W.D. Frank Quotes

A voice hissed: "He sheds tears!" It was taken around the ring "Usal gives moisture to the dead!" He felt fingers touch his damp cheek, heard the awed whispers.

The blue wall will always be there because the system supports it.

What greater gift is there than to demonstrate you need not fear death?

Empires do not suffer emptiness of purpose at the time of their creation. It is when they have become established that aims are lost and replaced by vague ritual.

Only by zealously guarding the rights of the most humble, the most unorthodox, and the most despised among us can freedom flourish and endure in our land.

The world doesn't make sense until you force it to.

Remember what being an adult is: It has nothing to do with money or awards.

A person who's happy will make others happy; a person who has courage and faith will never die in misery

Good subjects must feel guilty. The guilt begins as a feeling of failure. The good autocrat provides many opportunities for failure in the populace.

How do I relax? This might sound slightly ridiculous but I play the ukulele for at least an hour a day and I find something really blissful about it.

Survival is the ability to swim in strange water.

Sometimes when we think we are keeping a secret, the secret is actually keeping us.

You can actually suffer a little bit more going slowly than when you're going really fast. A faster marathon might even be easier than a slow one, in terms of what it takes out of you mentally.

I started in law school in '71 and graduated in '74. So I was training for the Olympics, running or averaging around 20 miles a day and going to law school full time.

It is a wise man that does know the contented man is never poor, whilst the discontented man is never rich.

And always, he fought the temptation to choose a clear, safe course, warning 'That path leads ever down into stagnation.

New customers are the best source of new business

Fathering is not something perfect men do, but something that perfects the man.

One learns little more about a man from the feats of his literary memory than from the feats of his alimentary canal.

Good listening works magic... Listen intently intentionally!

You seldom come across anything more enjoyable than a happy person.

You aren't thinking or really existing unless you're willing to risk even your own sanity in the judgement of your existence.

Jazz isn't dead. It just smells funny.

As long as you're in the food business, why not make sweets?

Parting with friends is a sadness. A place is only a place.

A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it.

Happiness is hard to recall. Its just a glow.

A large part of crime is economics - if people are working and and have a home and family to support, then I believe you can reduce the crime rate.

Education is no substitute for intelligence.

Most people are too silly to be truly interested in any thing. They herd together like cattle, and do not know what is good for them.

How very wet this water is.

I think there's great potential for autonomy, but we have to remember that we live in a world where people may have free will but have not invented their circumstances.

A leading authority is anyone who has guessed right more than once.

The Fremen were supreme in that quality the ancients called "spannungsbogen" -- which is the self-imposed delay between desire for a thing and the act of reaching out to grasp that thing.

Guilt starts as a feeling of failure.

Mortals seldom know how greatly they are influenced by fairies, knooks and ryls, who often put thoughts into their heads that only the wise little immortals could have conceived.

Shut Up and Play your Guitar.

Most people who are activists and are concerned about issues get their information from sources which reinforce their opinions and give them the facts that they want to hear.

Tosses her head and flips her hair, she got a whole bunch of nothing in there.

Find her, blind her, see who designed her. Act like a dummy until you grind her.

I bought these shoes in Taiwan, and they said in the inside "made around the corner."

Beauty is a pair of shoes that makes you wanna die.

In no other pursuit is the best or the worst in a man brought out as in mountaineering. An old friend of civilization may be a useless companion on a mountain.

Most of us must learn a great deal every day in order to keep ahead of what we forget.

My balls feel like a pair of maracas.

I would like to be able to admire a man's opinions as I would his dog - without being expected to take it home with me.

Imitate nothing except principle.

If enough of us believe, a new thing can be made to exist. Belief structure creates a filter through which chaos is sifted into order.

For many, many years I wouldn't sing 'My Way.' It seemed pretentious for me to sing [my father's] song 'My Way.' Now it must be in the show to help us tell the story.

Why, I just shake the buildings out of my sleeves.