Stringencies Quotes & Sayings

The free-will of man cannot impune the sovereignty of God, and conversely the sovereignty of God would not impune the free-will of men. — R. Alan Woods

The older America, until the 1890s and in some respects until 1914, was wrapped in the security of continental isolation, village society, the Protestant denominations, and a flourishing industrial capitalism. But reluctantly, year by year, over several decades, it has been drawn into the twentieth century and forced to cope with its unpleasant realities: first the incursions of cosmopolitanism and skepticism, then the disappearance of American isolation and easy military security, the collapse of traditional capitalism and its supplementation by a centralized welfare state, finally the unrelenting costs and stringencies of the Second World War, the Korean War, and the cold war. As a consequence, the heartland of America, filled with people who are often fundamentalist in religion, nativist in prejudice, isolationist in foreign policy, and conservative in economics, has constantly rumbled with an underground revolt against all these tormenting manifestations of our modern predicament. — Richard Hofstadter

The existence of any library, even mine, allows readers a sense of what their craft is truly about, a craft that struggles against the stringencies of time by bringing fragments of the past into their present. It grants them a glimpse, however secret or distant, into the minds of other human beings, and allows them a certain knowledge of their own condition through the stories stored here for their perusal. Above all, it tells readers that their craft consist of the power to remember, actively, through the prompt of the page, selected moments of the human experience. This was the great practice established by the Library of Alexandria. — Alberto Manguel

It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor. — Seneca.

Except in the rare cases of great dynamic thinkers whose thoughts are as turning-points in the history of our race, it is by Style that writers gain distinction, by Style they secure their immortality. — George Henry Lewes

Why do you fear when you know I will always catch you?' he said. — Jennifer Silverwood

I was never tempted by any political program... I don't want to hear about the fucking masses and I never did. — William S. Burroughs

The way to be a man if you're a little boy is to be willing to throw your weight around. — Patricia Ireland

What matters most in a child's development, they say, is not how much information we can stuff into her brain in the first few years. What matters, instead, is whether we are able to help her develop a very different set of qualities, a list that includes persistence, self-control, curiosity, conscientiousness, grit and self-confidence. — Paul Tough

My bones are ringing the way sometimes people say their ears are ringing, I'm so tired. — David Foster Wallace

I do want to direct a movie from horseback one day. — Cary Fukunaga

White
Godiva, I unpeel --
Dead hands, dead stringencies. — Sylvia Plath

A person who thinks all the time has nothing to think about except thoughts. So he loses touch with Reality, and lives in a world of illusion. — Alan Watts

Punctuation is a courtesy designed to help readers to understand a story without stumbling. — Lynne Truss

If something's true and sincere, it happens regardless of marketing. The more I talk about it, the more I'm telling people how they should react. And that is an asshole. — Christian Bale