Derek Walcott Quotes

When you're young, influences count.

Derek Walcott

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• I mean, horror films in general put humans in these awful supernatural or horrible situations, but 'Cabin In The Woods' cranks it up a few notches and becomes outrageous and totally bizarre.

  

  Fran Kranz
  • Up
  • Mean
  • Supernatural

• People love to be told what they know already.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Love
  • Know

• What can be indissoluble if a perpetual Union, made more perfect, is not?

  

  Salmon P. Chase
  • Perfect
  • More
  • Union

• Whether we or our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • Nature
  • Party
  • Justice

• It's also reflective of a young person's religion or faith in that it's highly charged with sacramental imagery and with country imagery, because I was in the seminary for so many years in the country.

  

  Daniel Berrigan
  • Country
  • Faith
  • Religion

• I think often that God is guiding me.

  

  Natalia Makarova
  • God
  • Think
  • Me

• I learned a lot about America and a lot about Pat Schroeder, and that's why I will not be a candidate for President.

  

  Patricia Schroeder
  • Why
  • America
  • Will

• Pakistan is a peace-loving, democratic country.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Country
  • Peace
  • Democratic

• I am an honest person, transparent, that look citizens straight in their faces.

  

  Vicente Fox
  • Person
  • Honest
  • Straight

• Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • Imagination
  • Learn
  • See

• As a person of color from the South, San Francisco was the first city that really made me feel like an other.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • City
  • Person
  • Feel

• Is it fair to treat a woman worse than a man, and then revile her because she is a woman?

  

  Victoria Woodhull
  • She
  • Man
  • Woman

• All art is a confession.

  

  Gaston Lachaise
  • Art
  • Confession

• Like Leibniz's possible worlds, most men are only equally entitled pretenders to existence. There are few existences.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Men
  • Existence
  • Possible

• All my brothers and brothers-in-laws tell me what a good-hearted guy I am. You don't get to be good-hearted by accident. You get kicked around long enough, you become a professor of pain.

  

  Paddy Chayefsky
  • Good
  • Long
  • Guy

• It is commonly observed, that when two Englishmen meet, their first talk is of the weather; they are in haste to tell each other, what each must already know, that it is hot or cold, bright or cloudy, windy or calm.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Cold
  • Calm

• I am, I must confess, suspicious of those who denounce others for having 'too much' sex. At what point does a 'healthy' amount become 'too much'? There are, of course, those who suffer because their desire for sex has become compulsive; in their cases the drive (loneliness, guilt) is at fault, not the activity as such.

  

  Edmund White
  • Desire
  • Sex

• …my two chronic diseases of gluttony and satyriasis…

  

  Anthony Burgess

• Not snow, no, nor rain, nor heat, nor night keeps them from accomplishing their appointed courses with all speed.

  

  Herodotus
  • Speed
  • Heat
  • Accomplishing

• Being happy means you've decided to accept the imperfections and get on with it anyway.

  

  Alice Kuipers
  • Happy
  • Accept
  • Imperfections

• With reference to other religions, the Church sees a great difference between them and herself. The other religions are expressions of the human soul seeking God, with some beautiful spiritual insights, but also not without errors. Christianity is rather God seeking humanity.

  

  Francis Arinze
  • Beautiful
  • Humanity
  • Spiritual

• Popular and democratic government is the only constitution which suits France, and all those who are worthy of the name of men.

  

  Camille Desmoulins
  • Constitution
  • Democratic
  • Worthy

• Scientists and academics in particular focus on detail and the minutiae. When they talk to each other, they usually don't focus on the broad ideas; they don't focus on social interconnectedness. They focus on the task that they're doing.

  

  Aaron D. O'Connell
  • Focus
  • Ideas
  • Doing

• When you're young, influences count.

  

  Derek Walcott