Wallace Stevens Quotes

The dress of a woman of Lhassa, in its place is an invisible element of that place made visible.

Wallace Stevens

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• I've come to realize I'm more spiritual than I am religious. What I mean by this: As far as praying to God goes, I'm more about looking inside for inner guidance - tapping into our own abundantly powerful inner resources - which, I suppose, is where some might say God does indeed reside.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • God
  • Powerful
  • Religious

• Law shuttles between freeing us and enslaving us.

  

  Kary Mullis
  • Law
  • U.S.
  • Between

• I wasn't popular in the home office because I wasn't chicken. I'm just a risk taker. I have gut instincts.

  

  Gary Gygax
  • Home
  • Risk
  • Popular

• Sometimes you lose sight of what's going on around you.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Sometimes
  • Lose
  • Sight

• I think we have to keep working enormously hard to see that every single Indigenous child - every Australian child - has true equality of opportunity. We've got to work harder at it. I think, you know, the heartland issue for us is the gap; the gap in life expectancy in this country.

  

  Quentin Bryce
  • Life
  • Work
  • Country

• To me, evil comes when you have a choice between that and good, and you choose the wrong way.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • Good
  • Evil
  • Choice

• Nations are divided, but we citizens need not be.

  

  Ian Goldin
  • Need
  • Nations
  • Divided

• As women, I think it helps that we are complex creatures by nature so just being a woman helps to understand a woman's journey.

  

  Maggie Q
  • Women
  • Nature
  • Journey

• I have learned so much from God that I can no longer call myself a Christian, a Hindu, a Muslim, a Buddhist, a Jew.

  

  Hafez
  • God
  • Myself
  • Christian

• Sometimes when you're with somebody, and all their stuff is at your house, it's so hard to break up with them.

  

  Bam Margera
  • Up
  • House
  • You

• The Republicans are coming - make nice.

  

  Ed Koch
  • Nice
  • Coming
  • Republicans

• I've been writing and composing songs since I was 5 years old.

  

  Olivia d'Abo
  • Writing
  • Years
  • Old

• A survival tale peels away the niceties and comforts of civilization. Suddenly, all the technology and education in the world means nothing. I think all of us wonder while reading a survival tale, 'What would I have done in this situation? Would I have made it?'

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • World
  • Done
  • Education

• I have reached a limit in my work.

  

  Carlos Mesa
  • Work
  • Limit
  • Reached

• I want to tell President Sarkozy - and through him, all the French people - that they were our support, our light.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • People
  • Light
  • Support

• We don't move on in the stunt unless it looks like a hit. So when I see it on TV, I'm generally satisfied that people are going to buy it.

  

  Victoria Pratt
  • People
  • Looks
  • See

• He was a killer, a thing that preyed, living on the things that lived, unaided, alone, by virtue of his own strength and prowess, surviving triumphantly in a hostile environment where only the strong survive.

  

  Jack London
  • Strong
  • Alone
  • Environment

• As is always the case when you are with the actual human being behind the celebrity or legend, there is something human about the man or woman that makes things less than myth.

  

  Dan Simmons
  • Celebrity
  • Legend

• People can be cruel, but that doesn't mean you have to take it home, wrap yourself up in it and wear it.

  

  Darlene Cates
  • People
  • Up
  • Home

• Fog everywhere. Fog up the river where it flows among green airs and meadows; fog down the river, where it rolls defiled among the tiers of shipping, and the waterside pollutions of a great (and dirty) city.... Chance people on the bridges peeping over the parapets into a nether sky of fog, with fog all round them, as if they were up in a balloon and hanging in the misty clouds.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • People
  • Clouds
  • Meadows

• Most people, 95% of people, are good people. It's the 5% who get seduced by power.

  

  George Hickenlooper
  • People
  • Good
  • Power

• When I hear an interview that I've done, and I've said 'like' a bunch of times, it just cheapens the sentiment.

  

  Andy Grammer
  • Done

• The dress of a woman of Lhassa, in its place is an invisible element of that place made visible.

  

  Wallace Stevens