This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Willa Cather, fully Willa Sibert Cather
Writing ought either to be the manufacture of stories for which there is a market demand -- a business as safe and commendable as making soap or breakfast foods -- or it should be an art, which is always a search for something for which there is no market demand, something new and untried, where the values are intrinsic and have nothing to do with standardized values.
Whittaker Chambers, born Jay Vivian Chambers, aka Jay David Whittaker Chambers
I associated God with ill-ventilated vestries and ill-ventilated minds.
Whittaker Chambers, born Jay Vivian Chambers, aka Jay David Whittaker Chambers
At issue was the question whether this man's faith could prevail against a man whose equal faith it was that this society is sick beyond saving, and that mercy itself pleads for its swift extinction and replacement by another.
Whittaker Chambers, born Jay Vivian Chambers, aka Jay David Whittaker Chambers
What I felt [as he was about to testify before the Congressional committee] was what we see in the eye of a bird or an animal that we are about to kill, which knows that it is about to be killed, and whose torment is not the certainty of death or pain, but the horror of the interval before death comes in which it knows that it has lost light and freedom forever. It is not yet dead. But it is no longer alive.
Walt Disney, fully Walter Elias "Walt" Disney
I know different ways of looking at things. I have my stockholders, and I feel a very keen responsibility to the shareholders, but I feel that the main responsibility I have to them is to have the stock appreciate. And you only have it appreciate by reinvesting as much as you can back in the business. And that's what we've done... and that has been my philosophy on running the business.
Business | Control | Faith | Good | Judgment | Policy | Thought | Will | Business | Thought |
Whittaker Chambers, born Jay Vivian Chambers, aka Jay David Whittaker Chambers
I am a man who, reluctantly, grudgingly, step by step, is destroying himself that this country and the faith by which it lives may continue to exist.
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Wilferd Peterson, fully Wilferd Arlan Peterson
And then there is the thrill of creatively sowing ideas and inspiration into the minds of others. Often our contributions will actually change lives by sharing appreciation, courage, love, and joy. Carry the ideal of being a creative sower, that you are on the side of growth, plenty, peace, and progress. Make it a point to scatter creative seeds every day of your life!
Adventure | Art | Courage | Curiosity | Daring | Day | Dreams | Faith | Flexibility | Grave | Heart | Life | Life | Man | Men | Reading | Safe | Theories | Flexibility | Art | Stamina |
Walt Whitman, fully Walter "Walt" Whitman
Great is Youth--equally great is Old Age--great are Day and Night. Great is Wealth--great is Poverty--great is Expression-great is Silence.
Walt Whitman, fully Walter "Walt" Whitman
I swear the earth shall surely be complete to him or her who shall be complete, the earth remains jagged and broken only to him or her who remains jagged and broken.
The move from economic exploitation to policies that are grounded in fear seems deliberately designed to produce suffering. Finally, as every exploitative system eventually learns, the exploitation rooted in fear reaches its limit of unbearable suffering.
Let a human being throw the energies of his soul into the making of something, and the instinct of workmanship will take care of his honesty.
Faith |
Modern men are afraid of the past. It is a record of human achievement, but its other face is human defeat.
This is the way of greatness, In the supreme moments of history, terms like duty, truth, justice, and mercy - which in our torpid hours are tried words - become a measure of decision. . . .
The one injurious and fatal fact of our present church work is the barrier between the churches and the poorest classes. The first thing for us to do is to demolish this barrier. The impression is abroad among the poor that they are not wanted in the churches. This impression is either correct or incorrect. If it is correct, then there is no missionary work, for us who are pastors, half so urgent as the conversion of our congregations to Christianity. If it is incorrect, we are still guilty before God in that we have allowed such an impression to go abroad; and we are bound to address ourselves, at once and with all diligence, to the business of convincing the poor people that they are wanted, and will be made welcome in the churches.
Wayne Dyer, fully Wayne Walter Dyer
Have you ever noticed when you’re in the presence of certain people that you feel better about yourself? Their compassionate energy has the noticeably pleasant impact of simply making you feel really good about yourself. You’ll impact others with this energy of compassion as you develop your connection to intention.