Claire Shipman famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • For a people, as for an individual, it is tragic to have ambitions and to lack both the means essential to their fulfillment and any hope of acquiring those means.

  • A country scratching a lazy irritation at sagging doorjambs and late trains, whose greatest attribute is a collective, smelly tolerance, where a chap will put up with almost everything, which means he won't care about anything enough to get out of a chair.A country of public insouciance and private, grubby guilt, where you can believe anything as long as you don't believe it too fervently. A country where the highest aspiration is for a quiet life.

  • The whole bible is the working out of the relationship between God and man. God is not a dictator barking out orders and demanding silent obedience. Were it so, there would be no relationship at all. No real relationship goes just one way. There are always two active parties. We must have reverence and awe for God, and honor for the chain of tradition. But that doesn't mean we can't use new information to help us read the holy texts in new ways.

  • I am grateful for - though I can't keep up with - the flood of articles, theses, and textbooks that mean to share insight concerning the nature of poetry.

  • You can't be without passion. Passion means the possessiveness to be the best.

  • There is not a command God gives to His children for which He does not provide the enablement for obedience.

  • Every living creature is the son of the supreme Lord, and He does not tolerate even ants being killed

  • History does not eliminate grievances. It lays them down like landmines.

  • Art does not exist for politics, or for instruction- it exists primarily for pleasure, or it is nothing.

  • She who means no mischief does it all.

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