R.T. Wolfe Quotes

That we are capable only of being what we are remains our unforgivable sin.

I think a lot of people read the album cover as something scary or creepy. I think it's something positive...something lasting.

We must never violate principles. We must never initiate violence. And we should never harm the innocent. But at some point, unless governments back off, we have to stop being nice.

So powerful is the charm of words, which for us reduces to manageable entities all the passions that would otherwise madden and destroy us.

You seem to think that the only genuine existence evil can have is conscious existence - that no one is evil unless he admits it to himself. I disagree.

We have treatments for disturbed persons, Nicholas. But, at least for the time being, we have no treatment for disturbing persons.

...in some situations winning consist[s] of disentangling oneself.

There is such a choice of difficulties that I am myself at a loss how to determine.

A few regular troops from old France, weakened by hunger and sickness, who, when fresh, were unable to withstand the British soldiers, are their general's chief dependence.

I'm hoping that Penn State will one day be able to find a cure for cancer. Being a part of THON means I'm doing my part to find that cure.

I work to create systems that can accurately detect pandemics early, determine their likely importance, and, with any luck, crush those that have the potential to devastate us.

My entire career, in fiction or nonfiction, I have reported and written about people who are not like me.

The first newspaper I worked on was the 'Springfield Union' in Springfield, Massachusetts. I wrote over a hundred letters to newspapers asking for work and got three responses, two no's.

Those who find beauty in all of nature will find themselves at one with the secrets of life itself.

Now God be praised, I will die in peace.

We ought to be more focused on enemies without than preoccupied with finding them within.

I think I finally fell in love with NY.. I miss it already !

Add in the good stuff - eventually it will crowd out the bad stuff.

You have to be very careful with who you do business. It's like a marriage. Do your research and check references.

I have done more live events in the past twenty years than I have eaten dinner.

Being on the road and doing events is like getting kids ready for school for most families.

UNIX is a user-friendly operating system. It just picks its friends more carefully than others.

The raw food wave has swept through, and now it is the superfoods wave. The next thing to happen will be super herbalism.

No, I don't take soup. You can't build a meal on a lake.

I believe in plenty of optimism and white paint.

I opened the doors and windows of America, and let the air and sunshine in.

Never, under any circumstance, do I touch soup, as I do not believe in building a meal on a lake.

Science has so accustomed us to devising and accepting theories to account for the facts we observe, however fantastic, that our minds must begin their manufacture before we are aware of it.

I don't think anyone is more intrinsically holy. People experience God in many ways; and it seems to me that God does what the rest of us do: He chooses the means that best gets His message across.

Men to whom wine had brought death long before lay by springs of wine and drank still, too stupefied to know their lives were past.

Gentlemen, I would rather have written those lines than take Quebec tomorrow.

Do something every single day that scares you...and then watch growth happen.

Only the dead know Brooklyn.

The world was simply and sheerly divided into 'the aware', those who had the experience of being vessels of the divine, and a great mass of 'the unaware', 'the unmusical', 'the unattuned.

America is a wonderful country! I mean it! No honest writer would challenge that statement! The human comedy never runs out of material! it never lets you down!

It's funny, don't you think, how time seems to do a lot of things? It flies, it tells, and worst of all, it runs out.

What a man knows hardly matters. It is what he does.

When a gift is deserved, it is not a gift but a payment.

It really took me a long time to become comfortable as a performer. I think I'm finally starting to enjoy playing live.

If you find diseases before they've really emerged, you can control them early on, before you get a major epidemic.

it is either make this thing permanent inside of you or forever just climb draggled up into the conning tower every time for one short glimpse of the horizon.

No machines will ever truly fully figure the brain out, because the brain's performance is constantly altered or else constrained by this inanimate, rogue artifact you can't control, namely, speech.

You can be denounced from the heavens, and it only makes people interested.

Vietnam was really an idealistic thing to stop the spread of communism, which, incidentally, it did. It was a pretty costly way to do it, but it achieved its goal.

Nonfiction is never going to die.

Most people don't read editorial pages. I think I must have been 40 before I even looked at an editorial page.

There is no magic. There is only knowledge, more or less hidden.

And then there's the sickness I feel from looking at legs I can't touch, or at lips that don't smile at me. Or hips that don't reach for me. And hearts that don't beat for me.

The city buildings in the distance are holding up the sky, it seems.

In every aspect of the religious life, American faith has met American culture--and American culture has triumphed.