Wendell Berry Quotes

We need better government, no doubt about it. But we also need better minds, better friendships, better marriages, better communities.

Wendell Berry

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• How lucky am I?

  

  Olivia Williams
  • Lucky
  • How
  • Am

• The beauty of a Moroccan riad is undeniable, but even the most die-hard fan may find herself growing a little weary of what can come to feel like a one-size-fits-all aesthetic: tilework, white Berber rugs, woolen tribal throw pillows in reds and ochers, cut-metal lanterns.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • May
  • Growing
  • Die

• I love high heels from the age of 10! Short skirts and then high heels. My classmates used to make fun of me. Like, 'Ooh, she's so skinny and she's wearing high heels.' But I just wore what I like, and I didn't care about people's opinions, the same as I don't care now.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • People
  • Fun
  • Like

• I just lip gloss! It doesn't matter if it's $2 or $30.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Matter
  • Just
  • Lip Gloss

• We make a ladder for ourselves of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Same
  • Vices
  • Ladder

• I've always been an actor, a lowly actor without power, so I've never been corrupted. I've never even directed.

  

  Laura Fraser
  • Power
  • Always
  • Never

• The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao; the name that can be named is not the eternal name. The Nameless is the origin of Heaven and Earth; the Named is the mother of all things.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Mother
  • Earth
  • Heaven

• I keep endlessly busy with all kinds of stuff, mostly horses, cattle, livestock, things like that.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Like
  • Busy
  • Cattle

• Our critics would love nothing more for us to go away and just be quiet. And we won't give them that satisfaction. We have young children that, one day, when they understand more of what's happened and what's transpired, we wanna be able to say to them, you know, we did our best. And we told the truth.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Love
  • Truth
  • Give

• Discontent, blaming, complaining, self-pity cannot serve as a foundation for a good future, no matter how much effort you make.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Good
  • Future
  • Effort

• I love involving actors at all levels - and they have to know that I want to hear their contributions, with dialogue, with story suggestions, with script changes, whatever.

  

  Lasse Hallstrom
  • Know
  • Story
  • Actors

• I don't want to get fat.

  

  Sammy Sosa
  • Want
  • Get
  • Fat

• If you want to meet a woman, it's best just to smile and say hi.

  

  Karen McDougal
  • Best
  • Woman
  • Smile

• More than half of all the hip hop record sales are white people, and I think that might be a result of my record helping people to accept hip hop.

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • People
  • Think
  • Sales

• I think I usually have quite ordinary dreams. Sometimes my dreams take me to other dimensions. I can travel in my mind especially when I'm dreaming I focus my mind on what I want to dream. If I want to fly, I focus on flying.

  

  Uri Geller
  • Mind
  • Dream
  • Focus

• It's very difficult to balance different audiences and talk to each one without selling the others short. There is no universal literature - or, if there is, I don't know how to write it.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Different
  • Balance
  • Literature

• I was not the son of a worker or lacking in material or social resources for a relatively comfortable existence; I could say I miraculously escaped wealth.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Son
  • Existence
  • Wealth

• Well, we spend an awful lot of our time working and doing experiments. It's very busy up on the shuttle.

  

  Sally Ride
  • Up
  • Time
  • Doing

• The problem with all these tired excuses for inaction is that it suggests a fundamental lack of faith in American business and American ingenuity.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Business
  • American
  • Faith

• Spain- a great whale stranded on the shores of Europe.

  

  Elizabeth Oakes Smith
  • Europe
  • Spain

• No human mind may measure the blessings conferred by the game of base ball on the soldiers of the Civil War. It had its earliest evolution when soldiers, North and South, were striving to forget their foes by cultivating, through this grand game, fraternal friendships with comrades in arms.

  

  A. G. Spalding
  • Baseball
  • Friendships
  • Soldiers

• As Jews, we are commanded to give tzedakah - an act of justice, not charity - because it is the righteous thing to do.

  

  Lynn Schusterman
  • Justice
  • Charity

• The only function that one experience can perform is to lead into another experience; and the only fulfillment we can speak of isthe reaching of a certain experienced end. When one experience leads to (or can lead to) the same end as another, they agree in function.

  

  William James
  • Speak
  • Certain
  • Agree

• We need better government, no doubt about it. But we also need better minds, better friendships, better marriages, better communities.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • Doubt
  • Friendships