Katherine Anne Porter Quotes About Energy

Quotes about: Energy

• I think I've only spent about ten percent of my energies on writing. The other ninety percent went to keeping my head above water.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Writing, Thinking, Water

• But my belief is growing that our political and social evils are remediable, if only all of us who want a change for the better just get up and work for it, all the time, with as much knowledge and intelligence as we can muster for it. Half the wrongs of human life exist because of the inertia of people who simply will not use their energies in fighting for what they believe in. And finally the wrongs roll up into world catastrophes and millions of deaths and a terrible set-back for all mankind.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Believe, Fighting, People

  Katherine Anne Porter, Isabel Bayley (1994). “Letters of Katherine Anne Porter”, p.291, Atlantic Monthly Press

• Education must be taken out of the hands of rich illiterates, third rate politicians, and put where it belongs: in the care of scholars. At present the whole University system is rotten to the core, and an appalling waste of time, energy and money.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Education, Taken, Hands

  Katherine Anne Porter, Isabel Bayley (1994). “Letters of Katherine Anne Porter”, p.148, Atlantic Monthly Press

• Two-thirds of my energies go in trying to save one-third for work.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Two, Trying, Energy

  Katherine Anne Porter, Isabel Bayley (1994). “Letters of Katherine Anne Porter”, p.116, Atlantic Monthly Press

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