Gene Wolfe Quotes

When a tree is very old, yet still lives, sometimes the limbs are strangely twisted.

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• I was 21 in 1968, so I'm as much a child of the '60s as is possible to be. In those years the subject of religion had really almost disappeared; the idea that religion was going to be a major force in the life of our societies, in the West anyway, would have seemed absurd in 1968.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Life
  • Religion
  • Child

• If Clark Gable had a Facebook page, there would have been a 'Gone with the Wind 2.'

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Wind
  • Page
  • Facebook

• As to the media, they are protected by the First Amendment, as they should be.

  

  L. Neil Smith
  • Media
  • First Amendment

• The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an age is heroic because of what it is, not because of what it does.

  

  Lascelles Abercrombie
  • Age
  • Reason
  • Poetry

• The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is yet willing to learn more.

  

  Ed Parker
  • Man
  • Learn
  • Intelligent

• Passive fatalism can never be the role of a revolutionary party, like the Social Democracy.

  

  Karl Liebknecht
  • Party
  • Democracy
  • Social

• But though cognition is not an element of mental action, nor even in any real sense of the word an aspect of it, the distinction of cognition and conation has if properly defined a definite value.

  

  Samuel Alexander
  • Real
  • Action
  • Value

• I went to the Westminster College for Men in Missouri, which is what it was called back then, and transferred to the University of Denver where I ultimately got my degree.

  

  Ted Shackelford
  • Men
  • College
  • Back

• Banking gives you a glimpse into what makes companies succeed and what makes companies fail.

  

  Sally Jewell
  • You
  • Succeed
  • Banking

• I'm most excited about all of the non-currency uses of the block chain's ledger-ordering ability. I have no idea which ones will turn out to be successful, but I'm glad all of that experimenting is happening.

  

  Gavin Andresen
  • Idea
  • Successful
  • Ability

• Strivers achieve what dreamers believe.

  

  Usher
  • Believe
  • Dreams
  • Achieve

• In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Long
  • Women
  • Apple

• I think life gives you lemons, and the thing that I'm working on doing is not watering it down, not putting sugar in it. Just drink it straight. The more you can take life head on... it's gonna make you a better person, and then you have nothing left to be afraid of. And what an awesome way to live.

  

  Cam
  • Life
  • Live
  • Awesome

• I would describe my look as 'ladylike rock chick.'

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Rock
  • Look
  • Describe

• What you wear onstage is a reflection of your artistry.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • You
  • Reflection
  • Artistry

• One of the secrets of a successful life is to be able to hold all of our energies upon one point, to focus all of the scattered rays of the mind upon one place or thing.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Focus

• There's only one set of books I've written that I knew was going to be more than one book at the beginning, and those are the 'Missing Link' books.

  

  Kate Thompson
  • Book
  • Beginning
  • Missing

• If I could do what Hilary Mantel does, I would probably do that. She is more intelligent and a better researcher and knows more what she's about than I do.

  

  Garth Risk Hallberg
  • She
  • Better
  • Intelligent

• If we could suppose a great multitude of men to consent to the observation of justice, and other laws of Nature, without a common Power to keep them all in awe; we might as well suppose all mankind to do the same; and then there neither would be nor need to be any civil government or commonwealth at all, because there would be Peace without subjection.

  

  Thomas Hobbes
  • Government
  • Justice
  • Observation

• Roots are nice, but a tree can’t run.

  

  Andrew Vachss
  • Running
  • Nice
  • Tree

• Without the Christian explanation of original sin, the seemingly silly story of Adam and Eve and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, there was no explanation of conflict. At all.

  

  Donald Miller
  • Good
  • Knowledge
  • Evil

• 'I didn’t want to scare you. We don’t want to scare anyone.''No? Well, sometimes it’s a good thing to scare people. Sometimes fear is all that will keep them from doing stupid things.'

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • People
  • Good
  • Fear

• Usually, when a young girl is pregnant, she drops out of school and concentrates on being a mother. I thought that's what I had to do, but my counselors told me there was no way they would let me drop out. I had too much promise.

  

  Jenni Rivera
  • School
  • She
  • Mother

• When a tree is very old, yet still lives, sometimes the limbs are strangely twisted.

  

  Gene Wolfe
  • Tree