D. W. Wilson Quotes
As runners we all have the same challenges and share the same experience, with the goal to accomplish something and better ourselves.
The good oxymoron, to define it by a self-illustration, must be a planned inadvertency.
The choosing among words is made by every user of the language, and not exclusively by professional speakers and writers.
Prose is not necessarily good because it obeys the rules of syntax, but it is fairly certain to be bad if it ignores them.
The day which we fear as our last is but the bday of eternity. - By SenecaThe first hundred years are the hardest.
Berry Gordy believed in owning the artist for life and controlling everything: the money, the station wagons, everything.
There are those who scoff at the schoolboy, calling him frivolous andshallow: Yet it was the schoolboy who said 'Faith is believing what youknow ain't so'.
Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
October: This is one of the peculiarly dangerous months to speculate in stocks. The others are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, December, August and February.
To all intents and purposes Roxy was as white as anybody, but the one sixteenth of her which was black outvoted the other fifteen parts and made her a Negro. She was a slave, and salable as such.
No man can rationally live, worship, or love his neighbour on an empty stomach.
As fallible humans, we usually slip too far over one edge or the other - all wrath and judgment or all grace and love.
You must believe in yourself, otherwise we are all lost to darkness
Believe more deeply. Hold your face up to the light, even though for the moment you do not see.
Comparisons deplete the actuality of the things compared... ("Conveyance: The Story I would Not Want Bill Wilson To Read")
...each part of a story, each word if possible, was to work frontally as well as laterally... ("Conveyance: The Story I would Not Want Bill Wilson To Read")
You are not here merely to making a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement.
Education is fundamentally religious. Consequently, there is no question about whether a morality will be imposed in that education, but rather which morality will be imposed.
We have not given science too big a place in our education, but we have made a perilous mistake in giving it too great a preponderance in method in every other branch of study.
So the stories aren't just stories, is what you're saying. They're really secret knowledge disguised as stories.""One could say that of all stories, younger brother.
Metaphors: knowledge existing in several states and without contradiction
Success certainly isn’t achievement of popularity. Success in God’s kingdom is loving God, loving one another, and being faithful to what He’s called us to do.
The people you are closest to tend to be able to hurt you the most - that is why heartbreak is so hard to deal with, why death is so painful, and why fights can destroy things that matter.
...There were no measures that truly protected against disaster you simply held on to what mattered and hoped that you found your way to the other side.
The idea of living forever makes me uncomfortable, and at this point I've lived long enough and seen enough Twilight Zone episodes to know that there's always a catch.
Our biggest fear is not in expressing the truth but that we will be attacked or belittled because of our truth.
Fear is leaden. Courage is golden. Let go of the weight of the world, and you will fly.
You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world.
Sometimes all the players get a bad hand. You just have to be determined enough to see the game through.
A messy house is a must - it separates your true friends from other friends.Real friends are there to visit you not your house!
I can’t imagine anything more life-giving, more comforting, or more fun than being curled up andsurrounded by a group of women who know you deeply, and love you relentlessly.
I felt tears pricking inside my eyelids. Maybe I came first with Oliver
I felt tears pricking inside my eyelids. Maybe I came first With Oliver.
It seems there are some problems even Prosecco and cake can't make better.
At one point in time, every friend was a stranger. Love changed that.
As an adult, most of my friends are women . . . they, too, had that moment when they realized they were all the “other girls, ” and that every girl in the world is, too.