William Stafford Quotes

The greatest ownership of all is to glance around and understand.

William Stafford

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• When you were a kid, a day was a long time and a year was a long time.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Time
  • Long
  • Day

• I think of the prisoners on 'Orange Is the New Black,' a lot of times, as uplifting.

  

  Samira Wiley
  • Think
  • Black
  • Uplifting

• I want to go skydiving. I'd love to go to the Galapagos. Nature still excites me.

  

  Wayne Knight
  • Love
  • Nature
  • Excites

• Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin, among the members of a society.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Society
  • Group
  • Selfishness

• It's unarguable that the right shoes can really add elegance to an outfit and to the person who's wearing them. Take a pair of high heels, for instance. Suddenly, you're looking taller, shoulders back, body curved.

  

  Kareena Kapoor Khan
  • High
  • Body
  • Shoes

• I'm always sad to leave paradise, but I leave behind the hopes of coming again soon.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Always
  • Sad
  • Paradise

• It isn't always the middle-aged who refuse to listen, who will not even try to understand another point of view. One boy would not get it through his head that for all adults God is not an old man in a white beard sitting on a cloud. As far as this boy was concerned, this old gentleman was the adult's god, and therefore he did not believe in God.

  

  Madeleine L'Engle
  • God
  • Believe
  • Boy

• I went to multiple doctors to make sure that I'm taking the right anti-depression medication and make sure that my blood pressure's okay. I found out that my blood pressure wasn't okay and that I had a fatty liver. All these health risks were coming up.

  

  Ashley Nell Tipton
  • Up
  • Health
  • Depression

• It's okay to dream big.

  

  Jason Day
  • Dream

• I've never had WiFi at home. I'm too easily distracted, and YouTube is too tempting.

  

  Dave Eggers
  • Home

• Bruce was famous, but not 'Elvis famous.' He was confident and lighthearted. Comfortable in his own skin. Or so it seemed.

  

  Linda Thompson
  • Famous

• I'm not a huge fan of prequels and sequels and the cynical rush to make money on the back of books by other writers who are now dead.

  

  Anthony Horowitz
  • Money

• If it hadn't been for Johnny Cash, I'd probably have been a Nashville songwriter because that's what I had done for almost five years.

  

  Kris Kristofferson
  • Done

• Who cares about that stuff? This is America, not Jerusalem. I'm an American. Let Harry be a Jew.

  

  Arnold Rothstein
  • American
  • America

• I'm sometimes critical about other artists who come out with something different until maybe I hear the music. If the music is there, then they did their job, and I'll enjoy the CD.

  

  Brian Austin Green
  • Music
  • Different
  • Job

• Let us reform our schools, and we shall find little reform needed in our prisons.

  

  John Ruskin

• I'm hardly a known name, but I don't want to go, like, 'Oh, people call me a storyteller comedian, let me just go up and just talk about my day.' I don't want that to happen.

  

  Kyle Kinane
  • People
  • Up

• For me, tribalism and religion are basically the big reasons we're in trouble. Patriotism, tribalism, and religion.

  

  George A. Romero

• They will never outlaw all of your guns at once. But every 'reasonable' control they can impose without your resistance gives them one more bit of leverage to make gun ownership for you and your children and your grandchildren as difficult as possible.

  

  Dave Kopel
  • Children
  • Gun
  • Grandchildren

• As you recover, you will find yourself letting go of many of your negative beliefs. You will discover that many of the so-called truths you were raised with and forced to believe are not truths at all. With this perspective, you will come to see, for example, that the names you were called as a child are simply not true. You are not ‘stupid,’ ‘lazy,’ ‘ugly,’ or a ‘liar’. You can discover just who you really are. You can let go of your pretenses and masks and discover who the real person is underneath.

  

  Beverly Engel
  • Believe
  • Child
  • Discover

• I didn't feel like I belonged with my mom. And I didn't feel like I belonged with my dad. Since they were separated, I kind of felt like I didn't belong anywhere. So my grandparents gave me that stability, gave me the feeling like I had something and I came from some place.

  

  Willie Herron
  • Feelings
  • Stability
  • Grandparent

• This is why I don't like to argue with people. You say things you don't mean. Or, you kind of mean them, but the way you say it sounds arrogant and hurtful.

  

  Ellen Wittlinger
  • Argue
  • Hurtful
  • Don't Mean

• The greatest ownership of all is to glance around and understand.

  

  William Stafford
  • Ownership
  • Glances