D. W. Wilson Quotes

You shouldn't call then anything. They're poor unfortunate people who cannot help the way they look,

Was this how trauma worked? she wondered. Those closest to it remained dumbfounded by the fact that those who weren't present could derive meaning from it?

We can afford to exercise the self-restraint of a really great nation which realizes its own strength and scorns to misuse it.

Loving others isn't about us at all. And until that sinks in, we'll never be able to love the way Christ truly loved.

Leave some room in your theology for God to be bigger than you can explain

The frightening thing is that, to enter hell, all one has to do is nothing.

You have a perfect right to consign us all to hell, rector, but you must allow us the choice of how we get

We cannot infer from prosperity that God is pleased with us, nor can we infer from adversity that he is displeased with us.

In the book, you lost your powers. In the movie, you chose not to use them as much. I guess I did a little of both.

Capitalism has run its course, and we shall have to look for other ideals than the ones that capitalism has encouraged.

As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly.

Violent overthrow of the revolution is revolutionary, and compromise with the revolution is revolutionary.

If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.

If you want to be somebody in this world, don't fear any sacrifice it will be recommended for you to be who you want

Withdrawing back is like ending school withouth examination which means your not tested to face the professional aimed at. Never get back on the aimed forward processes.

I don't think that anyone outside Paris can understand love and murder as we do.But Emile loves Paris, and loving Paris is a murderous education. ("Anthropology: What Is Lost In Rotation")

They began their climb, already weary, and the sun tried to steal whatever strength they had left. It was another god, a forgotten god, who gave a daily reminder, and was forgotten again each night.

Mystics are all a bit funny in the head anyway, " the priest added cynically, "which is why the church locks them all up in mental hospitals and euphemistically calls these institutions monasteries.

a Nepali outlook, pace and philosophy had prevented us being swamped by our problems. In Nepal it was easier to take life day by day.

I have associated myself with failed scientists in order to associate myself with failed irony. ("Metier: Why I Don't Write Like Franz Kafka")

Because He lives, I can face yesterday.

Welcome to His poem. His play. His novel. Skip the bowls of fruit and statues. Let the page flick your thumbs. This is His spoken word.

Real scientists do not take vacations. They take field trips...

To reject Christ because the church has sin of this sort in it is like rejecting hospitals because they are full of sick people.

If there are weeds in my garden, I have a problem. But it does not lead me to question the existence of lettuce.

He had no big plan for this. He had not prepared for the day when he would be fighting his own work. He had not plotted against his own plots.

Be careful with this one" said Dina, bending down to greet the cat. "All cats are half jinn, but I think she's three quarters.

My sincere desire is to write in a style that is simple enough for a child to understand, yet powerful enough to change lives.

Most artists weren't famous until they died (mostly because once they'd died they couldn't create any more art, so it would make it more valuable).

You've got a deep core of sweetness that's quite incorruptible.

The cultural problem was 'the fallacy of insignificance', and it was a philosophical form of this fallacy that had somehow landed existentialism in a cul de sac.

There is no good or evil here, it all depends on what side you're standing. Nor is it about wrong or right, it's about surviving." Triven

If we keep punishing people for what their parents or their ancestors have done, the world as a whole can never move forward. Society will never grow.” -Triven

Areté is a word that means excellence in character and life. It is the accumulation of virtue in one's life.

When the dead are afraid, you know there's a big problem.

Yes, but I am not human and to expect me to live by your rules or values is unrealistic. For my kind, I am quite altruistic.” Tyler Jones/Dhavenbahtek to Thulu and La Fi.

Reo Malone - "You can't put the genie back in the bottle.

Slowly, Rupert Greeves raised his head. His eyelids fluttered and the corner of his mouth twitched up. 'What, ' he asked the world, 'can you do to erase my laughter?

I stared at him. Maybe it had been hard for him being second best too.

Major Chhetri's pronouncement when we'd first arrived in Nepal came echoing back: "Things that start in the rain end well.

Wedged as we are between two eternities of idleness, there is no excuse for being idle now.

It wasn't until I worked in the Perth Hospital kitchen in the 1970s that I began hearing stories about the ghosts that haunted their halls at night.

But if that was going to happen, it was going to happen whether or not he worried about it.

Worry is down payment on a problem that hasn't happened. Trust Jesus!

Sometimes you find bad luck and good luck in the same place.

Some people carry their luck with them and people got to find it.

He realized that the ritualized world he had dismissed as feminine was in fact civilization.

Life without risk is a life that is benign and sterile.

[S]elfish members win within groups, but groups of altruists best groups of selfish members. (63)

Life may suck but death is worse.