Gwynfor Roberts Quotes & Sayings

America is not static. America is striving. And sometimes, America requires critique. Jingoism is an avoidance of realism. You can simultaneously love and be disappointed in the object of your love, wanting it to be better than it is. In fact, that is a measure of love. Honest critique is a pillar of patriotism. — Charles M. Blow

The idea is to take the most ordinary things and make them extraordinary, as Gerard Manley Hopkins does in his poems. — Alfonso A. Ossorio

Even from the very beginning, I didn't put any money in the stock market. — Trey Parker

There should be hours for necessities, not for delights; times to repair our nature with comforting repose, and not for us to waste these times. — William Shakespeare

Congress seems drugged and inert most of the time ... its idea of meeting a problem is to hold hearings or, in extreme cases, to appoint a commission. — Shirley Chisholm

Critics? How do they happen? I know how it happened to me. I would send a poem or story to a magazine and they would say this doesn't suit our needs precisely but on the other hand you sound interesting. Would you be interested in doing a review? — Leslie Fiedler

What are we saying when we say now, something is holy? That means you should take a different attitude to what you are doing than if you were, for example, doing it for kicks. — Alan Watts

Remember this! It is never an entire people who is cruel; it is merely individuals who exert their will on others. — Sujata Massey

Every night, before he turned in, he would write in the book. He wrote about things he had done, things he had seen, and thoughts he had had. Sometimes he drew a picture. He always ended by asking himself a question so he would have something to think about while falling asleep. — E.B. White

I shall never ask, never refuse, nor ever resign an office. — George Washington

We all have scars, Wharick. Mine happen to be on the the outside, Kathel answered but knew what he said wasn't entirely true. He bore scars on the inside as well. — Madison Thorne Grey

Doctors diagnose, nurses heal, and caregivers make sense of it all. — Brett H. Lewis

To wheedle and coax is safer than to command. — Anne Bronte

The worst sin in the world is when the poor try to rob the poor. the enemy is fairly obvious, why weaken our ranks? — Charles Bukowski