D. W. Wilson Quotes

When I see people laughing at ideas and companies we have backed, I smile. It means we are going to make a lot of money on that investment.

I consider my relationship with acting in Hollywood as sort of a mutual breakup. Through puberty, Hollywood didn't really want me anymore, and I was like, 'Yeah, I don't really want you, either.'

Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin, among the members of a society.

I support legal immigration.

My dad wanted to name me after Rainier Maria Rilke, the poet.

I think one of the very frightening things about the regime of the National Socialists is that it made people happy.

As Hitler himself later enunciated, it matters not how idiotic the creed, what matters is the firmness with which it is enunciated.

I might be deceiving myself but I do not think that I do have an inordinate fear of death.

We tell ourselves that God is dead, when what we mean is that God is Dad, and we wish him dead.

Iris Murdoch did influence my early novels very much, and influence is never entirely good.

I'm not saying all publishers have to be literary, but some interest in books would help.

In general, Hitler embodied the view of any popular newspaper.

The approach of death certainly concentrates the mind.

I don't write books inadvertently.

I'm like Jane Austen - I work on the corner of the dining table.

I think I became a Catholic to annoy my father.

My kind publishers, Toby Mundy and Margaret Stead of Atlantic Books, have commissioned me to write the life of Queen Victoria.

Fear of death has never played a large part in my consciousness - perhaps unimaginative of me.

I wanted passionately to be a priest.

Tennyson seems to be the patron saint of the wishy washies, which is perhaps why I admire him so much, not only as a poet, but as a man.

I think that if you can't be loyal to the Church, it's best to get out.

Truth comes to us mediated by human love.

If you imagine writing 1,000 words a day, which most journalists do, that would be a very long book a year.

I'm boring. My beliefs are neither here nor there.

The really clever people now want to be lawyers or journalists.

I had lost faith in biography.

Anti-Semitism is extremely common.

I was once naïve enough to ask the late Duke of Devonshire why he liked the town of Eastbourne. He replied with a self-deprecating shrug that one of the things he liked was that he owned it.

Everyone writes in Tolstoy's shadow, whether one feels oneself to be Tolstoyan or not.

I suppose if I'd got a brilliant first and done research I might still be a don today, but I hope not. People become dons because they are incapable of doing anything else in life.

I do not find it easy to articulate thoughts about religion. I remain the sort of person who turns off 'Thought for the Day' when it comes on the radio.

We believe in a whole-school approach to ICT.

It's just a huge boost for us to have one extra playmaker on our defense. He makes so many impact plays and changes the game a lot.

Spiritual Christians look upon the world not as a playground but as a battleground.

Men are free to decide their own moral choices, but they are also under the necessity to account to God for those choices.

I want to be in a place where I have to have God in everything I do . . . where God is indispensable to me.

All great Christians have been wounded souls.

I can't sing a lick but that's nobody's business. God listens when I sing to Him and He thinks I am an opera star.

Silence is often the most eloquent answer to our critics.

We can take whatever path in worship we choose, but not all paths will end at the feet of Jesus.

Any sermon that is not birthed in prayer is not a message from God no matter how learned the preacher.

If you want to be holy then you must give time to God and not just intend to.

What God declares the believing heart confesses without the need of further proof. Indeed, to seek proof is to admit doubt, and to obtain proof is to render faith superfluous.

Left to ourselves we tend immediately to reduce God to manageable terms.

When a person, yielding to God and believing the truth of God, is filled with the Spirit of God, even his faintest whisper will be worship.

It requires a serious mind and a determined heart to pray past the ordinary into the unusual.

After my study of today's church, my conclusion is that the church is politely bored with God.

We are sent to bless the world, but we are never told to compromise with it.

If you want to be changed, read a good book.

God wants us to make Jesus Christ the central figure in our church--not just say that we do, but actually do it.