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

• Count your blessings. They were given to you for a reason.

  

  Katrina Mayer
  • Reason
  • Give
  • Blessings

• Was it worth the wait, or what? ... It's pretty sweet right now.

  

  Craig Biggio
  • Worth
  • Wait
  • Right Now

• Whether each of the faithful has a particular angel assigned him for his defence, I cannot venture certainly to affirm... not one angel only has the care of every one of us, but that they all with one consent watch for our salvation.

  

  John Calvin
  • Angel
  • Salvation
  • Faithful

• I think crime is a huge issue for people. If you were living in the poorest state, and you've got drug dealers at the end of the street, and your life's in misery, and you're afraid of your kids going out the door. I mean, the job of progressive politicians is to do something about that.

  

  Tony Blair
  • Kids
  • Mean
  • Drug

• Live or die, sink or swim.

  

  George Peele
  • Live
  • Die

• 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