Rebecca Wells Quotes
I have been missing the point. The point is not knowing another person, or learning to love another person. The point is simply this: how tender can we bear to be? What good manners can we show as we welcome ourselves and others into our hearts?
Quotes to Explore
-
But I'm the sort of person who, if certain structures topple, it could all go horribly wrong.
-
My manners, abominable at times, can be sweet.
-
The best effort of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.
-
I love watching great TV, whether it's to educate myself more on my craft or to just simply be entertained.
-
There was this song I was working on called 'Swing.' It was almost finished, but there was something missing, and I couldn't for the life of me figure it out. And then this little piece of information - this little tweet - came to the forefront of my mind.
-
I'm not a party person.
-
My mother was pragmatic, focused and extremely, exceedingly practical, and she was the ultimate self-determining person.
-
I'm not really the type of person who wears my heart on my sleeve. I keep everything inside.
-
The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-
Remember that failure is an event, not a person.
-
The work with which we embark on this first volume of a series of theological studies is a work with which the philosophical person does not begin, but rather concludes.
-
I am an Armani and a Dolce & Gabbana kind of a person.
-
I would love to continue in music, with writing... but I am not the kind of person who will hang around if I start to become irrelevant. If that happens, I will bow down gracefully, raise my kids, and have a garden. And I am going to let my hair go gray when I am older. I don't need to be blonde when I'm 60!
-
On the subject of literary genres, I've always felt that my response to poetry is inadequate. I'd love to be the kind of person that drifts off into the garden with a slim volume of Elizabethan verse or a sheaf of haikus, but my passion is story.
-
I'm definitely a glass-is-always-half-full, not half-empty, kind of person. Which is why I love living in America.
-
A disciplined person is one who follows the will of the one who gives the orders.
-
For a person who promised hope and civility in politics, Mr. Obama has shown a borderline obsessiveness in blaming Mr. Bush.
-
I am an honest person, transparent, that look citizens straight in their faces.
-
Maybe a day will come when we may have to just put on a pair of glasses and see sports events.
-
No impetus created by any movement whatever can be immediately consumed, but if it finds an object which has a great resistance it consumes itself in a reflex movement.
-
I love challenging myself, doing different things, and exploring different areas that I haven't been to or gone to before.
-
Since I was trying so hard to make books lead my life, I didn’t want to read them and then just put them back on the shelf and say, “good book,” as if I was patting a good dog. I wanted books to change me, and I wanted to write books that would change others.
-
Listening only to my instincts, I discovered superb things.
-
I have been missing the point. The point is not knowing another person, or learning to love another person. The point is simply this: how tender can we bear to be? What good manners can we show as we welcome ourselves and others into our hearts?
