Wuorinen Charles Quotes & Sayings

The agricultural co-operative movement has been a severe ideological and political struggle from the very beginning. No cooperative can be established without going through such a struggle. Before a brand-new social system can be built on the site of the old, the site must be swept clean. Invariably, remnants of old ideas reflecting the old system remain in people's minds for a long time, and they do not easily give way. After a co-operative is established, it must go through many more struggles before it can be consolidated. Even then, the moment it relaxes its efforts it may collapse. — Mao Zedong

You won't accomplish anything sitting around wishing. You've got to do things. — Allen Drury

I think I could eat one of Bellamy's veal pies. — William Pitt

Good morning, Mr. Mitchell." "It is a good morning, isn't it, Sherry? Could you possibly give him the memo?" He pointed to his brother. "I think he missed it. — Ella Frank

One thing I like about historical fiction is that I'm not constantly focusing on me, or people like me; you're obliged to concentrate on lives that are completely other than your own. — Emma Donoghue

It's a big wide world, after all, and Mattawa, Washington, perched on the edge of it, is somewhere in between Nowhere and Nothing At All. — Elise Forier Edie

Theoretical principals must sometimes give way for the sake of practical advantages. — William Pitt

Tim was dead. And he's always been a loser. I'd be damned if I was going to be the victim of a loser - or anyone else. — Patricia Briggs

I don't know what I feel or what I want to feel. I don't know what to think or what I am. — Fernando Pessoa

we walk the plank with strangers. — Sylvia Plath

To hear that you're doing something that other people are enjoying, it's a fun game. It's like hitting a tennis ball over the net, and somebody hits it back. That's what it feels like with the fans. It feels like someone else is participating in my creation, and it's quite incredible. — Kristin Bauer Van Straten

The secret of good teaching is to regard the child's intelligence as a fertile field in which seeds may be sown, to grow under the heat of flaming imagination. — Maria Montessori

I don't know if the camera likes me, but I do like the camera. — Celine Dion

'River of Light,' to a dense but powerful score commissioned from Charles Wuorinen and with ravishing lighting by Mark Stanley, has depth and resonance. — Robert Gottlieb

The Lord has never restricted Himself to move by any predetermined formula — Rick Joyner

I'm a technical manager, but I don't have to take care of people. I only have to worry about technology itself. — Linus Torvalds