T.R. Wallace Quotes

Read only the most optimistic comments on the world's news; those in harmony with your picture.

It is love and friendship, the sanctity and celebration of our relationships, that not only support a good life, but create one. Through friendships, we spark and inspire one another's ambitions.

The happiness of love is in action; its test is what one is willing to do for others.

Whatever you get paid attention for is never what you think is most important about yourself.

Never admit the possibility of failure, or speak in a way that infers failure as a possibility.

I have brought you to the ring, now dance if you can!

Quentin Tarantino is interested in watching somebody's ear getting cut off; David Lynch is interested in the ear.

Youth hasn't got anything to do with chronological age. It's times of hope and happiness.

In all works on Natural History, we constantly find details of the marvellous adaptation of animals to their food, their habits, and the localities in which they are found.

Civilisation has ever accompanied emigration and conquest - the conflict of opinion, of religion, or of race

"Without faith it is impossible to please God," and without faith it is impossible for you to become great. The distinguishing characteristic of all really great men and women is an unwavering faith.

I'd like to be the sort of person who can enjoy things at the time, instead of having to go back in my head and enjoy them.

Talent can't be taught, but it can be awakened.

They say when you meet the love of your life, time stops, and that's true. What they don't tell you is that when it starts again, it moves extra fast to catch up.

We are not dead but asleep, dreaming of ourselves.

The river is moving. The blackbird must be flying.

One of the most persistent of all delusions is the conviction that the source of our dissatisfaction lies outside ourselves.

Oh, sweet thy current by town and by tower, The green sunny vale and the dark linden bower; Thy waves as they dimple smile back on the plain, And Rhine, ancient river, thou'rt German again!

It is the beginning of wisdom when you recognize that the best you can do is choose which rules you want to live by, and it's persistent and aggravated imbecility to pretend you can live without any.

Truth is born into this world only with pangs and tribulations, and every fresh truth is received unwillingly.

I cannot bear to associate with the ordinary run of people. I have to surround myself with individuals who for the most part are more than a trifle insane

Obey your soul, have perfect faith in yourself. Never think of yourself with doubt or distrust, or as one who makes mistakes.

I hold with Henry George, that at the back of every great social evil will be found a great political wrong

Close your ears to all adverse suggestions. Never mind if people call you a fool and a dreamer. Dream on.

To exercise some sort of control over others is the secret motive of every selfish person.

It was evening all afternoon. It was snowing And it was going to snow. The blackbird sat In the cedar-limbs.

Human nature is like water. It takes the shape of its container.

Fascism is a worldwide disease. Its greatest threat to the United States will come after the war, either via Latin America or within the United States itself.

If you are not happy in your work, you are a slave.

Fromage and coffee and cognac and no gods.

At the sight of blackbirds Flying in a green light, Even the bawds of euphony Would cry out sharply.

This is a fight between a free world and a slave world.

An ounce of doing things is worth a pound of theorizing.

Begin to do small things in a great way...You must put the whole power of your great soul into every act.

I am thankful I can see much to admire in all religions.

Leave every person you come in contact with, with the impression of increase.

... because all things have contributed to your advancement, you should include all things in your gratitude.

Nothing was ever in any man that is not in you; no man ever had more spiritual or mental power than you can attain, or did greater things than you can accomplish. You can become what you want to be.

To become convinced that you can succeed is the first requisite to success.

We are mere journeymen, planting seeds for someone else to harvest.

Rap's conscious response to the poverty and oppression of U.S. blacks is like some hideous parody of sixties black pride.

The chrysanthemums' astringent fragrance comes Each year to disguise the clanking mechanism Of machine within machine within machine.

Greatness is attained only by the thinking of great thoughts.

The world about us would be desolate except for the world within us.

I know noble accents And lucid, inescapable rhythms; But I know, too, That the blackbird is involved In what I know.

You will become way less concerned with what other people think of you when you realize how seldom they do.

In my solitude I have pondered much on the incomprehensible subjects of space, eternity, life and death.

The worldwide, agelong struggle between fascism and democracy will not stop when the fighting ends in Germany and Japan.

If you're going to get old, you might as well get as old as you can get.

The prophets and seers and great men and women, past and present, were made great by what they perceived from God, not by what they were taught by men.