D.E. Stevenson Quotes

The best piece of advice Ive ever been given was, Be in the business youre in. Dont just be a satellite around it and expect it to come to you. Be in the business youre in.

The true wisdom is to be always seasonable, and to change with a good grace in changing circumstances.

Let any man speak long enough, he will get believers.

The difficulty is not to write, but to write what you mean.

He is not dead, this friend; not dead, Gone some few, trifling steps ahead, And nearer to the end; So that you, too, once past the bend, Shall meet again, as face to face, this friend You fancy dead.

My idea of man's chief end was to enrich the world with things of beauty, and have a fairly good time myself while doing so.

It is not enough to be ready to go where duty calls. A man should stand around where he can hear the call!

There is but one art, to omit! Oh, if I knew how to omit I would ask no other knowledge. A man who knows how to omit would make an Iliad of a daily paper.

It is better to be a fool than to be dead.

The saddest object in civilization, and to my mind the greatest confession of its failure, is the man who can work, who wants work, and who is not allowed to work.

Extreme busyness, whether at school or college, kirk or market, is a symptom of deficient vitality.

Sightseeing is the art of disappointment.

You have no idea, unless you have tried it, how endlessly long is a summer's day, that you measure out only by hunger, and bring to an end only when you are drowsy.

Whenever the moon and stars are set, Whenever the wind is high, All night long in the dark and wet, A man goes riding by.

If it comes to a swinging, swing all, say I.

An intelligent person, looking out of his eyes and hearkening in his ears, with a smile on his face all the time, will get more true education than many another in a life of heroic vigils".

A good conscience is eight parts of courage.

By the time a man gets well into his seventies his continued existence is a mere miracle.

To avoid an occasion for our virtues is a worse degree of failure than to push forward pluckily and make a fall.

The sound of tireless voices is the price we pay for the right to hear the music of our own opinions.

The university is the archive of the Western mind, it's the keeper of the Western culture, ... the guardian of our heritage, the teacher of our teachers, ... the dwelling place of the free mind.

An independent is the guy who wants to take the politics out of politics.

A man doesn't save a century, or a civilization, but a militant party wedded to a principle can.

Bad administration, to be sure, can destroy good policy, but good administration can never save bad policy.

Here, in the dread tribunal of last resort, valor contended against valor. Here brave men struggled and died for the right as God gave them to see the right.

Our strength lies, not alone in our proving grounds and our stockpiles, but in our ideals, our goals, and their universal appeal to all men who are struggling to breathe free.

Men may be born free; they cannot be born wise; and it is the duty of the university to make the free wise.

We have some fast guys out there. It's always fun to compete with each other at practice in the outfield. It's going to be a fun year out there.

The balls definitely carry a lot more. There should be some more home runs this year. Some of the guys on the team will have more home runs. On defense we'll have to cover some more ground.

I think a poet, like a painter, should be a craftsperson.

I write, or used to write, to explain to myself situations I couldn't otherwise solve or understand. Meditation comes very naturally to me.

I remain loyal to Bach, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert in music and to Shakespeare and Jane Austen in literature.

democracy is dying. We are ruled by faceless bureaucrats and lecherous puritans. ... You think about it. 'All right for me but not for you' is their philosophy.

When everything is for 'fun' nothing is for the good.

I did know Ted Hughes and I partly wrote the book to explain to myself and others the complexities of a marriage that was for six years wonderfully productive of poetry and then ended in tragedy.

There comes a time when you have to trust your own judgment, when you must close your eyes and let your instinct rule you.

My soul, how will I recognize you if we meet?

A hobbyhorse can be a tiring ride for nonenthusiasts.

There were people in the South who were ardently opposed to slavery. And maybe, if we get into truth and reconciliation, those will be the people we want to name schools and streets after.

I love museums, and I think they're fantastic, but they don't touch the people who I frequently think need to be touched with at least some reminder of legacy.

Montgomery's unique role in the domestic slave trade was that it was the first community that had a rail line that connected the Deep South to the mid-Atlantic region.

In a landscape littered with all of this imagery about the nobility of the Civil War and the Confederate effort and struggle, the absence of markers says something really powerful.

Friends that you have known for a long time and love very dearly never seem to grow old.

Poverty is easy to bear if it is only temporary, easier still if it is an entirely voluntary burden.

There is something very appealing about a room which one occupied as a child; it brings back one's childhood more vividly than anything else I know.

Few of us have the necessary unselfishness to hear with gladness the talents of others extolled or to listen with patience to the successes of those whom we despise—Vivian

It is intensely frustrating. The longer you live, the more interesting life gets, and yet many of the parts involve carrying trays and putting lamb chops down in front of the leading man.

I often wrangle with myself as an actor, and wrestle with the process. In striving for authenticity I often have the feeling I am falling short.

I often don't feel like the person I look like.

I wanted to be the conduit for somebody else's experiences, filtered through me, and passed on to other people. Which is the job description, really.