Keith Waldrop famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

What I would like, I think, is to live a while longer. But not again.
-- Keith Waldrop

#Thinking

Before one can walk as Christ walked, and talk as He talked, he must first begin to think as Christ thought.
Like most parents, I've been stumped by homework, the big questions, such as: 'What is the point of geography - the pilot always knows where we are going?'. Answer: 'If you didn't know any geography, people would think you were an American, and you wouldn't be able to put them right because you wouldn't know where they live.'
Americans think the only funny Brits are John Cleese, Benny Hill and whoever makes our toothpaste. They're not laughing with us, they are laughing at us.
A quotation is a handy thing to have about, saving one the trouble of thinking for oneself, always a laborious business.
Think it over, think it under.
Here is Edward Bear, coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump, on the back of his head, behind Christopher Robin. It is, as far as he knows, the only way of coming downstairs, but sometimes he feels that there really is another way, if only he could stop bumping for a moment and think of it. And then he feels that perhaps there isn't.
I don't think that when Zionism began there was a claim that we were losing - even in part - our capacity to contribute to other peoples.
Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well.
I think I feel rather differently about sympathy to what seems the normal view. I like just to feel it is there, but not always expressed.
Because of a friend, life is a little stronger, fuller, more gracious thing for the friend's existence, whether he be near or far. If the friend is close at hand, that is best; but if he is far away he still is there to think of, to wonder about, to hear from, to write to, to share life and experience with, to serve, to honor, to admire, to love.

Keith Waldrop famous quotes

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