Kingsmill Quotes & Sayings

Too often the mentally ill are marginalized as people who just can't pull up their socks. If only it were that simple. — Suzanne F. Kingsmill

Writers are idolized not because they love their fellow men, which is never a recommendation and in extreme instances leads to crucifixion, but because their self-love is in tune with current fears and desires, and in giving it expression they are speaking for an inarticulate multitude. — Hugh Kingsmill

I examine each student carefully: Is there a balance between their tonal and their nagual? — Frederick Lenz

Hamlet is every man's self-love with all its dreams realized. He wears all the crowns and carries every cross. — Hugh Kingsmill

I want to throw my voice more, I want to manipulate melody more ... I want to be less deliberate and mechanical ... I want less melody. — Sufjan Stevens

Traditions cannot themselves, simply with their own powers, do what needs to be done. These earlier experiences and accomplishments were dealing with other issues, providing guidance for different worlds than the world of the early twenty-first century. — Thomas Berry

There are dons who care for the intellect and the imagination, and there are priests who care for the spirit; but broadly speaking the function of universities and churches alike is to trim and tame enthusiasm, to suppress curiosity, and, in short, to whittle immortal souls into serviceable props of the established order. — Hugh Kingsmill

It is difficult to love mankind unless one has a reasonable private income, and when one has a reasonable private income one has better things to do than loving mankind. — Hugh Kingsmill

Whatever you determine to be true in the subconscious becomes true for you. — Richard Hatch

On hearing this remark, my heart jumped clear up in my throat.. I thought surely it was going to hop right out on the depot platform. I looked up and tried to tell him who I was, but something went wrong. When the words finally came out they sounded like the squeaky old pulley on our well when Mama drew up a bucket of water. — Wilson Rawls

Being with Josh is like being touched from the inside out. An unexpected blaze of sunshine on an otherwise bleak winter day. Wrapping your fingers around a mug of hot chocolate after walking home in that frigid lake-effect wind. A fire crackling softly beneath your outstretched hands. The perfect combination of cupcake and icing, the kind where you can't quite identify all the secret ingredients, but you feel them melting together on your tongue, and you know that for as long you live, this will be the best thing you've ever tasted. — Sarah Ockler

The reward of renunciation is some good greater than the thing renounced. To renounce with no vision of such a good, from fear or in automatic obedience to a formula, is to weaken the springs of life, and to diminish the soul's resistance to this world. — Hugh Kingsmill

Ideas get substance and value not by being discussed but by being lived. — Hugh Kingsmill

Friends are God's apology for relations. — Hugh Kingsmill

She fails to see who I am, even, for her eyes do not, will not, take me in. Instead they transmit a powerful message. She is like a billboard flashing, starkly: 'Keep Out'. — Carol Lee

Most of the avoidable suffering in life springs from our attempts to escape the unavoidable suffering inherent in the fragmentary nature of our present existence. We expect immortal satisfactions from mortal conditions, and lasting and perfect happiness in the midst of universal change. To encourage this expectation, to persuade mankind that the ideal is realizable in this world, after a few preliminary changes in external conditions, is the distinguishing mark of all charlatans, whether in thought or action. — Hugh Kingsmill

Bacon's not the only thing that's cured by hanging from a string. — Hugh Kingsmill

She sat looking at him as she always did; her glance had tenderness without scorn and sadness without pity. — Ayn Rand

Behind the big names of twentieth-century literature there stands a shadow cabinet of writers waiting to take over once the Wind of Change has blown. My own vote goes to Hugh Kingsmill as leader of this opposition. — Hugh Kingsmill

The winds of tribulation, which blow out some men's candles of commitment, only fan the fires of faith of others. — Neal A. Maxwell

The public mind [is] a cloudy region where only the simplest shapes are discerned with any accuracy. — Hugh Kingsmill

So basically you're just a fucking train wreck?" she joked.
"I prefer conflicted," I corrected. — Chasta Schneider

Hamlet is egotism as it appears to itself, and Don Quixote is egotism as it appears to the detached observer. — Hugh Kingsmill

A charlatan makes obscure what is clear; a thinker makes clear what is obscure. — Hugh Kingsmill

Charity may cover a multitude of sins, but success transmutes them into virtues. — Hugh Kingsmill

Nuala shot me a hard look. Shut up. I don't think love has anything to do with how the other person is. I mean, maybe a little. I think what really matters is you yourself. Like, you know, let's say you lo- really liked a self-involved ass. That doesn't matter. What matters is how that ass makes you feel. If you feel like the best person in the world when you're with him, that's what makes you like him. It really isn't about how nice of a person he is at all. — Maggie Stiefvater

A concern with the perfectibility of mankind is always a symptom of thwarted or perverted development. — Hugh Kingsmill

During the investigation evidence of the vulnerability of women in the modelling profession was startling and models are at high risk of eating disorders. — Denise Kingsmill, Baroness Kingsmill

Society is based on the assumption that everyone is alike and no one is alive. — Hugh Kingsmill