William Faulkner Quotes
You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm a big believer in the idea that while we are the sum of our tears, we are also the product of our choices in how we deal with those tears.
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Failure is a part of success.
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Well, part of it is a longstanding belief - it's been in our education establishment at least since the 1930s - that somehow children should be allowed to discover knowledge for themselves, that they should construct their own knowledge. This has surfaced most recently in connection with mathematics instruction, where the idea is that they need to discover how to add for themselves. Rather than being taught how to add, they should construct this knowledge on their own.
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To resolve this issue will require Iran to come to the table and discuss in a clear and forthright way how to prove to the international community that the intentions of their nuclear program are peaceful. [...] The question is going to be whether in these discussions they show themselves moving clearly in that direction.
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Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners.
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Nowhere have women been more excluded from decision-making than in the military and foreign affairs. When it comes to the military and questions of nuclear disarmament, the gender gap becomes the gender gulf.
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Together we hope to establish a standard of Bravery and Kindness, as well as a community worldwide that protects and nurtures others in the face of bullying and abandonment.
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As long as you are curious, you defeat age.
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Private opinion is weak, but public opinion is almost omnipotent.
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One thing that really drew me to him the first time I saw him play was his leadership ability within the team.
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Well I've had a happy life.
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Can an ass be tragic?--To perish under a burden that one can neither bear nor cast off? The case of the philosopher.
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The self-same atoms which, chaotically dispersed, made the nebula, now, jammed and temporarily caught in peculiar positions, form our brains; and the 'evolution' of brains, if understood, would be simply the account of how the atoms came to be so caught and jammed.
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It is difficult to understand precisely what the state hopes to achieve by promoting the creation and perpetuation of a subclass of illiterates within our boundaries, surely adding to the problems and costs of unemployment, welfare and crime.
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If you want to endure life, prepare yourself for death.
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Behold me waiting—waiting for the knife.... The thick, sweet mystery of chloroform, The drunken dark, the little death-in-life.... [F]ace to face with chance, I shrink a little: My hopes are strong, my will is something weak. ...I am ready But, gentlemen my porters, life is brittle: You carry Cæsar and his fortunes—steady!
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Unless it is cured sometimes greediness grows. Where it finally stops, alas, nobody knows.
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You want to make people relaxed.
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Men strengthen each other in their faults. Those who are alike associate together, repeat the things which all believe, defend and stimulate their common faults of disposition, and each one receives from the others a reflection of his own egotism.
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Bourgeois morality is largely a system of making cheap virtues a cloak for expensive vices.
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You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.
