Wendelken Obituary Quotes & Sayings

I believe in illusion - I don't believe in magic. — Estelle

I'm a failed poet. Reading poetry helps me to see the world differently, and I try to infuse my prose with figurative language, which goes against the trend in fiction. — Jesmyn Ward

The United States cannot reshape other countries in its own image and that, with a few exceptions, its efforts to police the world are neither in its interests nor within the scope of its resources. This whole tendency to see ourselves as the center of political enlightenment and as teachers to a great part of the rest of the world strikes me as unthought-through, vainglorious and undesirable. — George F. Kennan

Before you can brighten the corner where you are, you must first develop dislike for the initial dull corner you once endured. You can't change what you are comfortable with. — Israelmore Ayivor

If you understand something in only one way, then you don't really understand it at all. The secret of what anything means to us depends on how we've connected it to all other things we know. Well-connected representations let you turn ideas around in your mind, to envision things from many perspectives until you find one that works for you. And that's what we mean by thinking! — Marvin Minsky

I don't want to throw everything away for something uncertain. — David Levithan

When the # mind is strong and the # heart is pure,
you are free — Paramahansa Yogananda

Hence, in a constitutional government the fighting-men have the supreme power, and those who possess arms are the citizens — Aristotle.

Those who love a cause are those who love the life which has to be led in order to serve it. — Simone Weil