Staplefords Quotes & Sayings

So to hope to be able to have peace, to be able to have justice and environmental balance, are consequences of our behavior, not just our intentions. — Godfrey Reggio

Time is not ours and we would not own it. It does not wound us to say so.
from the prose poem INNOCENCE — Jay Woodman

The goal of the artist is not to resolve life's mysteries, but to deepen them. — Jerry Uelsmann

In nineteen minutes, you can mow the front lawn; color your hair; watch a third of a hockey game. In nineteen minutes, you can bake scones or get a tooth filled by a dentist; you can fold laundry for a family of five.
In nineteen minutes, you can stop the world; or you can just jump off it. — Jodi Picoult

In no other country in the world is the love of property keener or more alert than in the United States, and nowhere else does the majority display less inclination toward doctrines which in any way threaten the way property is owned. — Alexis De Tocqueville

Jordan is the only Arab state that has provided citizenship to Palestinian refugees and integrated them. But something has to be done about the Palestinians living in refugee camps in Syria and Lebanon. — Walter Russell Mead

I have a really basic uniform: in winter, black tights and any old dress that I can throw on. In summer, high-waisted jeans and this shirt, or that shirt, and a cashmere cardigan just in case. — Claudia Schiffer

I grew up in a town where there were no galleries, no museums, no theaters - a very religious, ultraconservative community. — Robert Wilson

I wish to use the words of Justice Brandeis dissenting in Olmstead to speak for me. He wrote, 'Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or ill, it teaches the whole people by its example.' — Timothy McVeigh

I have been very lucky. I have always been able to eat and drink and dance in my life so I am not afraid of anything. And if suddenly I should have nothing I would still be grateful. — Micaela Flores Amaya