William Alexander Quotes
William Alexander provides sly reflections on self, love and the danger of hidden harm.
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O if thou knew'st how thou thyself dost harm, And dost prejudge thy bliss, and spoil my rest; Then thou would'st melt the ice out of thy breast And thy relenting heart would kindly warm.
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The white sail of his soul has rounded the promontory - death.
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Earth teach me to forget myself as melted snow forgets its life. Earth teach me resignation as the leaves which die in the fall. Earth teach me courage as the tree which stands all alone. Earth teach me regeneration as the seed which rises in the spring.
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Yet with great toil all that I can attain by long experience, and in learned schools, is for to know my knowledge is but vain, and those that think them wise, are greatest fools.
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Things could be worse. Suppose your errors were counted and published everyday, like those of a baseball player.
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“Our selves are are rough and unrehearsed tales we tell the world.”
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“We have to remember that the way things are is not the only possible way that they could be.”
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“The nice thing about baking alone in the kitchen before dawn is that you can talk to yourself like a crazy person and no one suspects you're a crazy person.”
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“Backstage was chaos distilled into a very small space.”
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“Hawthorne ends the story this way: 'He failed to look beyond the shadowy scope of time, and, living once for all in eternity, to find the perfect future in the present.”
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“Choose one thing you care about and resolve to do it well. Whether you succeed or not, you will be the better for the effort.”
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“I’m lecturing my class last week. In the English language, I tell them, a double negative forms a positive. However, in some languages, such as Russian, a double negative remains a negative. But there isn’t a single language, not one, in which a double positive can express a negative. And I hear a voice from the back of the room: ‘Yeah, right.’ ”