Wallace Stegner Quotes

Values, both those that we approve and those that we don't, have roots as deep as creosote rings, and live as long and grow as slowly.

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• The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Up
  • May
  • Theory

• All my books are optimistic!

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Books
  • Optimistic

• I found it peculiar that those who wanted to take military action could - with 100 per cent certainty - know that the weapons existed and turn out to have zero knowledge of where they were.

  

  Hans Blix
  • Knowledge
  • Know
  • Action

• You have to understand your own personal DNA. Don't do things because I do them or Steve Jobs or Mark Cuban tried it. You need to know your personal brand and stay true to it.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • True
  • Know
  • Brand

• What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.

  

  Igor Stravinsky
  • Real
  • Artist
  • Prestige

• But I was losing so much bone density that I would have been in grave danger. And I mean grave danger. If I had let it go just a few more years I could have broken my hip or spine just picking up my granddaughter.

  

  Sally Field
  • Up
  • Years
  • Broken

• One of the peculiar sins of the twentieth century which we've developed to a very high level is the sin of credulity. It has been said that when human beings stop believing in God they believe in nothing. The truth is much worse: they believe in anything.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • God
  • Believe
  • Truth

• I do films that I like. I have done comedy, romance, everything, and I always like to do it differently from the previous ones.

  

  Abhishek Bachchan
  • Done
  • Comedy
  • Always

• And the big question for the West, of course, and to the Europeans is, what other countries, which were formerly part of the Soviet bloc, should be incorporated into western institutions?

  

  Samuel P. Huntington
  • Question
  • Big
  • Soviet

• One of the strengths of Adani is that, because we are controlling mines, ships, ports and logistics, we are the cheapest solution provider for end users.

  

  Gautam Adani
  • End
  • Solution
  • Ships

• I have never written for an audience. On the other hand I do not write merely to please myself.

  

  Patrick O'Brian
  • Hand
  • Myself
  • Write

• The Premier League is very difficult football and very different to when you play in Europe, but the player has to have experience to adapt, and this is the key point.

  

  Fernando Torres
  • Different
  • Experience
  • Football

• It was a scene I was really looking forward to, and one that I embraced, and when we were filming it, George got closer and closer and closer with that camera - he was practically up my nose for the final shot. So I knew it was a moment that I had to do my best to get right.

  

  Ian McDiarmid
  • Up
  • Best
  • Looking Forward

• I usually meditate twice a day: Transcendental Meditation.

  

  Vanessa Bayer
  • Day
  • Meditation
  • Twice

• Basically, I'm a free spirit. I'm kind of an Everywoman.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • Free
  • Kind
  • Free Spirit

• I love Karlie Kloss. I want to bake cookies with her!

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Want
  • Cookies
  • Bake

• You know those award shows. The cliche is that it's an honor just to be nominated, but that happens to be true. Whoever wins it in the end, I don't know, sometimes it feels arbitrary. Sometimes it feels like it's deserving.

  

  Hank Azaria
  • True
  • End
  • Honor

• Big stories need human stakes.

  

  Aaron Swartz
  • Human
  • Need
  • Big

• Man's value before God is estimated by the dispositions of his heart, its uprightness, its good will, its charity, and not by keenness of intellect or extent of knowledge.

  

  Anne Catherine Emmerich
  • Heart
  • Value
  • Uprightness

• They agreed to have their volunteers and vendors and everyone park off site and they were going to provide a shuttle to bring them back and forth.

  

  Joe Davis
  • Volunteers
  • Shuttle
  • Vendors

• The censor is always quick to justify his function in terms that are protective of society. But the First Amendment, written in terms that are absolute, deprives the States of any power to pass on the value, the propriety, or the morality of a particular expression.

  

  William O. Douglas
  • Values
  • Term
  • Morality

• Values, both those that we approve and those that we don't, have roots as deep as creosote rings, and live as long and grow as slowly.

  

  Wallace Stegner
  • Values
  • Rings
  • Creosote