Widman Quotes & Sayings

None of us mattered to her, not me, or her critics or defenders. No more than bugs on a lampshade. — Alice Munro

There are places where years have no meaning, where only a hair's breadth of history separates the present from the past. Standing there on that bleak hillside, a young man in a place where other young men had died, it was possible to feel a connection to that past, a sense that in some place further back on the the stream of time these young men were still fighting, and still dying, that they would always be fighting this battle, in this place, over and over again, with ever the same end. — John Connolly

I've been around a long time, and life still has a whole lot of surprises for me. — Loretta Lynn

No one could have imagined the effects the Internet would have: ... there's a vast new intimacy and accidental poetry, not to mention the weirdest porn. The entire human experience seems to unveil itself like the surface of a new planet. JG Ballard, 2004 — J.G. Ballard

President Obama is not the Antichrist. But what I am saying is this: the course he is choosing to lead our nation is paving the way for the future reign of the Antichrist. — Robert Jeffress

It's always fun to see where my journey takes me and how sometimes what's not on the list is so much better than what you could have imagined. — Yvette Gonzalez-Nacer

...what only hurts me now would torture and kill me then! — Thomas Hardy

For the past eight or so months their pack had been dealing with one issue after another from violent anti-paranormal maniacs to crazy vampires. It was nice that the only thing they had on their plate now was a bet for how soon two of their packmates would finally get together. — Katie Reus

To give freedom is still more easy. It is not necessary to guide; it only requires to let go the rein. But to form a free government; that is, to temper together these opposite elements of liberty and restraint in one work, requires much thought, deep reflection, a sagacious, powerful, and combining mind. — Edmund Burke

When it all comes down to it, though we may be accused of being coddled and cosseted, our consciences need to be right before God. If that is the case, we have nothing to fear or to apologize for. — Jasmine Baucham

Roused by the lash of his own stubborn tail, Our lion now will foreign foes assail. — John Dryden

Once you start moving [market] lower, then you trigger of all sorts of things. You trigger people who have to sell because they're over-levered. So they sell their winners and their losers. They're just trying to raise cash. So, what you then get is spreading malaise throughout the global markets. — Mohamed El-Erian

I am not on this planet to get something done - the things we accomplish are expressions of our purpose. — Paul Williams