Morris West Quotes
In a longish life as a professional writer, I have heard a thousand masterpieces talked out over bars, restaurant tables and love seats. I have never seen one of them in print. Books must be written, not talked.
Quotes to Explore
-
We no longer dare to believe in beauty and we make of it a mere appearance in order the more easily to dispose of it.
-
Sometimes we all work so hard to overcome various things, and we are very cruel as a society and tough on people who we think aren't trying hard enough.
-
And all the zig-zags and lines in my hair? I used to do that myself. I just thought it was cool that you could actually do that with your hair.
-
I think a tragedy is something where the natural order of things is completely interrupted and doesn't right itself.
-
Y'all niggas ain't ILL...you're ILLogical.
-
The idea we have of prison is a scary place that also houses crazy people. And, to me, it was like, none of these guys were scary. They may have done things that are violent or scary, but these are not people that I feel nervous being around, and it feels like to me that we're wasting these men's lives in prison.
-
We're all equal before a wave.
-
Rugby is a game for barbarians played by gentlemen. Football is a game for gentlemen played by barbarians.
-
Wall Street is at best ambivalent. The size of the accounts is nothing big. How many Wall Street firms do you know that are running after people with $5,000 accounts?
-
If you want to control the world you need to control the oil. Therefore the destruction of Iraq is a prerequisite to controlling oil. That means the destruction of the Iraqi national identity, since the Iraqis are committed to their principles and rights according to international law and the U.N. charter.
-
The only thing you live to regret are the risks you didn't take
-
I believe that voting is the first act of building a community as well as building a country.
-
The sad side of a woman's life. We do as we like and we never realise what damage it is leading to.
-
Without struggle, there is no progress. There has to be struggle in your life. You have to grow in experience to control your ego. Cause, you know, an ego can be crushed, it can be killed, it can be smashed, but it comes back. It never dies. That's the thing about the ego: it never dies.
-
My true glory is not to have won 40 battles ... Waterloo will erase the memory of so many victories, ... But ... what will live forever, is my Civil Code.
-
You reach a certain point in your life where they things you do and say do make a difference.
-
It is when their age of passions is past that great men produce their masterpieces, just as it is after volcanic eruptions that the soil is most fertile.
-
Immigrants do more than help us win our wars, or set up cleaning shops or ethnic restaurants.
-
Don't wait for miracles. Your whole life is a miracle. Live it up and dare to leave an impact. There is no rehearsal.
-
In a longish life as a professional writer, I have heard a thousand masterpieces talked out over bars, restaurant tables and love seats. I have never seen one of them in print. Books must be written, not talked.
