M.white Quotes

The bonus is really one of the great give-aways in business enterprise. It is the annual salve applied to the conscience of the rich and the wounds of the poor.

The vision of milk and honey, it comes and goes. But the odor of cooking goes on forever.

Dentistry is more impressive in town-what the rural man calls cleaning the teeth is called "prophylaxis" in New York.

It seemed to me that I should have a desk, even though I had no real need for a desk. I was afraid that if I had no desk in my room my life would seem too haphazard.

I can still see my first dog. For six years he met me at the same place after school and convoyed me home - a service he thought up himself. A boy doesn't forget that sort of association.

Not even a collapsing world looks dark to a man who is about to make his fortune.

I believe... that security declines as security machinery expands.

A man must have something to cling to. Without that he is as a pea vine sprawling in search of a trellis.... I was all asprawl, clinging to Beauty, which is a very restless trellis.

Children hold spring so tightly in their brown fists-just as grownups, who are less sure of it, hold it in their hearts.

Liberty is never out of bounds or off limits; it spreads wherever it can capture the imagination of men.

Humor is like a frog. You can dissect it to see how it works, but by then, it's dead.

Television should be our Lyceum, our Chautauqua, our Minsky's and our Camelot.

When a man hangs from a tree it doesn't spell justice unless he helped write the law that hanged him.

It isn't silence you can cut with a knife any more, it's interchange of ideas. Intelligent discussion of practically everything is what is breaking up modern marriage.

"Have you ever found anything that gives you relief?" "Yes. A drink."

I discovered, though, that once having given a pig an enema there is no turning back, no chance of resuming one of life's more stereotyped roles.

We stand or fall by television.

When we are young... we often experience things in the present with a nostalgia-in-advance, but we seldom guess what we will truly prize years from now.

I'd rather come back with a few transcendent memories than an album of snapshots.

I still feel that sincerity and realism are avant-garde, or can be, just as I did when I started out.

These rejections hurt me terribly because I felt it was my life that was being rejected.

I felt if I went chronologically, I'd get bogged down in childhood and that's part of our culture of complaint in America. This endless wailing about your childhood.

The imagination is not the consolation people pretend. It can even be regarded as the admission of some sort of failure.

Perhaps we'd understood each other too well to be attracted to one another. There were no occlusions in communication, those breaks in understanding that awaken desire.

Psychoanalysis feeds on intensity, as though life were all flame and no ash.

All his leisure clothes were absurd - jokes, really - as though leisure itself had to be ridiculed.

In writing one draws in the rest, the forgotten parts.

Of course the success of A Boy's Own Story took me utterly off guard.

What is new about Barthes's posthumous reputation is the view of him as a writer whose books of criticism and personal musings must be admired as serious and beautiful works of the imagination.

Hell is God's Absence.

I saw literature as a fantasy, no less absorbing for all its irrelevance - a parallel life, as dreams shadow waking but never intersect it.

The notion that I might have been able to court friends, win attention, conjure it, would have spoiled it for me. Unbidden love was what I wanted.

Faith in the atonement and intercession of Christ will keep us steadfast and immovable amid the temptations that press upon us in the church militant.

So long as He lived among men, our Saviour shared the lot of the poor. He knew by experience their cares and hardships, and He could comfort and encourage all humble workers.

It is a great thing to be a child of God, and joint-heir with Jesus Christ. If this is your privilege, you will know the fellowship of Christ's sufferings.

Christian sisters should not at any time dress extravagantly, but at all times dress as neat, modest, and healthful, as their work will allow.

You need clear, energetic minds, in order to appreciate the exalted character of the truth, to value the atonement, and to place the right estimate upon eternal things.

We must let patience have its perfect work, remembering that there are precious promises in the Scriptures for those who wait upon the Lord.

The masses will reject any theory, however reasonable it may be, if it lays a restriction upon the appetite.

The young among us are, as a general thing, allied to the world. But few maintain a special warfare against the internal foe. But few have an earnest, anxious desire to know and do the will of God.

The Bible is God's great lesson book.

Ministers have received their wages, and some have their minds too much on their wages. They labor for wages, and lose sight of the sacredness and importance of the work.

It is the chief joy of all holy beings to witness the joy and happiness of those around them.

All spiritual things are to be treated with sacred dignity. Humility and meekness are in accordance with the life of Christ, but they are to be shown in a dignified way.

Youth without beauty is half a prize.

St John, on Christ's bosom, pray for me in the days of my discipleship, in the house of my faith, in the hour of my death.

I have often thought how little I should like to have to prove organic evolution in a court of law.

We shall certainly not advance matters by jumping up and down shrilling, 'Darwin is god and I, so-and-so, am his prophet.

The past is dead, and has no resurrection.

We should teach our children to make friends with us, to communicate all their thoughts to us ... by this we find many opportunities of teaching them important truths, almost without knowing.