Miller Williams famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Have compassion for everyone you meet, even if they don't want it. What appears bad manners, an ill temper or cynicism is always a sign of things no ears have heard, no eyes have seen. You do not know what wars are going on down there where the spirit meets the bone.
-- Miller Williams

#War #Eye #Compassion
Every word you add dilutes the sentence.
-- Miller Williams

#Add #Sentences
I manage a toast to the Christmas tree and one to the sweet absurdity in the miracle of the verb to be. Lucky you, lucky me.
-- Miller Williams

#Christmas #Sweet #Tree
Too many poets write poems which are only difficult on the surface, difficult because the dramatic situation is easily misunderstood. It's not difficult to write poems that are misunderstood. A drunk, a three-year-old-they are easily misunderstood. What is difficult is being clear and mysterious at the same time. The dramatic situation needs to be as clear in a poem as it is in a piece of good journalism. The why is part of the mystery, but the who, what, where, and when should all be understood.
-- Miller Williams

#Writing #Years #Drunk
You do not know what wars are going on down there where the spirit meets the bone.
-- Miller Williams

#War #Spirit #Bones
Ritual is important to us as human beings. It ties us to our traditions and our histories.
-- Miller Williams

#Ties #Important #Tradition

The problem after a war is with the victor. He thinks he has just proved that war and violence pay. Who will now teach him a lesson?
No matter what political reasons are given for war, the underlying reason is always economic.
Bismarck fought 'necessary' wars and killed thousands, the idealists of the twentieth century fight 'just' wars and kill millions.
Lenin was the first to discover that capitalism 'inevitably' caused war; and he discovered this only when the First World War was already being fought. Of course he was right. Since every great state was capitalist in 1914.
Sarah took a deep breath and set off along the passageway again. A clump of lichen on the gatepost opened its eyes and watched her go. The eyes, on tendrils, had an anxious look, and when she had gone some distance away the clump, swiveling its eyes toward each other, commenced to gossip among itself. Most of it disapproved of the direction she had taken. You could tell that from the way the eyes looked meaningfully into each other. Lichen knows about directions.
If you change your attitude you will change how you see the world and discover the potential it has simply through opening up your eyes to C Differently
If you close your eyes you can imagine the hackers sitting in a room, combing through the documents to find the ones that will draw the most blood. And in a room next door are American journalists doing the same thing. As demented and criminal as it is, at least the hackers are doing it for a cause. The press is doing it for a nickel.
Wild Eyes was built for speed and I was flying down walls of water twenty and thirty feet high.
The year showed me beyond a doubt that everyone practices cafeteria religion... But the important lesson was this: there's nothing wrong with choosing. Cafeterias aren't bad per se... the key is in choosing the right dishes. You need to pick the nurturing ones (compassion), the healthy ones (love thy neighbor), not the bitter ones.
Transcend your abuse and transform it into a source of courage, creativity and compassion.

Miller Williams famous quotes

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