Whitbeck Coldwell Quotes & Sayings

But when we crave power over life - endless wealth, unassailable safety, immortality - then desire becomes greed. And if knowledge allies itself to that greed, then comes evil. Then the balance of the world is swayed, and ruin weighs heavy in the scale. — Ursula K. Le Guin

All my life I have had the utmost admiration for suicides. I have always considered them superior to me in every way. — Thomas Bernhard

God gets the great stories. Novelists must make do with more mundane fictions. — Richard Flanagan

There was some kind of connection between the capacity to love and the capacity to love *running*. The engineering was certainly the same: both depended on loosening your grip on your own desires, putting aside what you wanted and appreciating what you've got, being patient and forgiving and ... undemanding ... maybe we shouldn't be surprised that getting better at one could make you better at the other. — Christopher McDougall

Europeans don't seem to have the groupie mentality. — Kid Rock

To discern what weaknesses and faults separate you from God, you must enter into your own inward ground and then confront yourself. — Johannes Tauler