I intended to see good white lands
And bad black lands
But the scene is grey.

Stephen Crane

#16. There is a woe that is wisdom, a woe that is madness.

Herman Melville

#17. When you see a singer on stage who is 100% committed to the personality, character and temperament of the role being sung, it's truly awesome and very powerful.

Claron McFadden

#18. That's why he'd bought her. He'd already imagined the children she'd bear and the cotton she'd pick and the house she'd clean every day of her life.

Daniel Black

#19. No one would allow that he could not see these much-admired clothes; because, in doing so, he would have declared himself either a simpleton or unfit of his office.

Hans Christian Andersen