DeWitt Wallace famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

The dead carry with them to the grave in their clutched hands only that which they have given away.
-- DeWitt Wallace

#Life #Death #Hands
I do believe in the value of ideasâ€”and that eventually they get a man somewhere.
-- DeWitt Wallace

#Believe #Men #Ideas
Waste in all its forms is to be abhorred... I deplore giving money to an institution that is careless in its expenditures.
-- DeWitt Wallace

#Giving #Waste #Form
The final condensation.
-- DeWitt Wallace

#Finals #Condensation

The things that make me different are the things that make me.
Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river slipping slowly away beneath you, you will suddenly know everything there is to be known.
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.
Religion is not something separate and apart from ordinary life. It is life - life of every kind viewed from the standpoint of meaning and purpose: life lived in the fuller awareness of its human quality and spiritual significance.
You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind ON, but what you can't keep your mind OFF.
Funerals are important rituals. They don't just recognize that a life has ended; they recognize that a life was lived.
In the last stage of the spiritual master's life, the devotees of the spiritual master should take preaching activities into their own hands. In this way the spiritual master can sit down in a solitary place and render nirjana-bhajana.
I think in this country we're committed to developing plays, and many plays I've seen have been rewritten too much. The scenes are tight, the play ends at the right time, you know exactly what the scene is about, but it seems flat; you can almost see that too many hands have been on the play. The individual voice is gone.
The hand is no different from what it creates.
I was singing in a mall, and I picked a girl to come up onstage with me. As I was grabbing her hand, I fell off the stage. It felt like I was in the air forever, flying like Superman.

DeWitt Wallace famous quotes

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