Walker Percy Quotes
Like many young men in the South, he had trouble ruling out the possible. They are not like an immigrant's son in Passaic who desires to become a dentist and that is that. Southerners have trouble ruling out the possible. What happens to a... man to whom all things seem possible and every course of action open? Nothing of course.
Quotes to Explore
-
I think we Americans tend to put too high a price on unanimity, as if there were something dangerous and illegitimate about honest differences of opinion honestly expressed by honest men.
-
Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood and probably themselves will not be realized.
-
Never go out to meet trouble. If you just sit still, nine cases out of ten, someone will intercept it before it reaches you.
-
The antagonisms between men and women express themselves in the most delicate phase of their life together - in their sexual relationship.
-
I wonder if there'll ever be a time where you're not judged by your appearance. It seems that wherever you've got to, your appearance is always discussed. It's never said about men. We talk about a man's charisma, not his looks.
-
On Earth, men and women are taking the same risks. Why shouldn't we be taking the same risks in space?
-
I decided that Europeans and Americans are like men and women: they understand each other worse, and it matters less, than either of them suppose.
-
I have nothing maternal in me, and men want to be mothered a lot of the time.
-
I'm done with men... I'm going to be alone. I have no luck with relationships. I don't think I'm made for marriage.
-
Writers are not meant for action.
-
By nature, men desire the beautiful.
-
Freud was the son of a Jewish merchant who had to move his whole family to Vienna because he couldn't get work. He, as a boy, had to watch his father be mocked and abused on the street for being Jewish... You develop a thick skin and you develop a certain kind of wit to defend yourself.
-
In fact, for all kinds of offenses - and, for no offenses - from murders to misdemeanors, men and women are put to death without judge or jury; so that, although the political excuse was no longer necessary, the wholesale murder of human beings went on just the same.
-
After making my stage debut aged nine as Macduff's small son in 'Macbeth,' I had played a number of parts, from 'Twelfth Night's Viola to 'The Merchant Of Venice's Portia'.
-
It is absolutely true in war, were other things equal, that numbers, whether men, shells, bombs, etc., would be supreme. Yet it is also absolutely true that other things are never equal and can never be equal.
-
In Finland we have equal political rights for women and men. We do not regard ourselves according to sex.
-
I think it's very important for both women and men to see women working in a variety of capacities.
-
Those who are politically apathetic can only survive if they are supported by people who are capable of taking action.
-
I don't think my principles change. I think the way in which you apply those principles to modern society changes.
-
The choice facing the nation is between two totally different ways of life. And what a prize we have to fight for: no less than the chance to banish from our land the dark, divisive clouds of Marxist socialism and bring together men and women from all walks of life who share a belief in freedom.
-
I knew I was going from the flock of Christ and had no resolution to return, hence serious reflections were uneasy to me, and youthful vanities and diversions were my greatest pleasure.
-
Like many young men in the South, he had trouble ruling out the possible. They are not like an immigrant's son in Passaic who desires to become a dentist and that is that. Southerners have trouble ruling out the possible. What happens to a... man to whom all things seem possible and every course of action open? Nothing of course.
