WN Stanley Quotes

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 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.

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.

What we need is equality without conformity.

Utopia is the process of making a better world, the name for one path history can take, a dynamic, tumultuous, agonizing process, with no end. Struggle forever.

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.

But lies were what people wanted; that was politics.

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.

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

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.

We should conceive of ourselves not as rulers of Earth, but as highly powerful, conscious stewards: The Earth is given to us in trust, and we can screw it up or make it work well and sustainably.

Our intentions may be very good, but, because the intelligence is limited, the action may turn out to be a mistake - a mistake, but not necessarily a sin, for sin comes out of a wrong intention.

I've done it all. I'm thankful and proud of what I've accomplished in my life. I hope to keep doing it.

Loyalty publicly results in leverage privately.

A fool and his money are lucky enough to get together in the first place.

Your talent and giftedness as a leader have the potential to take you farther than your character can sustain you. That ought to scare you.

If we know how to pray, we know how to live.

Eminent nutritionists have traded their independence for the food industry's favors.

We in universities are not in the democracy business. What we do, when we're doing it, is teach and learn.

As leaders, we are never responsible for filling anyone else's cup. Our responsibility is to empty ours.

I live in the house bad reviews built.

Your powers are dead or dedicated. If they are dedicated, they are alive with God and tingle with surprising power. If they are saved up, taken care of for their own ends, they are dead.

It is only in the depths of crisis and despair that the fear of losing one's personality breeds millennial hopes of rescue: otherwise, complacency prevails.

Where sin has abounded in me, Grace now much more abounds in me. I live by that 'much more.'

I do not support abortion rights. Although what I would support in this vexed area is not clear to me.

Science arises from the discovery of Identity amid Diversity.

We must continue to pursue the thought that we do not merely belong to the Kingdom - the Kingdom belongs to us.

When you pray, you begin to feel the sense of being sent.

Christianity not only saves you from sin, but from cynicism.

The best way in the world to deceive believers is to cloak a message in religious language and declare that it conveys some new insight from God.

Poetry today is easier to write but harder to remember.

Anybody with money can put on a KISS show, but they can't be KISS.

Certainly the modern poets I cherish most are disturbing spirits; they do not come to coo.

Jesus did not predict a place. Jesus predicted a people.

My reputation has grown slowly.

Critical opinion on my films has always been salvaged by what I would call subsequent critical opinion.

Many years from now, what would you like people to line up and thank you for?

You cannot communicate complicated information to large groups of people. As you increase the number of people, you have to decrease the complexity of the information.

God has a hard-on for a Marine because we kill everything we see. He plays His game, we play ours.

I live about six miles from where I was born and raised.

Blame is a change-avoidance strategy.

I am a Congregationalist with Catholic sensibilities. Which probably explains how I ended up in a Episcopal church.

One does not have to make Frank Capra movies to like people.

To come to terms with our beginning requires a truthful story to acquire the skills to live in gratitude rather than resentment for the gift of life.

How did the dolphins and whales get such big brains? They obviously don't need such big brains to catch fish.

Asking doesn't mean you lack wisdom - it's evidence of wisdom.

Our hope in life beyond death is a hope made possible, not by some general sentimental belief in life after death, but by our participation in the life of Christ.

You can disseminate your art, and it's all such easy access now. The upside to it is that more people are creating than ever before.

No pleasure here on earth I find For in this world I'm bound to ramble.