WIST Quotations

Palahniuk, Chuck -- Invisible Monsters, ch. 1 (1999)

Dave — Tue, 28 Jul 2020 15:45:36 +0000

The murderer, the victim, the witness, each of us thinks our role is the lead.

Chuck Palahniuk (b. 1962) American novelist and freelance journalist
Invisible Monsters, ch. 1 (1999)
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~Proverbs and Sayings -- Chinese proverb

Dave — Mon, 07 Dec 2015 17:17:17 +0000

Not the cry, but the flight of a wild duck, leads the flock to fly and follow.

Proverbs, Sayings, and Adages
Chinese proverb

First recorded by Jean Paul [Johann Paul Friedrich Richter] (1763-1825), Levana, sec. 8 (1807): "Nicht das Geschrei, sagt ein chinesischer Autor, sondern der Ausflug einer wilden Ente treibt die Heerde zur Folge und zum Nachfliegen." (See H. A., A Book of Thoughts (1865))

Kissinger, Henry -- The Necessity for Choice: Prospects of American Foreign Policy, 7.4 (1961)

Dave — Mon, 10 Aug 2015 14:33:47 +0000

A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.

Henry Kissinger (1923-2024) German-American diplomat
The Necessity for Choice: Prospects of American Foreign Policy, 7.4 (1961)

Marquis, Don -- “Variety,” Collier’s (12 May 1933)

Dave — Tue, 11 Nov 2014 14:43:29 +0000

The successful people are the ones who can think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at.

Don Marquis (1878-1937) American journalist and humorist
“Variety,” Collier’s (12 May 1933)
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Humphrey, Hubert -- Speech, Buffalo (7 Jan 1967)

Dave — Thu, 05 Jun 2014 14:21:21 +0000

This, then, is the test we must set for ourselves; not to march alone but to march in such a way that others will wish to join us.

Hubert Horatio Humphrey (1911-1978) American politician
Speech, Buffalo (7 Jan 1967)

Eliot, T. S. -- “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” (1917)

Dave — Sun, 01 Feb 2004 16:00:00 +0000

No! I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be;
Am an attendant lord, one that will do
To swell a progress, start a scene or two,
Advise the prince; no doubt, an easy tool,
Deferential, glad to be of use,
Politic, cautious, and meticulous;
Full of high sentence, but a bit obtuse;
At times, indeed, almost ridiculous —
Almost, at times, the Fool.

T. S. Eliot (1888-1965) American-British poet, critic, playwright [Thomas Stearns Eliot]
“The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” (1917)