Barbara Wood Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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When men can no longer be theists, they must, if they are civilized, become humanists.
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Countries have made impressive pledges to cut carbon pollution, but we have to ensure these promises become actions.
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The wealthiest Americans often live as though they and their children had nothing to gain from investments in education, infrastructure, clean-energy, and scientific research.
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Fashion is a completely international business.
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I am in a charity out there to stop violence against women.
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All emotion is involuntary when genuine.
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As I always said, if people wanted to know who James Brown is, all they have to do is listen to my music.
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This is a show I've always wanted to do. I wanted to do this 15 years ago. We lived in San Diego and my church group there was going to get to do it and I had everything ready to go, but they didn't get the rights. They had to change everything at the last minute, and I've been holding on to the script and director's book since then.
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All my pictures are a kind of revision of my original idea. This is surely very different from the way in which Japanese or Chinese artists work: their themes are pre-ordained, whereas mine are invented at will.
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Keep your mind open to change all the time. Welcome it. Court it. It is only by examining and reexamining your opinions and ideas that you can progress.
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I'm a dweller of the threshold and I'm waiting at the door, and I'm standing in the darkness, I don't want to wait no more.
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No more soul-destroying doctrine could well be devised than the doctrine that sinners can regenerate themselves, and repent and believe just when they please.
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All men, well interrogated, answer well.
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Charity creates a multitude of sins.
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We can choose to humble ourselves by confessing and forsaking our sins and being born of God.
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Grieve not that I die young. Is it not well to pass away ere life hath lost its brightness?
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I myself hate that old Hemingwayesque paradigm of the writer as prizefighter and I have tried hard to create an alternate one for myself. When Anne Sexton admonished me, "We are all writing God's poem," I took it to mean there should be no competition between writers because we are all involved in a common project, a common prayer. But to Gore's and Norman's generation, particularly those male writers who served in the second world war, the prizefighter paradigm remains.
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On YouTube you can still watch the documentary Let There Be Light, by the great Hollywood director John Huston, which shows men undergoing hypnosis to treat “war neurosis.
