Dale Wasserman famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • What use would wings be to a man bound in iron fetters? They would only drive him to even greater despair.

  • Not with dreams, but with blood and with iron, Shall a nation be moulded at last.

  • Let us roll all our strength, and all Our sweetness, up into one ball: And tear our pleasures with rough strife, Through the iron gates of life. Thus, though we cannot make our sun Stand still, yet we will make him run.

  • Mild depression is a gradual and sometimes permanent thing that undermines people the way rust weakens iron ... Like physical pain that becomes chronic, it is miserable not so much because it is intolerable in the moment as because it is intolerable to have known it in the moments gone and to look forward only to knowing it in the moments to come.

  • Conformity may give you a quiet life; it may even bring you to a University Chair. But all change in history, all advance, comes from the nonconformists. If there had been no trouble-makers, no Dissenters, we should still be living in caves.

  • Well, fancy giving money to the Government! Might as well have put it down the drain.

  • On recovering my senses, I hastened to quit a place where I hoped there was nothing further to detain me. I first filled my pockets with gold, then fastened the strings of the purse round my neck, and concealed it in my bosom.

  • It may be that today gold has become the exclusive ruler of life, but the time will come when man will again bow down before a higher god.

  • He has a heart of gold - only harder.

  • Do not hold as gold all that shines as gold.