Dwith Nelson Quotes

The half-circle of blinding turquoise ocean is this love's primal scene. That this blue exists makes my life a remarkable one, just to have seen it. To have seen such beautiful things. To find oneself placed in their midst. Choiceless. I returned there yesterday and stood again upon the mountain. ~ Maggie Nelson

One of the things I learned when I was negotiating was that until I changed myself, I could not change others. ~ Nelson Mandela

She was neither widow nor mother: she only yearned for the dignity of a woman who had once belonged, somewhere, to somebody. She had belonged to no one, for she had never wanted chick nor child. Her idea of home had been any side-alley entrance and a pint of tinted gin. All she had ever striven for was small change left lying by strangers on North Clark Street bars; and any man's bottle at all. ~ Nelson Algren

I realized that they could take everything from me except my mind and my heart. They could not take those things. Those things I still had control over. And I decided not to give them away. ~ Nelson Mandela

Reading's ability to beam you up to a different world is a good part of the reason why people like me do it in the first place
because dollar for dollar, hour per hour, it's the most expedient way to get from our proscribed little "here" to an imagined, intriguing there". Part time machine, part Concorde, part ejector seat, books are our salvation. ~ Sara Nelson

Write your sins on apples still hanging on the tree; when they fall away so do your burdens (There ~ Jandy Nelson

If bad luck knows who you are, become someone else. ~ Jandy Nelson

Reaching a general understanding that sustainability is the ultimate issue will finally bring us face-to-face with the political challenge of forging a sustainable society during the next few decades. It is a challenge we can meet if we have the leadership and the political will to do so. ~ Gaylord Nelson

If a man consults whether he is to fight, when he has the power in his own hands, it is certain that his opinion is against fighting. ~ Horatio Nelson

We can neither heal nor build if, on the one hand the rich in our society see the poor as hordes of irritants or if on the other hand the poor sit back, expecting charity. All of us must take responsibility for the upliftment of our conditions, prepared to give our best to the benefit of all ~ Nelson Mandela

Men, I think, are not capable of doing nothing, of saying nothing, of not reacting to injustice, of not protesting against oppression, of not striving for the good of society and the good life in the ways they see it. ~ Nelson Mandela

I love the rehearsal process in the theatre, and the visceral sense of contact and communication with a live audience. ~ Judd Nelson

You will be my souvenir in American summer,
when all I can think about are Parisian springs. ~ Lori Jenessa Nelson

...I am the two-dimensional one in a 3-D family. ~ Jandy Nelson

She asked me, "Was your divorce nasty?" "Not at all. The marriage was nasty. ~ Nelson DeMille

Badenhorst had perhaps been the most callous and barbaric commanding officer we had had on Robin Island. But that day, he had revealed that there was another side to his nature… it was a useful reminder that all men, even the most seemingly cold blooded, have a core of decency, and that if their hearts are touched, they are capable of changing. Ultimately, Badenhorst was not evil; his inhumanity had been foisted upon him by an inhuman system. He behaved like a brute because he was rewarded for brutish behavior. ~ Nelson Mandela

Nelson Mandela can rot in prison until he dies or I die, whichever takes longer. ~ P. W. Botha

I feel like a young man of 15. ~ Nelson Mandela

But the hard facts were that fifty years of non-violence had brought the African people nothing but more and more repressive legislation, and fewer and fewer rights. ~ Nelson Mandela

As a kid, I drew cartoon characters and comic book heroes. Spiderman and the X-Men were my favorites. ~ Kadir Nelson

If you're setting a game during the Cuban Missile Crisis, look through a library. find out what people were wearing, what other issues were in the news, how houses were furnished, what cars were being driven. Especially include things which now seem foreign. ~ Graham Nelson

Well the country songs themselves are three-chord stories, ballads which are mostly sad. If you are already feeling sorry for yourself when you listen to them they will take you to an even sadder place. ~ Willie Nelson

Ernest Hemingway was the author I drew inspiration from. ~ Nelson DeMille

I dream of our vast deserts, of our forests, of all our great wildernesses. We must never forget that it is our duty to protect this environment. ~ Nelson Mandela

I continued, "The painting shows this fish with a big eye and a halo, floating in air, and underneath the fish are all these Native Americans having sex." "What? What does that have to do with Custer's Last Stand?" "Well, the painting is titled, Holy Mackerel, Look at All Those Fucking Indians. ~ Nelson DeMille

All that (Mr. Bush) wants is Iraqi oil. ~ Nelson Mandela

The bravest man feels an anxiety 'circa praecordia' as he enters the battle; but he dreads disgrace yet more. ~ Horatio Nelson

When I went to lobby Nelson Mandela while the post-apartheid constitution was being drafted, I asked him to endorse making it illegal to discriminate on grounds of sexuality. I'd been warned that he might giggle if I mentioned homosexuality. ~ Ian McKellen

Where globalization means, as it so often does, that the rich and powerful now have new means to further enrich and empower themselves at the cost of the poorer and weaker, we have a responsibility to protest in the name of universal freedom. ~ Nelson Mandela

I never lose. I either win or I learn. ~ Nelson Mandela

For me, survival is the ability to cope with difficulties, with circumstances, and to overcome them. ~ Nelson Mandela

She's like his spirit animal, a gentle, odd, spritely being who I'm pretty sure has a storage space full of fairy dust. ~ Jandy Nelson

Treat every Frenchman as if he was the devil himself. ~ Horatio Nelson

After one has been in prison, it is the small things that one appreciates: being able to take a walk whenever one wants, going into a shop and buying a newspaper, speaking or choosing to remain silent. The simple act of being able to control one's person. ~ Nelson Mandela

Winners are different. They're a different breed of cat. ~ Byron Nelson

Your eyes are so ethereal, your whole face is. I stared at pictures of you for hours last night. You give me chills.
And you give me global warming! ~ Jandy Nelson

What in Mandela was seen as an almost saintly ability to conciliate could, in a lesser man, be read as weak-kneed populism. ~ Mark Gevisser

These numbers are staggering, in fact incomprehensible. By all accounts, we are dealing with the greatest health crisis in human history. ~ Nelson Mandela

Because the evil one is ever at work, our vigilance cannot be relaxed--not even for a moment. A small and seemingly innocent invitation can turn into a tall temptation which can lead to tragic transgression. Night and day, at home or away, we must shun sin and hold fast that which is good. ~ Russell M. Nelson

There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children. ~ Nelson Mandela

Unfinished business is our worst business. Perpetual procrastination must yield to perceptive preparation. Today we have a little more time to bless others-time to be kinder, more compassionate, quicker to thank and slower to scold, more generous in sharing, more gracious in caring. ~ Russell M. Nelson

The true character of a society is revealed in how it treats its children. ~ Nelson Mandela