St. Vincent Quotes

I shouldn't precisely have chosen madness if there had been any choice, but once such a thing has taken hold of you, you can't very well get out of it.

I believe the challenge the city faces is attracting continued development into the inner and western part of Jersey City. Nobody should be left behind as Jersey City continues to prosper and grow.

The word "no" denotes a shutting of the door. It means failure, defeat, delay. But spell in backwards and take new hope, for backwards it spells "on."

What color is in a picture, enthusiasm is in life.

The wisest persons, surprised by some passion, often say things they later regret.

Perhaps someday everyone will have neurosis.

It was a terrible day for baseball, it was a worse day for Congress.

Safe upon the solid rock the ugly houses stand. Come and see my shining palace built upon the sand!

. . . [T]hose persons who console you today may humiliate you tomorrow.

For the great doesn't happen through impulse alone, and is a succession of little things that are brought together.

The mind quickly responds to teaching and discipline. You can make the mind give you back anything you want.

Sometimes my hands they don’t feel like my own; I need someone to love, I need someone to hold.

[I]t is His good pleasure that we remain always in the holy joy of His love.

Laws must never be made compatible with crimes, no more than lying should be in harmony with the truth.

Let us reflect that we shall always do God's Will and He will do ours when we carry out that of our Superiors.

Anybody can do just about anything with himself that he really wants to and makes up his mind to do. We are all capable of greater things than we realize.

I believe more and more that God must not be judged on this earth. It is one of His sketches that has turned out badly.

Acting is not a mystery. There's nothing that I know that other actors don't know. We all act, we're all actors, we all know the same thing. The only thing that separates us is experience.

In Asia, red is the colour of joy; red is the colour of festivities and of celebration. In Chinese culture, blue is the colour of mourning.

I change my thoughts, I change my world.

Do you know that drawing with words is also an art... ?

No one but Gene Tierney could have played 'Laura.' There was no other actress around with her particular combination of beauty, breeding, and mystery.

Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.

Take charge of your mind and begin to fill it with healthy, positive, and courageous thoughts.

We must endeavor to have God reign sovereignly in us, and then in others. The trouble with me is that I take more care to have Him reign in others than in myself.

If I could have two things in one: the peace of the grave, and the light of the sun.

If you must be in a hurry, then let it be according to the old adage, and hasten slowly.

Our Lord and the saints accomplished more by suffering than by acting.

Think positively about yourself.... ask God who made you to keep on remaking you.

A Poem from Edna St. Vincent Millay: Grown-up Was it for this I uttered prayers, And sobbed and cursed and kicked the stairs, That now, domestic as a plate, I should retire at half-past eight?

Remember that "Help us grow this grass" is a far more effective sign than "Keep off the grass".

Whenever a negative thought concerning your personal power comes to mind, deliberately voice a positive thought to cancel it out.

[His acting] remains forever fixed in a time that never dates.

If one keeps loving faithfully what is really worth loving, and does not waste one's love on insignificant and unworthy and meaningless things, one will get more light by and by and grow stronger.

I have some vivid memories of walking around as a child with a cassette tape.

Any action is better than no action at all.

When every physical and mental resources is focused, one's power to solve a problem multiplies tremendously.

Hack fiction exploits curiosity without really satisfying it or making connections between it and anything else in the world.

Within the pages of The Betrayal of America I prove that these justices were absolutely up to no good, and they deliberately set out to hand the election to George Bush.

I found eternal peace in a Shinto shrine. I've been to Shinto shrines and God is everywhere. Christ is one of the ways! God is everywhere.

If you're honest with yourself, you're going to find out whether you truly love America, or whether your primary allegiance is to the Republican party.

We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.

The age which we live in is not suited to idle complacency or to pleasant dreams of past greatness.

At some time, here or hereafter, every account must be settled, and every debt paid in full.

God answers prayer in three ways: yes, no, and wait awhile.

When obstacles or difficulties arise, the positive thinker takes them as creative opportunities.

Hold an image of the life you want, and that image will become fact.

Someday death will take us to another star.

I hate people but I love gatherings.

I want you. I want only you. I want all of you. But I'll take whatever you're ready to give.