Wallace Stegner Quotes

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• To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.

  

  Tacitus
  • May
  • Show
  • Resentment

• When a culture has fallen totally away from spiritual pursuits into materialism, one must begin by demonstrating they are each a soul, not a material animal.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
  • Soul
  • Culture
  • Spiritual

• On the evidence I have on hand at home, social media isn't killing our children. It isn't killing families, either, because the constant long bloody phone calls that parents complained to their teenagers about in decades past are gone.

  

  Warren Ellis
  • Long
  • Children
  • Home

• Of all the hazards, fear is the worst.

  

  Sam Snead
  • Fear
  • Worst
  • Hazards

• That is why, as soon as I felt a real attraction for my first passion which was the motorcycle, and in spite of the danger it could represent, they encouraged me.

  

  Jacky Ickx
  • Passion
  • Danger
  • Attraction

• I'm not actually even a very good singer. I'm not.

  

  Halsey
  • Good
  • Very
  • Singer

• I guess I have a certain willingness for audacity.

  

  Sally Mann
  • Guess
  • Willingness
  • Audacity

• The world needs new leadership, but the new leadership is about working together.

  

  Jack Ma
  • World
  • Together
  • Leadership

• Companies that are willing to share, to withhold in order to further the growth of the company, willing to try to get a better atmosphere through a demonstration of democratic principles, fairness and cooperation, a better product, those will win in the end.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Growth
  • End
  • Win

• I do not live in the world of sobriety.

  

  Oliver Reed
  • World
  • Live
  • Sobriety

• I was shot in the wrist when I was a kid. Deliberately.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Kid
  • Shot
  • Wrist

• I want to be free... free to develop my art.

  

  Natalia Makarova
  • Art
  • Want
  • Free

• I think it is not necessary at this time to put forth a grand vision such as an East Asian Community. What we must do before that is create scenarios for Japan's response in case of a serious territorial incident.

  

  Yoshihiko Noda
  • Time
  • Community
  • Serious

• I don't know how to cook, but I do know how to bake.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Know
  • Cook
  • How

• The science of operations, as derived from mathematics more especially, is a science of itself, and has its own abstract truth and value.

  

  Ada Lovelace
  • Truth
  • Science
  • Value

• God blessed me with two unbelievable parents, and I am just like both of them. I have the smile and charisma of my mother and the big heart of my mom, because she wants to save the world and help the world, so I am just like her.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • World
  • God
  • Heart

• Usually if I find a film that's challenging, that I'm intrigued by, I want to watch it again knowing what the ending is. I found that with something like 'The Godfather Part II.' I think it took me three watches to fully experience it in the way it was intended.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Experience
  • Watches
  • Ending

• I am not a methodical singer. I don't follow any process or rules; what I follow is just my heart - whatever I experience, I just write and then compose it.

  

  Kailash Kher
  • Heart
  • Process
  • Rules

• Acting is not my favourite thing. I don't like wearing costumes and wigs.

  

  Victoria Wood
  • Like
  • Acting
  • Favourite

• I secretly wanted to act. I also wanted be a toy designer and make puppets.

  

  Kate Micucci
  • Act
  • Puppets
  • Toy

• I have a very dear friend, a great painter, called me up very upset, the work wasn’t going well… He asked me to come to his studio -- which I did -- I looked around at the work, dozens of sketches, drawings, large pictures, and I was very close to his work, intensely involved with his work, and he asked me, ‘What’s wrong?’ And I said, ‘Simple – it’s a loss of nerve.

  

  Morton Feldman
  • Said
  • Involved
  • Painter

• The Jews are just a very aggressive and abrasive and obnoxious personality.

  

  Richard M. Nixon
  • Personality
  • Obnoxious

• It's an extraordinary commentary on what the Internet can do, ... opening the crossroads around the world for communication between all people.

  

  B. R. Hayden
  • People
  • World
  • Communication

• The meeting of writer and reader is an intimate act, and it properly takes place in private.

  

  Wallace Stegner
  • Writer
  • Act
  • Reader