Christina Stead Quotes

If misery spelled revolt, we should have had nothing but revolt from the beginning of time. On the contrary, it is quite rare.

Christina Stead

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• I don't think anything happens without the press, one way or the other. I think it's all done for it. You saw it start, really, with Martin Luther King in Birmingham. He did the bus thing. And I don't think anything that followed would have happened if the press hadn't paid attention.

  

  Garry Winogrand
  • Thinking
  • Done
  • Attention

• As a breeze ruffles the surface of a lake and distorts the images reflected therein, so also the chitta vrtti (fluctuations of mind) disturb the peace of the mind. The still waters of a lake reflect the beauty around it. When the mind is still, the beauty of the Self is seen reflected in it.

  

  Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
  • Mind
  • Peace
  • Water

• For years, I've had a hankering for the portrait of Benjamin Franklin by Joseph Duplessis. Franklin is credited with so many inventions: the postal system, lightning rods, the constitution. He was a rock star before there was such a thing.

  

  Jon Bon Jovi
  • Rock
  • Star
  • Constitution

• Be happy with who you are, where you are, for this is the way.

  

  Joe Sacco
  • Happy
  • Way

• Put your trust in God and just go calmly on your way.

  

  Norman Vincent Peale
  • God
  • Way
  • Trust

• I think it is owing to the good sense of the English that they have not painted better.

  

  William Hogarth
  • Thinking
  • Art
  • Owing

• Courage faces fear and thereby masters it.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Fear
  • Courage
  • Masters

• A votary of ahimsa must cultivate the habit of unremitting toil, sleepless vigilance, ceaseless self-control.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Habit
  • Self-Control
  • Cultivate

• Alexander, Caesar, Charlemagne, and I have founded empires. But on what did we rest the creations of our genius? Upon force. Jesus Christ founded his empire upon love; and at this hour millions of men would die for him.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Men
  • Force
  • Genius

• You will never learn what I am thinking. And those who boast most loudly that they know my thought, to such people I lie even more.

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • Thinking
  • Learn
  • Lie

• Success is less interesting than struggle. There is great pleasure in the effort.

  

  Willa Cather
  • Interesting
  • Effort
  • Struggle

• When chaste people need body or mind to resort to action or thought, they find steel in their muscles or knowledge in their intelligence. Theirs the diabolic vigor or the black magic of will power.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • People
  • Mind
  • Power

• Mathematics is often erroneously referred to as the science of common sense. Actually, it may transcend common sense and go beyond either imagination or intuition. It has become a very strange and perhaps frightening subject from the ordinary point of view, but anyone who penetrates into it will find a veritable fairyland, a fairyland which is strange, but makes sense, if not common sense.

  

  Edward Kasner
  • Imagination
  • Strange
  • Common

• There is no sin so profound, no despondency so low, no misery so abject, but the love of Christ is deeper.

  

  F. B. Meyer
  • Sin
  • Profound
  • Misery

• The urge to revolt is one of the essential dimensions of human nature.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Human Nature
  • Dimensions
  • Revolt

• Lovers re-create the world.

  

  Carter Heyward
  • World
  • Lovers

• People come to see beauty, and I dance to give it to them.

  

  Judith Jamison
  • Dance
  • Beauty
  • See

• If misery spelled revolt, we should have had nothing but revolt from the beginning of time. On the contrary, it is quite rare.

  

  Christina Stead
  • Misery
  • Revolt