Dean Walcott Quotes & Sayings

Clare concentrated on the words trying hard to press them into her memory and wishing they were solid objects that she could keep and carry around with her. — Marisa De Los Santos

These of us who have risen highest merely have a deeper awareness of how uncertain and empty everything is. — Pessoa, Fernando

Far too many advocates rail against this or that sexual practice; few state clearly and explicitly what we are for. — Michael Rittenhouse

It had never occurred to me before but everything in New York is built upon another thing, nothing is entirely by itself, each thing as strange as the last, and connected. — Colum McCann

Doubt, if you will, the being who loves you,
Woman or dog, but never doubt love itself. — Alfred De Musset

Deep within our souls we know that God exists and that He has given His law to us. We seek to suppress this knowledge in order to escape God's commands. But no matter how hard we try, we cannot silence this inner voice. It can be muffled but not destroyed. — R.C. Sproul

Though it is only in a very imperfect state of the world's arrangements that anyone can best serve the happiness of others by the absolute sacrifice of his own, yet, so long as the world is in that imperfect state, I fully acknowledge that the readiness to make such a sacrifice is the highest virtue which can be found in man. — John Stuart Mill

You're - you're something else, someone really special, and I feel completely justified in being in love with you. — Sarah Cross

Lying never looks good when there's a corpse involved. — Steve Howell

Feelings of longing seemed to burst from her heart; they ran in all directions, like streams of blood, seeking out paths to all the places in the wide landscape where she had lived, to all her sons roaming through the world, to all her dead lying under the earth. — Sigrid Undset

When we allow our children to become independent decision makers we give them a false idea of liberty and a mistaken notion about freedom. — Tedd Tripp

It is inherent in human consciousness to improve. So there is nothing unique about a people searching for and creating ways to make their life better - all civilizations throughout history have done this. What is unique about us in America is the accelerated rate at which we continually search for novelty and progress. — Barbara De Angelis

I would enjoy having dinner with the poet/playwright Derek Walcott. — Walter Dean Myers