Walker Percy Quotes
The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.
Quotes to Explore
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We must continue building in all corners of the Land of Israel, with determination and without being confused.
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The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
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Always remember that better days are ahead - if not in this life, in the next.
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I've got a theory that if you give 100% all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end.
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I like to go to my simple cottage by the ocean or, really, any beach!
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When I was in high school, I was really into string theory and superstring theory and read 'Scientific American.' It's fascinating.
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It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.
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The last thing I wanted was to be with someone who's the same age as me and wanted the limelight, wanted the attention. There's lots of girls out there who do.
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It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
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The poorer people and criminals of Mexico who are not very religious but not quite atheists, either, worship Saint Death.
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I've shared the fate of many working mothers; I felt guilty like them.
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You just can't control your art in the future.
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Escapism makes a lot of intuitive sense - whisk people away from their cares with stories of a better life.
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I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.
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By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.
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Writing for children, you do bear a responsibility to not include overt or graphic adult content that they are not ready for and don't need, or to address adult concepts or themes from an oblique angle or a child's limited viewpoint, with appropriate context, without being graphic or distressing.
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Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.
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I feel I'm a strange mixture of insecurity and strength. Most of us, probably most people. I'm transferring that same concept to the people I photograph.
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The race question is subsidiary to the class question in politics, and to think of imperialism in terms of race is disastrous. But to neglect the racial factor as merely incidental is an error only less grave than to make it fundamental.
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A child who does not play is not a child, but the man who doesn't play has lost forever the child who lived in him and who he will miss terribly.
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It sounds maybe a little old fashioned, but the parts I want to play and I do play, you don't want to inject too much of your own personality. What you sacrifice then is a slight mystery.
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Der Zufall ist die in Schleier gehüllte Notwendigkeit.
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Go as far as you can see; when you get there, you'll be able to see farther.
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The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.
