Wendell Berry Quotes

We are living even now among punishments and ruins.

Wendell Berry

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• The utterly fallacious idea at the heart of the pro-war argument is that it is the duty of the anti-war argument to provide an alternative to war. The onus is on them to explain just cause.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Heart
  • War
  • Argument

• I think it's fair to say that all of the teams that have been in the playoffs have played very physically.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Think
  • Say
  • Very

• Brandon Boyd of Incubus is hot, but he's too pretty.

  

  Rachel Perry
  • Pretty
  • Hot
  • Too

• Listen to my voice - I sound like I'm permanently congested.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Like
  • Voice
  • Listen

• I apologize profusely to those I have offended deeply a million times over.

  

  Vanity
  • Over
  • Million
  • Offended

• By rights you're a king. If I was you, I'd call for a new deal.

  

  O. Henry
  • King
  • Rights
  • New Deal

• I feel like I should be more in touch with the nuances of this game.

  

  Ichiro Suzuki
  • Game
  • Like
  • Feel

• I wish I had read more and majored in literature rather than theatre. I think I would have been a better artist for it. I am trying to play catch-up now.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Artist
  • Literature
  • Theatre

• I found a certain kind of music congenial to me; it never occurred to me to write music that was academically acceptable.

  

  Carlisle Floyd
  • Music
  • Me
  • Kind

• To expect for me to be one-way every time you see me is to expect me to be a one-dimensional man, which I've never been. I've always applauded my efforts to be diverse and multi-faceted.

  

  T.I.
  • Time
  • Man
  • Way

• To be a novelist, all I need is a pen and a piece of paper.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Need
  • Paper
  • Pen

• We must differentiate between guilt and duty. The soldier on the front, like the common man, who does his duty everywhere, should not be held responsible for the actions of a few who also called themselves Germans.

  

  Oskar Schindler
  • Man
  • Soldier
  • Guilt

• Each generation must recreate liberty for its own times.

  

  Florence Ellinwood Allen
  • Liberty
  • Generation
  • Times

• The biggest problem with dyslexic kids is not the perceptual problem, it is their perception of themselves. That was my biggest problem.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Kids
  • Problem
  • Perception

• Men gossip for just as long and about the same subjects as women, but tend to talk more about themselves.

  

  Kate Fox
  • Men
  • Long
  • Women

• I consider myself fortunate to have grown up in Brooklyn. It's what gave me my drive to succeed, the upward mobility I've been after my whole life.

  

  Ian Schrager
  • Life
  • Me
  • Succeed

• Baseball always gets credit for the foundational part of masculinity - the father thing. The eternal game of backyard catch, 'Field of Dreams', the Ripkens, the Griffeys, the Bondses, so on. But football is the real paternal game, because it's a conveyor belt of father figures, in the form of coaches.

  

  J. R. Moehringer
  • Real
  • Father
  • Game

• The very things I might have given in to, that demanded, that said, this is your life. I mean, this is your only way to survive, are the things I fought hardest to end. 'Cause I believed in something else. And um, what makes that sane is that I can understand other people's situations in their own terms, but I still can't understand mine.

  

  Edie Sedgwick
  • People
  • Life

• I feel like if you have balance in life, you have to be consumed by your job because, ultimately, it will never be a job; it will never be something that you feel you're working on.

  

  Jonathan Anderson
  • Life
  • Job
  • Balance

• If you don't text your relationship partner - even if you just saw them in person - it's like you're doing something wrong.

  

  Khalid
  • Relationship
  • Partner
  • Text

• We've also started promoting in Japan, and compared to TVXQ sunbaes, we still have to secure a place. We all like TVXQ very much. We hope this time we'll use the chance to become more intimate with the members.

  

  Dong Young-bae Big Bang
  • Time
  • Hope
  • Use

• Most people don't know how to tell stories.

  

  Ted Rall
  • People
  • Know
  • Most

• Evangelicals have like millions of rules. And it's just, uh, we have sort of an accepted, rationalism within which we frame religion. And we think that belief, intellectually, is of the same as relationship. And in our Western family conversation, that's become an incredible impediment toward actual wholeness, where the heart and the head are aligned and relationship -- with not just God but with each other.

  

  William P. Young
  • Thinking
  • Heart
  • Belief

• We are living even now among punishments and ruins.

  

  Wendell Berry