Colin Wilson Quotes

Could it be that sexual perversion and romanticism sprang from the same longing for distant horizons?

Colin Wilson

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• It is with your aid, as the people, that I think we shall be able to preserve - not the country, for the country will preserve itself, but the institutions of the country - those institutions which have made us free, intelligent and happy - the most free, the most intelligent, and the happiest people on the globe.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • People
  • Country
  • Happy

• I paint for the sheer joy of painting. I have never sold any of my paintings. I'd rather give them to people for free.

  

  Takeshi Kitano
  • People
  • Free
  • Joy

• The most important thing that everybody can do, aside from building and keeping your network strong, is make good choices about your health.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Good
  • Important
  • Strong

• It's not like I ever sat in my room and said I was going to start a media company and become an editor in chief. It was never my dream. It was something that just happened.

  

  Imran Amed
  • Dream
  • Start
  • Media

• I think R. Kelly's range is so vast and broad that in order to stimulate himself creatively as an artist, he has to step so, so far outside the box, or else he feels like he's not challenging himself.

  

  T.I.
  • Think
  • Artist
  • Step

• I like power and I like to use it.

  

  Sam Rayburn
  • Power
  • Like
  • Use

• Today it is becoming increasingly apparent to thoughtful Americans that we cannot fight the forces and ideas of imperialism abroad and maintain any form of imperialism at home. The war has done this to our thinking.

  

  Wendell Willkie
  • Thinking
  • Done
  • Home

• Happiness quantification sounds a bit wishy-washy, sure, and through a series of carefully administered surveys across the globe, economists and psychologists have certainly confronted a fair number of sticky issues around how to measure, and even define, happiness.

  

  Adam Davidson
  • Happiness
  • Fair
  • Economists

• My real dream is to have a whole, like, buy a whole piece of land. Imagine, like, a long driveway. Like, a cul de sac-type street, with maybe, like, seven houses. Me be right here. Have my mom be able to be right here. My brother over here. My girl's grandmother and family right here. Friends over there. That's my real dream.

  

  J. Cole
  • Family
  • Friends
  • Dream

• The power structures in fashion used to be limited to western Europe and the States. That's changing.

  

  Imran Amed
  • Power
  • Fashion
  • Changing

• Now, guitar was pretty cool. Everybody knew something on the guitar. So I wanted to play guitar, but I told my dad if he wanted me to keep studying something, I'd like to study piano.

  

  Jackson Browne
  • Pretty
  • Dad
  • Cool

• It doesn't much concern me if Tiger plays in the tournament or no.

  

  Vijay Singh
  • Concern
  • Plays
  • Tournament

• If we didn't have the rest of the world growing, the United States economy would be in much worse shape than it is today.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • World
  • Today
  • Growing

• If you read back in the Bible, the letter of the apostle Paul to the church of Thessalonia, he said that in the latter days before the end of the age that the Earth would be caught up in what he called the birth pangs of a new order.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Up
  • Age
  • Earth

• A conscientious man would be cautious how he dealt in blood.

  

  Edmund Burke

• Clean, quick, and easy as lying. We know how it ends practically before it starts. That’s why stories appeal to us. They give us the clarity and simplicity our real lives lack.

  

  Patrick Rothfuss
  • Real
  • Why
  • Simplicity

• Diamonds are supposed to be a girl's best friend but it's impossible to know for sure where they have come from so I find it is safer just to avoid them altogether.

  

  Leona Lewis
  • Girl
  • Friend

• My mother didn’t try to stab my father until I was six.

  

  Alan Alda
  • Mother
  • Father

• Those who consume animals not only harm those animals and endanger themselves, but they also threaten the well-being of other humans who currently or will later inhabit the planet. ... It is time for humans to remove their heads from the sand and recognize the risk to themselves that can arise from their maltreatment of other species.

  

  Michael Greger
  • Humans
  • Animals
  • Planet

• Very often, the judgments by ordinary citizens may be better than those by professional economists, being more rooted in reality and less narrowly focused.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • May
  • Reality
  • Professional

• The way I look at it, Mark McCain could have grown up to lead dance bands in the 1920s and '30s. As a young man who sang and played the guitar in two episodes, he might have made his way to Los Angeles, where there was lots of work for musicians in the early 1900s. By 1931, when he would have been the same age that I am now, he might have been leading his own band. I like to think he would have.

  

  Johnny Crawford
  • Up
  • Work
  • Age

• It ought to be a criminal offence for women to dye their hair. Especially red. What the devil do women do that sort of thing for?

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Women
  • Hair
  • Red

• Could it be that sexual perversion and romanticism sprang from the same longing for distant horizons?

  

  Colin Wilson