Jo Stafford Quotes
They miss the whisper that runs any day in your mind, "Who are you really, wanderer?"-- and the answer you have to give no matter how dark and cold the world around you is: "Maybe I'm a king.
'Be alive,' the land says, 'listen - this is your time, your world, your pleasure.'
Some people are blinded by their experience. Soldiers know how important war is. Owners of slaves learn every day how inferior subject peoples are.
The signals we give-yes or no, or maybe-/should be clear/the darkness around us is deep.
Can injustice one way be corrected without the interim reaction that tries to impose injustice the other way?
Between roars the lion purrs.
I heard a bird congratulating itselfall day for being a jay.Nobody cared. But it was gladall over again, and said so, again.
If you don't know the kind of person I amand I don't know the kind of person you area pattern that others made may prevail in the worldand following the wrong god home we may miss our star.
. . . On a sandbarsunlight stretches out its limbs, or is ita sycamore, so brazen, so clean and bold?
They miss the whisper that runsany day in your mind, "Who are you really, wanderer?"--and the answer you have to giveno matter how dark and coldthe world around you is:"Maybe I'm a king.
Faith is blind belief. Atheism is blind disbelief. No one has all the information needed to take up such fixed positions.
Human knowledge is but a ripple on the water's surface. To go deeper, we must accept the fact that we don't know everything
When you choose to look down on something, you render yourself incapable of understanding it.
IF YOU WANT TO CREATE A CHANGE, you must challenge not only the models of Unreality, but the paradigms that underwrite them.
When a goat likes a book, the whole book is gone, and the meaning has to go find an author again.- The Trouble With Reading
The only way to ensure democracy functions correctly is to question its governance constantly. Fail to do so and you may awake to find yourself living in a police state.
They say that history is going on somewhere.They say it won't stop. I have heldOne picture still for a long time and waited.
For even in the pit of darkness, the beacon of humanity can always shine through.
There's nothing man can imagine that nature hasn't already created a zillion times better.
Writing is a series of verbal suggestions designed to provoke a psychological reaction and an aesthetic experience.
Every creative act, however small, enriches our species and the world around us. To find and nurture talent, is to be truly wealthy.
Don’t listen to advice. Give yourself the freedom to make your own errors, it’s the only way you’ll learn.
People that are scared of the dark have great imaginations and are my kind of people. Those who see nothing in the darkness are boring.
People will come to test and divide us, but, as long as we keep compassion in our hearts for others, they won't win.
The handholds for hope are there for all of us but are made plainest to those in poverty, for whom survival actually depends on hope in their God.
Science Fiction is a safe, fertile arena in which to rehearse the potential scientific facts of tomorrow
Reluctant hero, drafted again each Fourthof July, I'll bow and remember you. Whoshall we follow next? Who shall we killnext time?
Warm familiar scents drift softly from the oven, And imprint forever upon our heartsThat this is homeand that we are loved.
Time Dreams. They are memories of the soul. They encompass all Time. They exist in the space of a dream.
Raising interest rates is voo-doo. You can't deal with a global system problem by trying to solve it with this.
Writing is the spectrum through which the chaos of life can be seen, studied and understood.
