Carolyn Wells Quotes

To take pride in a library kills it. Then, its motive power shifts over to the critical if admiring visitor, and apologies are necessary and acceptable and the fat is in the fire.

Carolyn Wells

• Pride
• Library
• Apology
• Critical
• Motive
• Admiring

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• Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.

  

  Abraham Joshua Heschel
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  • Wonder
  • Doubt

• God made a mistake with me. I'm actually black, trapped in a white body.

  

  Watkin Tudor Jones
  • God
  • Black
  • Mistake

• If you imagine writing 1,000 words a day, which most journalists do, that would be a very long book a year. I don't manage nearly that... but I have published slightly too much recently.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Long
  • Writing
  • Book

• I have a roof over my head. I had a breakfast, and a lot of people in the world can't say that. I'm not going to complain about being interviewed.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • People
  • World
  • Breakfast

• Some have suffered death to make it possible for us to have the scriptures today. Historically, the scriptures in the Bible were reserved for the clergy, with the reading of them by others being denounced. At times, laws even prohibited the public or private reading of them.

  

  L. Lionel Kendrick
  • Today
  • Death
  • Reading

• I'm worried about the future of America insofar as our academically most promising students are being funneled through the cookie-cutter Ivy League and other elite schools and emerging with this callow anti-American, anti-military cast to their thinking.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Thinking
  • American
  • America

• A first kiss is hard to fake on screen. It's tempting to practice before you shoot, but why blow that natural awkwardness on a rehearsal? There's something so beautiful about it that can't be faked.

  

  Maggie Grace
  • Why
  • Beautiful
  • Practice

• I'm a fixer, unfortunately. I'm like, 'Oh, I can fix you.' But it's not just guys I'm dating anymore. It's this entire legion of young girls who tell me they need me to maintain any sort of sanity or peace.

  

  Halsey
  • Guys
  • Girls
  • Sanity

• English football is so physical and fast that when you see a space, you have to go into it with all your speed.

  

  Yaya Toure
  • Space
  • Football
  • English

• I've already fought my share. God gave me a rich, eventful career, and I thank God for everything, but I'm done fighting.

  

  Fedor Emelianenko
  • God
  • Done
  • Career

• Government should stand aside and let the business community prosper instead of imposing new regulations that will only stifle growth and limit access to capital.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Business
  • Community
  • Growth

• Being a writer - even a best-selling one - is usually not anywhere near as public as being a movie star, at least not when I'm out in 'real life' like this. Not that I don't use what fame I have, every chance I get, to help sell more books.

  

  Nancy Pickard
  • Life
  • Real
  • Movie

• There is not a liberal America and a conservative America - there is the United States of America. There is not a black America and a white America and latino America and asian America - there's the United States of America.

  

  Barack Obama
  • America
  • Black
  • Latino

• I don't really like being with people my own age for long periods, because all we talk about is our decrepitude, how the world is changing for the worse even though it isn't.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • People
  • World
  • Long

• Alle zweckmäßigen Lebenserscheinungen wie ihre Zweckmäßigkeit überhaupt sind letzten Endes zweckmäßig nicht für das Leben, sondern für den Ausdruck seines Wesens, für die Darstellung seiner Bedeutung.

  

  Walter Benjamin
  • Die

• We Americans choose not to understand the world on terms other than our own.

  

  Ralph Peters
  • World

• If you speak English, you speak at least a part of more than a hundred languages.

  

  Anu Garg
  • English

• Bus driver, bus driver, the sirens have gone,The bombs may come down, but the buses go on;Bus driver, I know you won't think me a snobIf I whisper: 'Bus driver, I don't want your job'.

  

  A. P. Herbert
  • May
  • Job

• You’re in total isolation. And you don’t know how long you’re going to be there, but you truly believe they can do anything to you. There’s no way to even question it. You’re not protected by anything. Why am I here? Your mind is very uncertain of time. You become like mad. It’s very hard for anyone. Even for people who have strong beliefs.

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • People
  • Time
  • Believe

• I love Harry Potter. I've read all the books several times.

  

  Lorelei Linklater

• LOTTERY TICKET: a voluntary tax paid by people who are extremely bad at math.

  

  Roy H. Williams
  • Bad
  • Math
  • Tax

• It's good to be proud of your heritage and your culture, but pride can be perverted.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Good
  • Culture
  • Proud

• I am not as these are, the poet saithIn youth's pride, and the painter, among menAt bay, where never pencil comes nor pem

  

  Dante Gabriel Rossetti
  • Pride

• To take pride in a library kills it. Then, its motive power shifts over to the critical if admiring visitor, and apologies are necessary and acceptable and the fat is in the fire.

  

  Carolyn Wells
  • Pride
  • Library
  • Apology