CM. Ward Quotes
Familiarity so dulls the edge of perception as to make us least acquainted with things forming part of our daily life.
I think were struggling with trying to redefine various positions at this point in history. To allow freedom for women, freedom for men, freedom from those sharply defined gender roles.
There's nothing like castrating 20 pigs before lunch. I did that during school whenever the need arose. They'd call out the agricultural class and put us in trucks to go help the local farmers.
There is no human failure greater than to launch a profoundly important endeavour and then leave it half done.
By the numbers, by all the official records, here at the confluence of history, of racism, of poverty, and economic power, this is what our lives are worth: nothing.
This world is magnificent for strangers and pilgrims, but miserable for residents.
Sorrows, as storms, bring down the clouds close to the earth; sorrows bring heaven down close; and they are instruments of cleansing and purifying.
Were one to ask me in which direction I think man strongest, I should say, his capacity to hate.
When you kill 500,000 children in order to impose your will on other countries, then you shouldn't be surprised when somebody responds in kind.
Repentance may begin instantly, but reformation often requires a sphere of years.
My grandmother made her home at Fox How under the shelter of the fells, with her four daughters, the youngest of whom was only eight when their father died.
There is tonic in the things that men do not love to hear. Free speech is to a great people what the winds are to oceans ... and where free speech is stopped miasma is bred, and death comes fast.
But every once in a while, from out of the blue, someone reaches the quiet place where you spend your private time and changes the way you see yourself
A man who does not know how to be angry, does not know how to be good. Now and then a man should be shaken to the core with indignation over things evil.
I am a huge comic book fan, and I love everything vintage: cars, movies, music, art, and style - especially the 1950s style.
Honor your humanness and all of your feelings - the messy ones, the growing pains, the ache - because we can't have the dark without the light.
There is no slave out of heaven like a loving woman; and of all loving women, there is no such slave as a mother.
There are more quarrels smothered by just shutting your mouth, and holding it shut, than by all the wisdom in the world.
What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages. Our best institutions are like young trees growing upon the roots of the old trunks that have crumbled away.
Why do more than 40 percent of Americans think that the Universe began after the domestication of the dog?
V had a passing thought that she used the word "anyway" like an eraser on a crowded chalkboard. She said it whenever she needed to clear off the things she'd just shared to make room for more.
It's a major part of world history that men are trying to kill each other. It's just one slaughter after the other. We talk about it, but no one's really listening.
I love her so damned much." Manny heard himself say. “That’s my heart right there. That’s my woman”.
I am afraid to show you who I really am, because if I show you who I really am, you might not like it--and that's all I got.
But then, gifts are like beauty, are they not. It is in the eye of the recipient that they find their seat, not in the hand of the giver.
God, he was probably too young to be this old, but life had a way of being about experience, rather than calendar days.
Many a man has been dined out of his religion, and his politics, and his manhood, almost.
Our life is in the loom; it rolls up and is hidden as fast as it is woven. It is to be taken out of the loom only when we leave this world; then only shall we see the pattern.
The mere wit is only a human bauble. He is to life what bells are to horses-not expected to draw the load, but only to jingle while the horses draw.
Men are not put into this world to be everlastingly played on by the harping fingers of joy.
It is defeat that turns bone to flint, gristle to muscle, and makes men invincible.
The most miserable pettifogging in the world is that of a man in the court of his own consciences.
If a man has lived in a tradition which tells him that nothing can be done about his human condition, to believe that progress is possible may well be the greatest revolution of all.
Business shouldn't be like sports, separating the men from the women.
The modern world is not given to uncritical admiration. It expects its idols to have feet of clay and can be reasonably sure that the press and camera will report their exact dimensions.