Richard Wilbur Famous Quotes & Sayings

Quiet down," said Falin. "Didn't you say something about an ambush and a murderer?"
"Crap, yes," said Marcus, and pulled Kira down behind the escalator. "Also: murderess. Don't be sexist, women can murder people too. — Dan Wells

She'd been married at twelve, before her menarche, and had been pregnant or lactating ever since. — Geraldine Brooks

if you wait around for the church, or someone else, to get something going, it may never happen. What are you waiting for? It's — Rod Dreher

Praying which does not result in pure conduct is a delusion. We have missed the whole office and virtue of praying if it does not rectify conduct. It is in the very nature of things that we must quit praying, or quit bad conduct. — Edward McKendree Bounds

I don't actually take much stock in the collapsing culture bit. I'm beginning to see it instead as the conduct of life without input from your soul. — Saul Bellow

There's healing in your hand, in your voice, in your heart, in your eyes! YOU ARE A HEALER! — Abhishek Kumar

I need to make the characters that I play in movies more accessible to audiences, more real. As an actor, you're always passive; you're not making that many choices, so when something allows you to open up a bit, you want to explore your newfound freedom. — Shu Qi

The student of prehistoric man ... cannot reject [the Castenedolo skull] as false without doing injury to his sense of truth, and he cannot accept it as fact without shattering his accepted beliefs. — Arthur Keith

It is surely only a matter of time before some federal judge finds the Constitution unconstitutional. — Mark Steyn

The heart is so peculiar. How light and how heavy it can feel at the same time.
How light. — Gabrielle Zevin

I verily believe Christianity necessary to the support of civil society. One of the beautiful boasts of our municipal jurisprudence is that Christianity is a part of the Common Law ... There never has been a period in which the Common Law did not recognize Christianity as lying its foundations. — Joseph Story