D.E. Stevenson Quotes

To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.

Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.

Newspaper editors are men who separate the wheat from the chaff, and then print the chaff.

You must suffer me to go my own dark way.

The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.

We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the present.

Some places speak distinctly. Certain dark gardens cry aloud for a murder; certain old houses demand to be haunted; certain coasts are set apart for shipwreck.

I definitely think we should not serve alcoholic beverages at the lunch break.

I wanted my children to have the same exposure to the water I had. My strongest memories of Northeast Harbor are going in a small Whaler with my dad, looking for osprey

I like people who are enthused about things they do, like travel, sports, work. I like being with people who have things they're excited about.

We can only know others by ourselves.

I sat in the sun on a bench; the animal within me licking the chops of memory; the spiritual side a little drowsed, promising subsequent penitence, but not yet moved to begin.

If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it they are wrong.

and he began to understand what a wild game we play in life; he began to understand that a thing once done cannot be undone nor changed by saying "I am sorry!

I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.

So long as we love we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I would almost say that we are indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.

Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.

Sing a song of seasons; something bright in all, flowers in the summer, fires in the fall.

I travel not to go anywhere, but to go.

We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.

I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.

Marriage is like life - it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.

Every man has a sane spot somewhere.

There's no friend like someone who has known you since you were five.

Fear is the strong passion; it is with fear that you must trifle, if you wish to taste the intensest joys of living.

Accuracy to a newspaper is what virtue is to a lady; but a newspaper can always print a retraction.

If this is death, it is easier than life.

Some of us worship in churches, some in synagogues, some on golf courses...

A wise man who stands firm is a statesman, a foolish man who stands firm is a catastrophe.

If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is no barking dog to be tethered on a ten-foot chain.

Dogs live with man as courtiers 'round a monarch, steeped in the flattery of his notice ... to push their favor in this world of pickings and caresses is, perhaps, the business of their lives.

A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth.

Go, little book, and wish to all Flowers in the garden, meat in the hall, A bin of wine, a spice of wit, A house with lawns enclosing it, A living river by the door, A nightingale in the sycamore!

For God's sake give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself!

That's what's provocative to me - that we can victimize people, we can torture and traumatize people with no consciousness that it is a shameful thing to do.

It can be a challenge, but my legacy, at least for the people who came before me, is you don't run from challenges because that's more comfortable and convenient.

I've a grand memory for forgetting.

Life is not a matter of holding good cards

When Christ came into my life, I came about like a well-handled ship.

When I suffer in mind, stories are my refuge; I take them like opium; and consider one who writes them as a sort of doctor of the mind.

Take care of each other.

A friend is somebody who loves us with understanding, as well as emotion.

For will anyone dare to tell me that business is more entertaining than fooling among boats? He must have never seen a boat, or never seen an office, who says so.

Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age.

My parents lived in a poor rural community on the Eastern Shore, and schools were still segregated. And I remember when lawyers came into our community to open up the public schools to black kids.

The world was made before English language, and seemingly upon a different design.

No, I'm happy doing this. Five sweaters and a pair of dirty pants, you can make pretty good money.

We got together in a few days a company of the toughest old salts imaginable--not pretty to look at, but fellows, by their faces, of the most indomitable spirit.

Some people swallow the universe like a pill; they travel on through the world, like smiling images pushed from behind.

I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.