Wingo Quotes & Sayings

That man loves God who puts his own life in harmony with him, and who serves his fellow men as though his life depends upon it, as indeed it does. — Sterling W. Sill

The question we should be asking is not why people are sometimes cruel, or even why a few people are usually cruel (all evidence suggests true sadists are an extremely small proportion of the population overall), but how we have come to create institutions that encourage such behavior and that suggest cruel people are in some ways admirable-or at least as deserving of sympathy as those they push around. — David Graeber

In order to escape a road of solitude, one has to work hard, and forge a new path with their own power! — Masashi Kishimoto

Room peering out, a gun in one hand, his other hand curled around the window drape. "Dad?" said Tyler in a shaky voice. Wingo held up a hand to quiet his son. He lingered at the window for a few more minutes, his gaze running up and down the streets, to the tops of the buildings and — David Baldacci

It's a war of truths; everyone has his own truth, his own vision of the world. The truth with more firepower will win the day and reign supreme — Bangambiki Habyarimana

There was always an outrageousness to our response to minor events. Flamboyance and exaggeration were the tail feathers, the jaunty plumage that stretched and flared whenever a Wingo found himself eclipsed in the lampshine of a hostile world. As a family, we were instinctive, not thoughtful. We could never outsmart our adversaries but we could always surprise them with the imaginativeness of our reactions. We functioned best as connoisseurs of hazard and endangerment. We were not truly happy unless we were engaged in our own private war with the rest of the world. Even in my sister's poems, one could always feel the tension of approaching risk. Her poems all sounded as though she had composed them of thin ice and falling rock. They possessed movement, weight, dazzle and craft. Her poetry moved through streams of time, wild and rambunctious, like an old man entering the boundary waters of the Savannah River, planning to water-ski forty miles to prove he was still a man. — Pat Conroy

No future historian of the United States will be able to use quotations from her twentieth-century poets in support of an imperial policy of conquest and slaughter. — Alice Corbin Henderson

If Henry Wingo had not been a violent man, I think he would have made a splendid father. — Pat Conroy

Lila Wingo would take the raw material of a daughter and shape her into a poet and a psychotic. — Pat Conroy

I'm proud to play for Real Madrid because I have fun; when you no longer have fun it's a sign that it's time to leave. For now though, I'm happy here at the greatest club in the world. — Cristiano Ronaldo

Don't settle for average. You were made for greatness. — Victoria Osteen

The idea of determinism combined with complete human responsibility struck me as very hard to reconcile with an idea of justice, let alone mercy. — Ken MacLeod

Life is beauty simply breathing. — A.D. Posey

Today is the youngest you will ever be. Live like it. — Mark Cuban

Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life; it is life itself. — Havelock Ellis

A pleasant companion reduces the length of the journey. — Publilius Syrus