Wilfrid Sheed Quotes
Saloons provide moments of genuine ecstasy - but only if your soul is at peace and the rest of your life bears contemplating. Otherwise, they are palaces of misery.
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Custom, that is before all law; Nature, that is above all art.
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I beat myself up the whole time because I'm striving for something I'll basically never achieve. I portray this image of confidence, of arrogance, and it's not really me. I'm never satisfied, and I'm never content. It means I'm a bit of a mess some of the time.
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Humans can make friends easily if they are open to it and are interested in other people.
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There's a very different kind of psychology going on in the fashion scene than in art. When artists connect to a system because they want to make a living, it's their own choice. In fashion, designers don't have that choice.
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I wouldn't record any song that I didn't like.
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The preachers commission is to declare the whole counsel of God; but the cross is the center of that counsel.
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I don't expect to be a ‘leader’ with this thing. I'd rather be a builder. I'd like to build a way for people doing good work to connect, to learn from each other, protect each other, and then I want to get out of their way.
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I'll let criticism spoil breakfast, but I don't let it affect my lunch.
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In some small field each child should attain, within the limited range of its experience and observation, the power to draw a justly limited inference from observed facts.
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Pity! Religion has so seldom found A skilful guide into poetic ground! The flowers would spring where'er she deign'd to stray And every muse attend her in her way.
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What makes us heroic?--Confronting simultaneously our supreme suffering and our supreme hope.
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If I seem to take part in politics, it is only because politics encircles us today like the coil of a snake from which one cannot get out, no matter how much one tries. I wish therefore to wrestle with the snake.
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If he's convicted, ... once all the appeals have been exhausted, the rules do allow for him to be executed within 30 days of that.
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Ahimsa was preached to man when he was in full vigor of life and able to look his adversaries straight in the face.
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The effect of the consolations of religion may be compared to that of a narcotic.
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Experience as much as you can and absorb a lot of reality. Otherwise, your writing will have the force of a Wiffle ball.
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As anyone who is gay will confirm, being that way is not something you become, it is a set of emotional and physical responses that just are.
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We are inclined to call things by the wrong names. We call prosperity 'happiness', and adversity 'misery' eventhough adversity is the school of wisdom and often the way to eternal happiness.
