Wosind Quotes & Sayings

He was opposed to capital punishment - "institutionalized sadism," he termed it - and in favor of prison reforms that would emphasize rehabilitation. His opinions were generally conservative, however, and he did not subscribe to the fashionable view of the sixties that criminals were victims of society. — Gerald Clarke

Pride can go without domestics, without fine clothes, can live in a house with two rooms, can eat potato, purslain, beans, lyed corn, can work on the soil, can travel afoot, can talk with poor men, or sit silent well contented with fine saloons. But vanity costs money, labor, horses, men, women, health and peace, and is still nothing at last; a long way leading nowhere.
Only one drawback; proud people are intolerably selfish, and the vain are gentle and giving. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

When the path becomes difficult, that's no reason to give up. In fact, it means you're making real progress. — Ralph Marston

And to understand how love unfolds, you must understand how Elyon loves. — Ted Dekker

This was a species with an exceptional ability to ignore its approaching doom. — Salman Rushdie

They were in a position of total ignorance and people in that position often died without being enlightened. — Eoin Colfer

The puppet thinks: It's not so much what they make me do as their hands inside me. — Charles De Lint

Mage-taught wisdom reproached him: any gift of power was two-edged. — Janny Wurts

students tend to carry their own special psychic scars: nerd, geek, dweeb, wonk, fag, wienie, four-eyes, spazola, limp-dick, needle-dick, dickless, dick-nose, pencil-neck; getting your violin or laptop TP or entomologist's kill-jar broken over your large head by thick-necked kids on the playground - and the show pulls down solid FM ratings, though — David Foster Wallace

And telling a story, I suppose, is like winding a skein of spun yarn- you sometimes lose track of the beginning. — Edith Pattou

Everyone asks me how I get my subjects to open up to me. There's no formula to it. It's just a matter of who you are and how you talk to people - of being yourself. — Mary Ellen Mark