Wilken Quotes & Sayings

To be a man was to be responsible. It was as simple as that. To be a man was to build something, to try to make the world about him a bit easier to live in for himself and those who followed.
You could sneer at that, you could scoff, you could refuse to acknowledge it, but when it came right down to it, Conn decided it was the man who planted a tree, dug a well, or graded a road who mattered. — Louis L'Amour

We learn best by placing our 'confidence in men and women whose examples invite us to love what they love'(Robert Wilken). — Michael Dirda

We're playing strip billiards. — Roger Vadim

Hopeless and helpless doth Egeon wend, But to procrastinate his liveless end. — William Shakespeare

I think that when people start hanging around each other, they start to pick on on each other's quirks and taste in music, apparently. — Nina Dobrev

Managing people's sex lives is something that I don't think is a good role for government. — William Weld

Life without stock is barely worth living, and you will never attain demi-glace without — Anthony Bourdain

We easily forget crimes that are known to none but ourselves. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

At age four I was a camera. I took pictures with my eyes. I framed my photo within my vision and blinked my eyes to snap the shutter of my memory. Since that time, I've been impersonating inanimate objects at every opportunity. — Sophia Amoruso

It was as though an animated image of death carved out of old ivory had been shaking its hand with menaces at a motionless crowd of men made of dark and glittering bronze. — Joseph Conrad

The agenda of this book is set by the things Christians cared most about. — Robert L. Wilken

I'm always amazed by people like David Simon or the people at The Simpsons or J.K. Rowling who can create dozens and dozens of memorable characters. It seems so effortless, and even people who have just three lines in the shows or in the book have a very distinct personality, and you can feel the richness of their personal history. — Drew Magary

If you don't want to be the biggest band in the world, you may as well pack it in. — Noel Gallagher

Let's go to the food court and try some food. — Arthur D. Hlavaty

work, maximum fun". — Lily Clarke

America, like Britain before her, is now the great defender of the Status Quo. She has committed herself against revolution and radical change in the underdeveloped world because independent governments would destroy the world economic and political system, which assures the United States its disproportionate share of economic and political power ... America's preeminent wealth depends upon keeping things in the underdeveloped world much as they are, allowing change and modernization to proceed only in a controlled, orderly, and nonthreatening way. — Richard Barnet

Jesus, not dogma, is the center of the Bible. Some seem to regard a condition of salvation as the center of Christianity! But conditions are significant only because they are responses to Jesus as "Lord and Christ." (Acts 2:36). — K.C. Moser