Robert Wilson Lynd Quotes

In order to see birds it is necessary to become a part of the silence.

Robert Wilson Lynd

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• I have absolutely no regret about my vote against this war. The same questions remain. The cost in human lives, the cost to our budget, probably 100 billion. We could have probably brought down that statue for a lot less.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • War
  • Regret
  • Questions

• We all had lots of stories of our sad experiences - they mourned the death of my wife with me - but we were hopeful that the children would return.

  

  Otto Frank
  • Children
  • Death
  • Wife

• As a costume designer, I first try to figure out what the character's economic situation is and hit the stores they'd shop.

  

  Patricia Norris
  • Character
  • Situation
  • Try

• I come from a wonderful country with wonderful people.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • People
  • Country
  • Wonderful

• A beginner must look on himself as one setting out to make a garden for his Lord's pleasure, on most unfruitful soil which abounds in weeds. His Majesty roots up the weeds and will put in good plants instead. Let us reckon that this is already done when the soul decides to practice prayer and has begun to do so.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • Up
  • Good
  • Done

• I'm not a stone-thrower when it comes to Hillary Clinton and her emails and her server. I don't think there has been criminal intent on Hillary Clinton's part. I don't see an indictment.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Think
  • See
  • Intent

• I feel it's tougher for the guys, because if I break up with them, then they can go on and be forced to watch me on TV every day. I don't see them.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • Up
  • Me
  • Day

• I don't have anything against my mom, but my family has no emotional connection to each other.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Family
  • Mom
  • Emotional

• Cinema is entertainment, and people go to the movies because they want to feel good and forget about everything.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • People
  • Good
  • Want

• Me.

  

  Hank Aaron

• The reform of a college English department cuts no ice down at the corner garage.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • College
  • English

• So long as the product is sold, everything is taking its regular course from the standpoint of the capitalist producer.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Long

• Lying on my hotel bed, mesmerized by the lazy turns of the ceiling fan, I pondered the possibility that I was nuts. It wasn’t unheard of, even in the days of the Bitchun Society, and even though there were cures, they weren’t pleasant.

  

  Cory Doctorow
  • Society
  • Lazy

• Philosophy, if it cannot answer so many questions as we could wish, has at least the power of asking questions which increase the interest of the world, and show the strangeness and wonder lying just below the surface even in the commonest things of daily life.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Life
  • World
  • Power

• If it be asked, What is the most sacred duty and the greatest source of our security in a Republic? The answer would be, An inviolable respect for the Constitution and Laws - the first growing out of the last... A sacred respect for the constitutional law is the vital principle, the sustaining energy of a free government.

  

  Alexander Hamilton
  • Free
  • Energy
  • Law

• Each person's greatest room for growth is in the areas of his or her greatest strength.

  

  Marcus Buckingham
  • Growth

• Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.

  

  Margaret Mead

• Nice guys finish last.

  

  Leo Durocher
  • Nice

• Isolation offered its own form of companionship: the reliable silence of her rooms, the steadfast tranquility of the evenings. The promise that she would find things where she put them, that there would be no interruption, no surprise. It greeted her at the end of each day and lay still with her at night.

  

  Jhumpa Lahiri
  • Night
  • Silence
  • Promise

• Now that we have learned to fly the air like birds, swim under water like fish, we lack one thing - to learn to live on earth as human beings.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Fly
  • Learned
  • Birds

• To care about words, to have a stake in what is written, to believe in the power of books - this overwhelms the rest, and beside it one's life becomes very small.

  

  Paul Auster
  • Believe
  • Book
  • Care

• I've pretty much given up on the orange. I really have. I just don't even bother. It's just either sour, or woody, or the skin's too thick. It's very nice when you come across the perfect orange, because it's really a beautiful experience. But the stakes are too high.

  

  Scott Thompson
  • Beautiful
  • Perfect
  • Nice

• Money buys you the freedom to live your life the way you want.

  

  Keanu Reeves
  • Life
  • Live
  • Money

• In order to see birds it is necessary to become a part of the silence.

  

  Robert Wilson Lynd
  • Silence
  • Birds