Wilentz Quotes & Sayings

Without the theological aspect, the emphasis on adoption too easily is seen as mere charity. Without the missional aspect, the doctrine of adoption too easily is seen as mere metaphor. — Russell D. Moore

There's no way my love for fame and her love for puppies will ever work out successfully. — Spencer Pratt

Politics is about who wins and loses. The rest is of marginal interest. — Sean Wilentz

You can get all A's and still flunk life. — Walker Percy

The problem of Palestine was that everyone wanted things simple: everyone was an extremist because everyone wanted things simple. It was the problem of humanity. Good and evil, as if there were only those two. The interesting thing was to seek truth and then face it. — Amy Wilentz

If people are looking forward to my films, then I am happy, and I must be doing something right. — Abhishek Bachchan

Reading to kids is to ordinary reading what jazz is to a string quartet. — Sean Wilentz

Put cream and sugar on a fly and it tastes very much like a raspberry. — E.W. Howe

Amy Wilentz's Martyrs' Crossing is set against the ongoing tension of Israeli-Palestinian relations. When a Palestinian woman is turned back at the checkpoint at Ramallah as she attempts to take her sick child to an Israeli hospital, she and the young Israeli soldier who's guarding the crossing find their lives altered forever. — Nancy Pearl

I think that's what Dylan's trying to do: to create a space artistically where something else can take shape, can take life - where there's hope. — Sean Wilentz

I cannot conceive any work of art as having a separate existence from life itself — Antonin Artaud

Inaction in a deed of mercy becomes an action in a deadly sin. — Helena Petrovna Blavatsky

A panoramic vision of Bob Dylan, his music, his shifting place in American culture, from multiple angles. In fact, reading Sean Wilentz's Bob Dylan in America is as thrilling and surprising as listening to a great Dylan song. — Martin Scorsese

Sunshine is the best disinfectant — Louis D. Brandeis

To say that poverty explains terror is to slander those caught in poverty who choose to lead worthy lives. [Terrorists] are not the oppressed, but they are the parasites of the oppressed. — Sean Wilentz

Unlike so many Dylan-writer-wannabes and phony 'encyclopedia' compilers, Sean Wilentz makes me feel he was in the room when he chronicles events that I participated in. Finally a breath of fresh words founded in hardcore, intelligent research. — Al Kooper

Maya Jasanoff's Liberty's Exiles places the loyalist experience and the aftermath of the American Revolution in an entirely new light. Alongside the Spirit of 1776, Jasanoff gives us the Spirit of 1783, dedicated to remaking the mighty British Empire, and then offers a stunning reinterpretation of the Loyalists' complicated role in that remaking. Her meticulously researched and superbly written account is historical revision at its finest, and it affirms her place as one of the very finest historians of the rising generation. — Sean Wilentz

One of the reasons that any person writes anything is to try and keep his own sanity together. — Sean Wilentz