Wolansky Page Quotes & Sayings

All creative effort - including the making of an omelet - is preceded by destruction. — Yi-Fu Tuan

What I know is like the leaves on that tree; what I teach is only a small part. But I offer it to all with an open hand. What do I not teach? Whatever is fascinating to discuss, divides people against each other, but has no bearing on putting an end to sorrow. What do I teach? Only what is necessary to take you to the other shore. — Gautama Buddha

My crime is that I will not go with the multitude to do evil. My singularity is that when I say that freedom is of God and slavery is of the devil, I mean just what I say. My fanaticism is that I insist on the American people abolishing slavery, or ceasing to prate on the rights of man. — William Lloyd Garrison

The chicken had his wish, and was magically transformed into a fox. Then he found that he could not digest grain. — Idries Shah

Since the world is ending," Peter quoted from behind us, "why not let the children touch the paintings? — Ben Lerner

I've never been sick a day in my life. I'm healthy, and I think I can make other people healthy, too. — David H. Murdock

The true art of being young is knowing how to defy gravity and upset as many people as possible while doing it. How to penetrate the great secrets of the universe and damn the torpedoes. How to stir the demons of our destiny ... — Mick Rock

No marriage stays in the same pattern forever. It is both the best feature of marriage and the worst, that it inevitably changes. — Lisa Kleypas

The details and symbols of your life have been deliberately constructed to make you believe what white people say about you. Please try to remember that what they believe, as well as what they do and cause you to endure, does not testify to your inferiority but to their inhumanity and fear. — James Baldwin