WN Stanley Quotes

Relationship is the difference between grace and law.

Art consists of reshaping life but it does not create life, nor cause life.

Yieldedness is vital in listening to what He has to say.

My period as a young teenager when you really listen to music so you can get understand a little bit more about what the music is was, say, 1965 to 1968. I was just lucky to be in those times.

From my perspective, 'postmodernism' merely names an interesting set of developments in the social order that is based on the presumption that God does not matter.

Nothing is ever really yours until you share it.

Saints cannot exist without a community

A poem has secrets that the poet knows nothing of.

The supreme morality of art is to endure.

How shall the heart be reconciled / To its feast of losses?

Earth's blackest day and earth's brightest day are only three days apart.

You have to set the tone and the pace, define objectives and strategies, and demonstrate through personal example what you expect from others.

One critic wrote . . . that my poems sounded as though they had been translated from the Hungarian. I don't know why, but somehow that made me feel quite lighthearted.

If you find something that gets hold of you in the Word, pass it on to somebody that very day.

Prayer is commitment. We don't merely co-operate with God with certain things held back within. We, the total person, co-operate. This means that co-operation equals committment.

It is always incorrect to assume you can know what someone's moral convictions are based on their philosophical theories.

It's easy to imagine ways the future can be ugly and depressing. It's harder, but more worthwhile, to imagine plausible ways we can make it better.

Whatever our creed, we stand with admiration before the sublime character of Jesus.

The reason men don't know the law of life is because they're afraid to look Eternity in the face.

If you like the story then don't hold back in telling me about it, and if you don't then please keep your opinions to yourself!

The real trouble with the writing game is that no general rule can be worked out for uniform guidance, and this applies to sales as well as to writing.

The method of magnitude estimation provided a direct measure of sensation.

The type of measure used placed constraints on which statistics can be used.

The idea - the core idea of humanism - is that the act of reading about great deeds will lead you to imitate them.

Sentences can save us. Who could ask for anything more?

Ripe bananas are the mark of a good produce section. A good produce section is the mark of a superior grocery store. A superior grocery store is the mark of a good man.

Like Joseph Mitchell, I would scour the streets of New York and find little pieces of what other people think of as junk - and collect it.

Like a lot of what happens in novels, inspiration is a sort of spontaneous combustion--the oily rags of the head and heart.

I would never write about anyone who is not at the end of his rope.

I'm trying to be slightly happier with myself. No one really wants to be miserable all the time.

Computers don't seem real to me because there's a sheet of glass between you and whatever is happening.

The discussion of ideas as opposed to the American narcissistic obsession with what's going on with the self, that's the general thing people are talking about.

A man once told me that his dog was half pit bull and half Poodle. He claimed that it wasn't much good as a guard dog, but it was a vicious gossip.

Here's something to think about: If God appeared to you and asked, "Why should I let you into heaven?" how would you answer?

All of us are made up of the stories that we listen to, the ones we disagree with and the ones that we agree with.

I like for it to be mountain music or old-time country music or traditional bluegrass. Either one will fit me. It's traditional, basically.

When people conclude that all is futile, then the absurd becomes the norm.

When rock roll is done with that fervor, it's close to gospel.

Complexity is the enemy of clarity

I believe in my music.

I was lucky enough as a kid to spend most of my weekends at the Fillmore East. On a great night, that was like a Holy Roller evangelical church.

If you feed an appetite, it grows. Satisfying an appetite does not diminish it. It expands it. To diminish an appetite, you have to starve it.

A coach, on the other hand [when compared to counseling], helps us assess the present so that we can operate more effectively in the future.

When some French were assembling an encyclopedia of paranormal experiences, they decided to leave déjà vu out, because it was so common it could not be considered paranormal.

If your leadership isn't all about you, it will live beyond you.

I had heard some women make comments about my chest, so why not show it off? Nobody wants to see a fat guy in tights. That wouldn't be fair to the fans.

But lies were what people wanted; that was politics.

What we need is equality without conformity.

Multiply your age times your realized pretax annual household income from all sources except inheritances. Divide by ten. This, less any inherited wealth, is what your net worth should be.

Our democratic richness arrives when we're able to comprehend our collective humanity accurately.