Christina Stead Quotes

They were all eccentric, touched, ill-intentioned, ignorant, superstitious, avaricious, or full members of nitwitry.

Christina Stead

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• I tried to take seriously the idea that if you tortured language you might arrive at some new truth. Later it became clear to me that I was retreading ground by fighting the literary battles of the 1950s and 1960s, and that I was actually a bit bored by some of the books I professed to love.

  

  Hari Kunzru
  • Love
  • Truth
  • Fighting

• I was excited to play Lil' Kim and I wanted to do the role justice. I worked really hard on that role, whether it was performing the rhymes, studying the dialect, her swagger and her stage performances. I wanted people to see my range and stretch my wings as an actress.

  

  Naturi Naughton 3LW
  • People
  • Justice
  • Studying

• People fall in private, long before they fall in public. The tree falls with a great crash, but the secret decay which accounts for it, is often not discovered until it is down on the ground.

  

  J. C. Ryle
  • People
  • Great
  • Long

• Like us many have spoken over this spring, but they were gone in the twinkling of an eye.

  

  Zahīr ud-Dīn Muhammad
  • Wisdom
  • Spring
  • Islamic

• The first half of high school, I had a girlfriend, and then the second half I got to know these guys who would just get stoned and jam. I had struck the goth thing by then, but I still thought of myself as Ian Curtis or something.

  

  Ariel Pink
  • School
  • High
  • Girlfriend

• God's plan is to make much of the man, far more of him than of anything else. Men are God's method. The Church is looking for better methods; God is looking for better men.

  

  Edward McKendree Bounds
  • God
  • Men
  • Church

• However, the eleventh-hour nature of these changes left us frustrated and angry — because they prevent us from telling the best stories we can. So, after a lot of soul-searching, we’ve decided to leave the book after Issue 26.

  

  J. H. Williams III
  • Book
  • Nature
  • Soul

• I don't know what to say. Maybe the next game we do the same thing. Maybe we'll turn it on in the second half. Everybody has to function at the same time.

  

  C. Vivian Stringer
  • Game
  • Know
  • Function

• I think there's a stigma to some degree about the outer boroughs and Jersey, and whether their stories are worth telling.

  

  Vincent Piazza
  • Thinking
  • Stories
  • Degrees

• I think you can't do any action without in some way paying homage to John Woo. He's the guy who just invented that sort of next level of poetic nasty action.

  

  Will Ferrell
  • Thinking
  • Guy
  • Action

• The Jews should not be allowed to keep what they have obtained from others by usury; it were best that they were compelled to worked so that they could earn their living instead of doing nothing but becoming avaricious.

  

  Thomas Aquinas
  • Keep
  • Jews
  • Avaricious

• I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think.

  

  Rumi
  • Think
  • Sing
  • Worrying

• The tragedy is not that nonviolence did not work against the Nazis, but that it was so seldom utilized... The churches as a whole were too docile or anti-semitic, and too ignorant of the nonviolent message of the Gospel, to act effectively to resist the Nazis or act in solidarity with the Jews.

  

  Walter Wink
  • Tragedy
  • Ignorant
  • Nonviolence

• If people continue to feel like Democrats are looking after poor folks and Republicans are looking after rich folks and nobody is looking after me, then we don't get a lot of stuff done. And the trend lines evidence the fact that folks have gotten squeezed. And obviously, 2007, 2008 really ripped open for people how vulnerable they were.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Done
  • Me

• They were all eccentric, touched, ill-intentioned, ignorant, superstitious, avaricious, or full members of nitwitry.

  

  Christina Stead
  • Ignorant
  • They
  • Eccentric