Wetmore Quotes & Sayings

I have a whole area in my closet for displaying shoes. They are in rows. But nobody comes in my closet, so they are only on display for me. It's pretty spectacular. — Laura Marano

A bullet is worth a thousand threats. And I shot two. — Aleks Canard

Birds are, perhaps, the most eloquent expression of reality. — Roger Tory Peterson

Money can make life comfortable, solve some problems and bring temporary satisfaction, but true happiness and joy is not guaranteed by money. — Sunday Adelaja

Being in love is a complicated matter; although anyone who is prepared to pretend that love is a simple, straightforward business is always in a strong position for making conquests. — Anthony Powell

To a great mind, nothing is little. — Arthur Conan Doyle

Of every noble work the silent part is best; of all expression, that which cannot be expressed. — William Wetmore Story

The Poet in his ArtMust intimate the whole, and say the smallest part. — William Wetmore Story

The Moral is that gardeners pine, Whene'er no pods adorn the vine. Of all sad words experience gleans, The saddest are: It might have beans. — Guy Wetmore Carryl

I sing the hymn of the conquered, who fell in the Battle of Life,-The hymn of the wounded, the beaten, who died overwhelmed in the strife ... The hymn of the low and the humble, the weary, the broken in heart,Who strove and who failed, acting bravely a silent and desperate part. — William Wetmore Story

O Christmas Sun! What holy task is thine!
To fold a world in the embrace of God!
— Guy Wetmore Carryl

Cut! Go again."
And again, and again, and again. Finally, after the fourth of fifth take I yelled down the hill to the director: "This isn't a fucking marathon! If we're going to go again, tell him on the bloody bike to slow down."
David turned to me and said, "Having a bit of trouble, Captain?"
"That's all right for you to say," I laughed breathlessly, "but I'm carrying a rucksack on my back with your fucking hand in a glass jar inside — John Barrowman

Goucher *never* eats lunch. If he is hungry, he will have a granola bar or another light snack. The guys, especially Reese, kid him that he does not eat enough. He used to eat more. Standing 5'9" to 5'10", he weighs in at just under 140 pounds. At the Olympic Trials in Atlanta in 1996, he weighed 145. After the 5000-meter final, where he finished a disappointing fourteenth, Wetmore told him he was fat. Goucher was livid. When he calmed down he realized Wetmore was right, and he made a conscious effort to lose any excess weight since then. He feels the difference. "My chest was bigger, my arms were bigger. Losing the five pounds has helped me thin out, and it's cut me more. It's made a big difference. — Chris Lear

They only the victory win,
Who have fought the good fight and have vanquished the demon that tempts us within;
Who have held to their faith unseduced by the prize that the world holds on high;
Who have dared for a high cause to suffer, resist, fight
if need be, to die. — William Wetmore Story

The shadows of twilight grow,
And the tiger's ancient fierceness
In my veins begins to flow. — William Wetmore Story

You see the bird and you see its flight.
You can not see through its eyes. Therefore, you don't know its plight. — Amaka Imani Nkosazana

All the ways of this world are as fickle and unstable as a sudden storm at sea. — Venerable Bede

Break my mirror-heart into a thousand pieces my beloved, so that to the world i may proudly flaunt your thousand reflections — Sushrut A. Badhe

Oh! faint delicious spring-time violet, Thine odor like a key, Turns noiselessly in memory's wards to let A thought of sorrow free. — William Wetmore Story

A major contribution of miracles is their strength in releasing you from your false sense of isolation, deprivation and lack. — Foundation For Inner Peace

But the gray and the cold are haunted by a beauty akin to pain, by a sense of a something wanted that never will come again. — William Wetmore Story