Laymond Wilburn Quotes & Sayings

When did pursuing your ambitions cross the line from brave into foolhardy? How did you know when to stop? — Hanya Yanagihara

His and hers?" "No," he says. "I don't care which, but make sure there's no difference in the plates. I'd rather the chef not know which is mine." The waiter nods and disappears as I regard Naz curiously. "Why don't you want the chef to know?" "Because if he knows which is mine, he might poison it. — J.M. Darhower

Thoughts you feel as you act are living thoughts. Thoughts you think while you don't act are dead thoughts. — Ilchi Lee

Words like "freedom," "justice," "democracy" are not common concepts; on the contrary, they are rare. People are not born knowing what these are. It takes enormous and, above all, individual effort to arrive at the respect for other people that these words imply. --"The Crusade of Indignation," in Nation — James Baldwin

Oliver Cromwell (1599-1658) moved from a legitimate to a charismatic role, reversing the course followed by Washington. Yet therewere surface similarities in their careers. Both led military rebellions against English monarchs
Cromwell against Charles I, Washington against George III. Each took local militia
the "train bands" of Cromwell, the colonial levies of Washington
and forged professional armies on a national scale. Each infused a new ethos in his troops
a religious spirit in Cromwell's case, a post-colonial American identity in Washington's. — Garry Wills

The state of the world, of course, is constantly changing, and so is theory. — Teresa De Lauretis

What kind of pressure was she talking about? Atmospheric? Gravitational? "Yes," I said. "A lot. Everywhere, there is some kind of pressure. — Matt Haig