Wootton Quotes

#1. An ambassador', quipped Sir Henry Wootton, 'is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the good of his country.

Norman Davies

#2. But, he says again, if God much strong, much might as the Devil, why God no kill the Devil, so make him no more do wicked?
I was strangely surprised at his question, [ ... ] And at first I could not tell what to say, so I pretended not to hear him ...

Daniel Defoe

#3. The goal towards which the pleasure principle impels us - of becoming happy - is not attainable: yet we may not - nay, cannot - give up the efforts to come nearer to realization of it by some means or other.

Sigmund Freud

#4. A fear conquered is a fear harnessed.
-Wysteria Morningstar

J. Aleksandr Wootton

#5. The more stories I study, the more I begin to suspect that there is only one story, and that we are, all of us, engaged in telling it.

J. Aleksandr Wootton

#6. From the late David Broder on down, the most powerful and influential of the great Washington columnists and journalists tend to cultivate the driest, least lively voices possible.

Alex Pareene

#7. Why are roses kept for their blossoms rather than shunned for their thorns?

J. Aleksandr Wootton

#8. Sooner or later, everybody dreams of other worlds.

J. Aleksandr Wootton

#9. There you go again, declaring the exact inverse of your experience. You human pups are so full of the things you're sure of. Sit down and listen for a change.

J. Aleksandr Wootton

#10. Grief is always sudden as winter, no matter how long the autumn.

J. Aleksandr Wootton

#11. You are much larger than anything you encounter while you sleep. Everything that happens in dream takes place on a small stage in a corner of your mind.

J. Aleksandr Wootton

#12. Live in the moment ... but don't be led by the moment, or the people who belong to it.

J. Aleksandr Wootton

#13. Does Yggdrasil drink from it because it is the Well of Wisdom, or is it the Well of Wisdom because Yggdrasil drinks from it?

J. Aleksandr Wootton

#14. If all would play first violin, we could not obtain an orchestra. Therefore esteem every musician in his place.

Robert Schumann

#15. Dear Fate, Go away. Leave me be. Allow me to live with my loss, the truth, this revelation.

Christine Brae

#16. Nobody knows that in reading we are re-living our temptations to be a poet. All readers who have a certain passion for reading, nurture and repress, through reading, the desire to become a writer.

Gaston Bachelard

#17. Just because you believe in fairies doesn't mean you have to believe everything they say!
-Petra Godfellow

J. Aleksandr Wootton

#18. furnaces for dyers and brewers, which when known will be used without

David Wootton

#19. Tell them I said something.

Pancho Villa

#20. Sunrise over the mountain-forest was gorgeous - Aurora brushing out her golden tresses with a comb of dark-needled pine and bare-limbed oak.

J. Aleksandr Wootton

#21. Here march the eaters of earth,
the swallowers of rain.

J. Aleksandr Wootton

#22. Hardly has the universe stretched its wings to span
When it gathers to egg once more

J. Aleksandr Wootton

#23. I was betting on cockfights in the Filipino workers' camps when I was 11.

Susanna Moore

#24. The great risk of living is that we might not survive it.

J. Aleksandr Wootton

#25. I have lain long here in your mind, longer than any nightmare has before me. I have sunk my roots into your worst imaginings and feasted on your memories. I know you, child.

J. Aleksandr Wootton

#26. Peace with God and the peace of God in a man's heart and the joy of fellowship with Christ have in themselves a beneficial effect upon the body and mind and will lead to the development and preservation of physical and mental power.

Billy Graham

#27. Death breached the silence first. 'Mortals are always calling for me,' he said, 'Especially mortals whose suffering is very great, and especially mortals whose suffering is of their own making, and especially mortals who have never known suffering.

J. Aleksandr Wootton

#28. Is it the Well of Wisdom because Yggdrasil drinks from it, or does Yggdrasil drink from it because it is the Well of Wisdom?

J. Aleksandr Wootton

#29. Time helps a lot. I found the fame thing really was a torment for a while. Then you learn to deal with it.

Mel Gibson

#30. A possibility thinker notices a problem just long enough to get excited about the solution.

Alan Cohen

#31. The November evening had a bite; it nibbled not-quite-gently at her cheeks and ears. In Virginia the late autumn was a lover, still, but a dangerous one.

J. Aleksandr Wootton

#32. When we're in the middle of a difficult time, we have to speak against that lie that says, "God is not here." We have to draw near to God.

Max Lucado