Wilfrid Sheed quotes - Page : 5

" A deadly streak of passivity of a kind that sometimes goes with perfectionism. " # Perfection

" Through the burgeoning university network, it was suddenly possible to think of oneself as a national poet, even if the nation turned out to consist entirely of English departments. " # Nature # Poetry and Poets # Death and Dying

" The one kind of society that the Church cannot adjust to is no society at all, i.e., a setup where community has become so fragmented that a communal religion is a fiction, sustained only by talk and make-news items in the press and television. " # Divorce # Television # Churches

" The bad debater never knows that one explanation is better than five. " # Business

" Of course, history is only a muddle of facts and a fuddle of professors, and anyone who thinks it is one clear voice saying "Arise, sir Knight" deserves a life sentence in Camelot. " # Speakers and Speaking # Literature # History and Historians

" Whether or not Big Brother is watching us, we certainly have to watch him, which may be even worse. " # Brotherhood