S.L. Wallace Quotes
Freedom is like a man who kills himself Each night, an incessant butcher, whose knife Grows sharp in blood.
Children picking up our bones Will never know that these were once As quick as foxes on the hill.
Style is not something applied. It is something that permeates. It is of the nature of that in which it is found, whether the poem, the manner of a god, the bearing of a man. It is not a dress.
This is what is meant by last words: they are keys to unlock the afterlife. They're not last words but passwords, and as soon as they're spoken you can go.
Intolerance respecting other people's religion is toleration itself in comparison with intolerance respecting other people's art.
The only time you have no opportunities is when you decide to stop taking them.
Look at all the buses now that want exact change, exact change. I figure if I give them exact change, they should take me exactly where I want to go.
After much prayerful consideration, I feel that I must say I have climbed my last political mountain.
Patriotism is considered to be an emotion a person ought to feel. But why? Why is it nobler to love your own country than to love someone else's?
New York is a field of tireless and antagonistic interests undoubtedly fascinating but horribly unreal. Everybody is looking at everybody else a foolish crowd walking on mirrors.
Desire for increased wealth is not evil... it is simply the desire for more abundant life; it is aspiration.
You must learn to see men and women...as perfect beings advancing to become complete.
There is not the least cause for worry about financial affairs; every person who wills to do so may rise above want, have all he needs, and become rich.
They say that man is mighty, He governs land and sea, He wields a mighty sceptre, O'er lesser powers that be.
The grateful mind is constantly fixed upon the best. Therefore it tends to become the best. It takes the form or character of the best, and will receive the best.
No one is kept in poverty by a shortness in the supply of riches, there is more than enough for all.
...you can render to God and humanity no greater service than to make the most of yourself.
The first ten thousand drawings are the hardest. Put another way, you have ten thousand bad drawings within and should expel them as quickly as possible.
You can serve God and man in no more effective way than by getting rich; that is, if you get rich by the creative method and not by the competitive one.
When you are in doubt, wait. Fall back on the contemplation of your vision, and increase your faith and purpose. And by all means, in times of doubt and indecision, cultivate gratitude.
Whatever may be said in praise of poverty, the fact remains that it is not possible to live a really complete or successful life unless one is rich.
Gold is where you find it, according to an old adage, but judging from the record of our experience, oil must be sought first of all in our minds.
I was making my living from a joke about my appearance that I didn't understand, and in a way still don't, because when I look in a mirror it doesn't seem funny to me.
I have been vain since birth. I expected other people to like what I did, although my vanity has definitely diminished over the years.
I'm in awe of people out there who deal with Alzheimer's, because they have to deal with death 10 times over, year after year.
I have a deep conviction that our lives are eternal, that it is waking and sleeping, that we are born together with the people we love lifetime after lifetime.
Be good to yourself. Listen to your body, to your heart. We're very hard on ourselves, and we're always feeling like we're not doing enough. It's a terribly hard job.
A man thirty years old, I said to myself, should have his field of life all ploughed, and his planting well done; for after that it is summer time.
They're building a bridge over the Potomac for all the white liberals fleeing to Virginia.
I often think I can see it in myself and in other young writers, this desperate desire to please coupled with a kind of hostility to the reader.
They said, 'You have a blue guitar, / You do not play things as they are.' / The man replied, 'Things as they are / Are changed upon the blue guitar.'
The interesting thing is why we're so desperate for this anesthetic against loneliness.
The imagination is the liberty of the mind It is intrpeid and eager and the extreme of its achievement lies in abstraction.
Union of the weakest develops strength not wisdom. Can all men, together, avenge one of the leaves that have fallen in autumn? But the wise man avenges by building his city in snow.
Nuclear weapons and TV have simply intensified the consequences of our tendencies, upped the stakes.
What our eyes behold may well be the text of life but one's meditations on the text and the disclosures of these meditations are no less a part of the structure of reality.
