Dean Walley Quotes & Sayings

I was something that lay under the sun and felt it, like the pumpkins, and I did not want to be anything more. I was entirely happy. Perhaps we feel like that when we die and become a part of something entire, whether it is sun and air, or goodness and knowledge. At any rate, that is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great. When it comes to one, it comes as naturally as sleep. — Willa Cather

The significant difference between Proust and Faulkner, for Sartre, is that where Proust discovers salvation in time, in the recovery of time past, for Faulkner time is never lost, however much he may want, like a mystic, to forget time. Both writers emphasize the transitoriness of emotion, of the condition of love or misery, or whatever passes because it is transitory in time. "Proust really should have employed a technique like Faulkner's," Sartre legislates, "that was the logical outcome of his metaphysic. Faulkner, however, is a lost man, and because he knows that he is lost he risks pushing his thoughts to its conclusion. Proust is a classicist and a Frenchman; and the French lose themselves with caution and always end by finding themselves. — John McCormick

The American people expect and deserve a government that works and leaders who work together. — Bill Frist

If we are to be biblical, then, the issue is not whether we should have a doctrine of predestination or not, but what kind we should embrace. — R.C. Sproul

Nowadays the rights of one scumbag are considered far more important than the collective right of 29 others to be taught without being distracted. — Frank Chalk

When I came to Detroit I was just a mild-mannered Sunday-school boy. — Ty Cobb

When I was 4, my dad let me 'help' him back out of the driveway, but I'm amazing at driving golf carts. — Mark Indelicato

'I have nothing to offer you but a lifetime's worth of failures and misfortune,' Sergio said with damp eyes,
'but they are yours if you want them.'
And for some reason buried deep in the incomprehensible mystery that is woman, she did want them. Very much. — Josh Wagner

And just remember to always end a fight with these two words: yes dear. Biting your tongue at the end of a fight will up the ante of her using hers later to make-up. — K. Bromberg

I have my warts. I sometimes say things that get me in trouble. In other words, I lead with my heart and not my head. That's the only chance we have against George Bush. — Howard Dean

The salesman knows nothing of what he is selling save that he is charging a great deal too much for it. — Oscar Wilde

Few persons are made of such strong fiber that they will make a costly outlay when surface work will pass as well in the market. — Edward McKendree Bounds