Wagstaffe Fragment Quotes & Sayings

The opinions prevalent in one age, as truths above the reach of controversy, are confuted and rejected in another, and rise again to reception in remoter times. Thus the human mind is kept in motion without progress. — Samuel Johnson

You've heard of people living in a fool's paradise? Well, Leonora has a duplex there. — George S. Kaufman

Humor can bring people under the tent. And a good joke can deflect some of the intensity surrounding a serious subject. — Ted Danson

The walls have ears, ears that hear each little sound you make every time you stamp, throw a lamp. — Elvis Presley

Deciding under uncertainty is bad enough, but deciding under an illusion of certainty is catastrophic. — Kenneth E. Boulding

The riches of scholarship, the benignities of literature, defy fortune and outlive calamity. They are beyond the reach of thief or moth or rust. As they cannot be inherited, so they cannot, be alienated. — James Russell Lowell

I was summoned to shed blood. — Shinjirou

I studied him silently. He looked like he always did - a living, breathing statue. Perfection without any humanity, and yet he was here. — Jennifer L. Armentrout

What's true is immaterial. It's what people believe. Belief is the truth. — Michael Marshall

Leave me alone. I'm fine. — Barry White

His philanthropy was of that gunpowderous sort that the difference between it & animosity was hard to determine — Charles Dickens

When I first made a grid, I happened to be thinking of the innocence of trees, and then a grid came into my mind and I thought it represented innocence, and I still do, and so I painted it and then I was satisfied. I thought, 'This is my vision.' — Agnes Martin

Literature is the record of our discontent. — Virginia Woolf

Meditation practice is a way of making friends with ourselves. Whether we are worthy or unworthy, that's not the point. It's developing a friendly attitude to ourselves, accepting the hidden neurosis coming through. — Chogyam Trungpa