Quotes of: Wright Keyword

Immaterial as water, too vast for any mortal apprehension, the Web's outstanding qualities allow us to confuse the ungraspable with the eternal.

The Library at Night

One man is as good as another until he has written a book.

Letters of Benjamin Jowett, M.A. - Master Of Balliol College, Oxford

As my former Yale colleague Rogers Smith has put it: "Elegance is not worth that price.

The Landscape of History: How Historians Map the Past

Short stories are often treated as the poor cousins of novels.

The Lost Library: Gay Fiction Rediscovered

He who licks his wounds cannot be affectionate

Of love and lust; on the psychoanalysis of romantic and sexual emotions; from the works of Theodor Reik

Sticks and stones may break my bones, but I might be a vampire so I don't give a shit. I'll heal

Lord of the Vampires

Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.

Letters of John Wesley

The central truth that serves as the platform for Christian marriage — and for all Christian relationships — is that in Christ we are at every moment eternally loved and genuinely significant.

The Marriage Builder

a single generation enamoured of foreign ways is almost enough in history to risk the whole continuity of civilization and learning.

Myths of the Hindus & Buddhists

But forgiveness is the act of not putting anyone out of your heart, even those who are acting out of deep ignorance or out of confusion and pain.

Meditation for Beginners

Just because we're friends, doesn't mean I shouldn't have to say sorry. You deserve that respect.

Marshmallows for Breakfast

Suddenly, she employed those very English weapons: devious good manners and a rapid change of subject.

Miss Webster and Chérif

Compared to the unleashed forces of warfare and of faith, Mount Vesuvius was kinder to the legacy of antiquity.

The Swerve: How the World Became Modern

To understand ourselves and our life is the point of insight meditation: to understand and to be free.

Seeking the Heart of Wisdom: The Path of Insight Meditation

A factor that greatly supports the opening of energy in practice is exercise and care of the physical body.

Seeking the Heart of Wisdom: The Path of Insight Meditation

I don't know whether to toss you through that window or shake your hand and say 'Well done'" Henry said in a tired voice.

Splendid

What we do comes out of who we believe we are.

Sex God: Exploring the Endless Connections Between Sexuality and Spirituality

And as I watched him, I knew that in every dark night there was, somewhere, a small light burning that could never be quenched.

Son of the Shadows

I fear that there will be no neat ending to this, in the manner of the old Greek plays. Where the Gods descend, and all is explained, and tidied away.

Something Coming Through

What we call 'time' isn't chronological but spatial; what we call 'death' is merely a transition between different kinds of matter.

The Theory of Clouds

He was in my nose, my mouth, on my skin, inside my cells, deep in the marrow of my bones. Just then, he was everything to me.

Twice as Hot