Wister Quotes

#1. In the 1880s, a weedy Easterner named Owen Wister had something like a nervous breakdown. Wyoming, with its wide-open spaces and healthy pursuits, was prescribed as a cure. Wister was immediately smitten by the taciturn cowboys and the rules imposed upon them by the cattle barons.

Clive Sinclair

#2. When yu' can't have what you choose, yu' just choose what you have.

Owen Wister

#3. I thought there should in truth be heavy damages for malpractice on human souls.

Owen Wister

#4. Forgive my asking you to use your mind. It is a thing which no novelist should expect of his reader ...

Owen Wister

#5. An aristocrat in morals as in mind.

Owen Wister

#6. I reckon some parsons have a right to tell yu' to be good. The bishop of this hyeh Territory has a right. But I'll tell yu' this: a middlin' doctor is a pore thing, and a middlin' lawyer is a pore thing; but keep me from a middlin' man of God.

Owen Wister

#7. Like Adam, our first conspicuous ancestor, I must begin, and lay the blame upon a woman; I am glad to recognize that I differ from the father of my sex in no important particular, being as manlike as most of his sons.

Owen Wister

#8. With a gun against my belly I ... I always smile.

Owen Wister

#9. Few children learn to read books by themselves. Someone has to lure them into the wonderful world of the written word; Someone has to show them the way.

Orville Prescott

#10. A person has to be strong in life. A person must practice strength, even if they don't feel it.

Ann Rinaldi

#11. My wife said to me ... you never understood what we were going through back home, did you? And I didn't. And I have to confess that.

Oliver North

#12. But no earthly foot can step between a man and his destiny.

Owen Wister

#13. The more the words the less the meaning and how does that benefit anyone?

Ecclesiastes 6:11

N.D. Richman

#14. Iran has been a neighbor for millenia, and will continue to be a neighbor for millenia. We have no issue with seeking to develop the best terms we can with Iran.

Adel Al-Jubeir

#15. You are speakin' low like me," he answered. "But we have no dream we can wake from

Owen Wister

#16. It seems you don't approve of the family business Katerina. Or of me. But these chances you take ... These things you do ... This is a dangerous life to live ... alone.

Ally Carter

#17. The nearest we have to a Henry James or an Edith Wharton of the East Coast's Wasp upper classes.

Charlotte Curtis

#18. Said Aristotle unto Plato, 'Have another sweet potato?' Said Plato unto Aristotle, 'Thank you, I prefer the bottle.'

Owen Wister

#19. The men who began their life's work on [the cathedrals], they never lived to see the completion of their work.

Raymond Carver

#20. When you can't have what you choose, you just choose what you have.

Owen Wister

#21. I don't diet, I don't do fads, I've just decided to not eat carbs. So no more bread and pasta for the month. I can't live without chocolate, though. I've always got a bar in my handbag. It has to be 72%. Any less and it's too sweet, any more and it's inedible. Like I said, I'm very particular.

Nancy Meyers

#22. It was neither preaching nor praying that made a better man of me, but one or two people who believed in me better than I deserved, and I hated to disappoint them.

Owen Wister

#23. When a man ain't got no ideas of his own, he'd ought to be kind o' careful who he borrows 'em from.

Owen Wister

#24. In the United States 'First' and 'Second' class can't be painted on railroad cars, for all passengers, being Americans, are equal and it would be 'unAmerican.' But paint 'Pullman' on a car and everyone is satisfied.

Owen Wister

#25. I am sorry to be leaving the post of secretary of state for Scotland.

Des Browne

#26. Within the extent of your knowledge, you are right.

Ayn Rand

#27. It may be that them whose pleasure brings you into this world owes you a living, but it don't mean the world is responsible.

Owen Wister