Alexander Whyte Quotes

You’re not likely to err by practicing too much of the cross.

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• Before a man speaks it is always safe to assume that he is a fool. After he speaks, it is seldom necessary to assume it.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Man
  • Always
  • Fool

• And you know, art as commerce, doesn't really make too much sense, they don't go together.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Art
  • Together
  • Know

• He who hath bent him o'er the deadEre the first day of death is fled,-The first dark day of nothingness,The last of danger and distress,Before decay's effacing fingersHave swept the lines where beauty lingers.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Death
  • Dark

• True poetry is a function of awakening. It awakens us, but it must retain the memory of previous dreams.

  

  Gaston Bachelard
  • True
  • Poetry
  • Dreams

• When will women begin to have the first glimmer that above all other loyalties is the loyalty toTruth, i.e., to yourself, that husband, children, friends and countryare as nothing to that.

  

  Alice James
  • Women
  • Children
  • Truth

• I had lived in France before graduate school, but because of Spain, I had a lot of the characters go and spend a good bit of time in Spain.

  

  Lily King
  • Time
  • Good
  • School

• You can’t be a progressive and be opposed to pension reform.

  

  Gina Raimondo
  • Progressive
  • Opposed
  • Pension Reform

• The old man looked at him with his sun-burned, confident loving eyes.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Men
  • Man
  • Eye

• I've tried to reduce profanity but I reduced so much profanity when writing the book that I'm afraid not much could come out. Perhaps we will have to consider it simply as a profane book and hope that the next book will be less profane or perhaps more sacred.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Profanity

• I can control my passions and emotions if I can understand their nature.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Control
  • Emotions
  • Passions

• Love has sold more songs than you've had hot dinners.

  

  Keith Richards The Rolling Stones
  • Love
  • Songs
  • Had

• But you have to give your whole life to a cello. When I realized that, I went back to the guitar and just turned the volume up a bit louder.

  

  Ritchie Blackmore Blackmore's Night
  • Giving
  • Guitar
  • Volume

• The ass bears the load, but not the overload.

  

  Miguel de Cervantes
  • Ass
  • Load
  • Overload

• My melancholy is the most faithful sweetheart I have had.

  

  Soren Kierkegaard
  • Melancholy
  • Sweetheart

• People talk about the highway of life, but I think that’s crap. Highways are nice and paved, and they have signs telling you which way to go. Life isn’t like that at all. There are days when great things happen and everything is beautiful and perfect, and then, just like that, everything can go straight to hell. It’s like getting drunk. At first it feels kinda nice and all relaxed. And all of a sudden the room is spinning and you are throwing up, and, well, maybe life is a little like that.

  

  Benjamin Alire Saenz
  • Life
  • Drunk
  • Sings

• The more diverse your team, the better you'll be at identifying what a diversity of users perceive as problems.

  

  David Livermore
  • Team
  • Diversity
  • Perceive

• After I recovered from 'Lioness', I wanted to write something about animals because I really like mythical creatures, especially dragons. At 12, I was one of those semi-recluses who did better with animals than people. Out of that, came the character, Daine, who could communicate with animals.

  

  Tamora Pierce
  • People
  • Character
  • Better

• Some campaigns are not worth waging if you can't win; others have to be fought on grounds of principle regardless of the chances for success.

  

  Patricia Ireland
  • Success
  • Chance
  • Win

• The cross is the only ladder high enough to touch Heaven's threshold.

  

  George Dana Boardman Pepper
  • Heaven
  • Touch
  • Cross

• You’re not likely to err by practicing too much of the cross.

  

  Alexander Whyte
  • Cross
  • Practicing
  • Err