Joseph Weill Quotes & Sayings

I wasn't aware that 'House on Mango Street' was so influenced by Spanish until after I finished. — Sandra Cisneros

If you do not wish for His kingdom, don't pray for it. But if you do, you must do more than pray for it, you must work for it. — John Ruskin

We can be hindered in our development and our personal growth by political conditions. Outer circumstances can constrain us. Only when we are free to develop our innate abilities can we live as free beings. But we are just as much determined by inner potential and outer opportunities as the Stone Age boy on the Rhine, the lion in Africa, or the apple tree in the garden. — Jostein Gaarder

And yet, protest it if we will,
Some corner of the mind retains
The medieval man, who still
Keeps watch upon those starry skeins
And drives us out of doors at night
To gaze at anagrams of light. — Adrienne Rich

The similarities between street drug abuse and psychotropic prescription drug use are disturbing. Both types are toxic. Both can cause psychosis, damage the brain and other organs, and even cause death. And neither type of mind-altering drugs, legal or illegal, treats disease. It's important to recognize that the only significant difference between many prescription psychotropic drugs and street drugs such as "speed" and "downers" is that prescription drugs are legal. — Sydney Walker

If we use our lives for other purposes than those given by God, not only do we miss happiness, but we actually hurt ourselves and beget in us queer little "kinks". — Fulton J. Sheen

It doesn't take much to get me up for baseball. Once the National Anthem plays, I get chills. I even know the words to it now. — Pete Rose

The images in a picture book are the driving forces that tell the story. The words tell only what the pictures can't. — Dan Yaccarino