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Willingly Quotes (page 557)

Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to suceed. If I fail, no one wil say, "She doesn't have what it takes." They will say, "Women don't have what it takes. Clare Boothe Luce
I am your spaniel; and, Demetrius, The more you beat me, I will fawn on you: Use me but as your spaniel, spurn me, strike me, Neglect me, lose me; only give me leave, Unworthy as I am, to follow you. What worse place can I beg in your love,--And yet a place of high respect with me,--Than to be used as you use your dog? William Shakespeare
The gospel is preached in the ears of all men; it only comes with power to some. The power that is in the gospel does not lie in the eloquence of the preacher otherwise men would be converters of souls. Nor does it lie in the preacher’s learning; otherwise it could consists of the wisdom of men. We might preach till our tongues rotted, till we should exhaust our lungs and die, but never a soul would be converted unless there were mysterious power going with it – the Holy Ghost changing the... Charles Spurgeon
James Beard quote: "The only thing that will make a souffle fall is if it knows..."
The only thing that will make a souffle fall is if it knows you're afraid of it. James Beard
Henry David Thoreau quote: "While men believe in the infinite some ponds will be thought..."
While men believe in the infinite some ponds will be thought to be bottomless. Henry David Thoreau
He walked out into the road and stood. The silence. The salitter drying from the earth. The mudstained shapes of flooded cities burned to th waterline. At a crossroads a ground set with dolmen stones where the spoken bones of oracles lay moldering. No sound but the wind. What will you say? A living man spoke these lines? He sharpened a quill with his small pen knife to scribe these things in sloe or lampblack? At some reckonable and entabled moment? He is coming to steal my eyes. To seal my... Cormac McCarthy
...We must also realize-students, teachers, and laymen alike-that even when we have accomplished the task that lies before us, we will not have accomplished the whole task. We must be more than a nation of functional literates. We must become a nation of truly competent readers, recognizing all that the word competent implies. Nothing less wil satisfy the needs of the world that is coming. Mortimer Adler
Creative work is more accurately a machine that digs down and finds stuff, emotional stuff that will someday be raw material that can be used to produce more stuff, stuff like itself - clay to be available for future use. David Byrne
Perhaps when we face our maker, we will not be asked, 'How many positions did you hold,' but rather, 'How many people did you help? Thomas S. Monson
Czeslaw Milosz quote: "ConsolationCalm down. Both your sins and your good deeds will..."
ConsolationCalm down. Both your sins and your good deeds will be lost in oblivion. Czeslaw Milosz
Love is the cure, for your pain will keep giving birth to more painuntil your eyes constantly exhale love as effortlessly as your body yields its scent. Rumi
Anais Nin quote: "I will always be the virgin-prostitute, the perverse angel,..."
I will always be the virgin-prostitute, the perverse angel, the two-faced sinister and saintly woman. Anais Nin
In their innocence, very young children know themselves to be light and love. If we will allow them, they can teach us to see ourselves the same way. Michael Jackson
Our civilization has fallen out of touch with night. With lights, we drive the holiness and beauty of night back to the forests and the sea; the little villages, the crossroads even, will have none of it. Are modern folk, perhaps, afraid of night? Do they fear that vast serenity, the mystery of infinite space, the austerity of stars? Henry Beston
Archibald MacLeish quote: "Beauty is that Medusa's head which men go armed to seek and..."
Beauty is that Medusa's head which men go armed to seek and sever, and dead will starve and sting forever. Archibald MacLeish

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