Wenceslas Quotes & Sayings

Owing to the disabilities of the two major sovereigns, one incapacitated by alcohol and the other by insanity, the result was not what it might have been. Renewed madness was already darkening Charles's mind when he arrived and in the brief intervals when he was lucid, Wenceslas was drunk. — Barbara W. Tuchman

The sad reality is that there are many Christians who are "saved", "heaven bound," and "hell proofed" who do not care about the souls of the lost. What a beautiful contrast our Lord Jesus Christ is! His passion for souls brought Him from Heaven to earth, His Passion for souls motivated His compassionate activity. His passion for souls pressed Him to a rough cross where He surrendered His life to save the lost. — John Willis Zumwalt

There are more nasty things in pretty packages in the world than most people would believe. — Mercedes Lackey

What would beauty be if the whole world were blind? — Marty Rubin

You say I resemble a flower; I partly agree; My brain is governed by black petals of burnt daisies — Anne Sexton

To think clearly about the future, we need to clean up the language that we use in labeling the beliefs we had in the past. — Daniel Kahneman

I am not going to make promises I can't keep. I am not going to talk about big ideas like single-payer and then not level with people about how much it will cost. — Hillary Clinton

A connoisseur of woe needs fresh worries from time to time, or he will become complacent. — Peter Mayle

I was very much inspired by the things that I'd seen and done in politics, but I was also desperate for a complete departure from the reality of my political experience. 'It's Classified' and my previous book 'Eighteen Acres' are both works of fiction, but if they do seem realistic, it's by design. — Nicolle Wallace

I know it's boring to say this but I always start with the script. I mean if it's well written and it's a character that I haven't necessarily played before. — Billy Bob Thornton

A foolish German had said that man thought in words. It was totally false; a pernicious doctrine; the thoughts flashed into being in a hundred simultaneous forms, with a thousand associations, and the speaking mind selected one, forming it grossly into the inadequate symbols of words, inadequate because common to disparate situations - admitted to be inadequate for vast regions of expression, since for them there were the parallel languages of music and painting. Words were not called for in many or indeed most forms of thought: Mozart certainly thought in terms of music. He himself at this moment was thinking in terms of scent. — Patrick O'Brian

Good King Wenceslas tastes great; We might as well eat Stephen, When the brains lay round about, Toasted crisp and bleedin'. Brightly shown the moon that night, Though the virus cruel. When a poor man came in sight, He made fine undead fuel. — Michael P. Spradlin

Death and his zealous minions - dread, despair, disease - can find you anywhere at all, and the armor plate of youth will no longer protect you. — Claire Messud

A little spoon for a cup of soup teaches to be patient; and the big one, to be greedy! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

New York wasn't everything I thought it would be. It did not welcome me with open arms. The first year, I was held up at gunpoint. Raped on the roof of a building I was dragged up to with a knife in my back, and had my apartment broken into three times. I don't know why; I had nothing of value after they took my radio the first time. — Madonna Ciccone

Of the world as it exists, it is not possible to be enough afraid. — Theodor W. Adorno