Lauren Mayberry Quotes

I've come to terms with the fact that standing and screaming in someone's face about how wrong they are is never gonna make anyone change.

Lauren Mayberry Chvrches

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• There was a president imposed by Syria. Our battle... is to have a Lebanese president that we elect.

  

  Walid Jumblatt
  • President
  • Battle
  • Syria

• This horror of pain is a rather low instinct and... if I think of human beings I've known and of my own life, such as it is, I can't recall any case of pain which didn't, on the whole, enrich life.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • Life
  • Think
  • Pain

• A 'conservative believer' must be someone who believes that Jesus was truly human as well as truly divine.

  

  N. T. Wright
  • Jesus
  • Human
  • Conservative

• I think anyone that isn't fired up right now shouldn't probably be out here.

  

  Karrie Webb
  • Up
  • Think
  • Now

• You always want to try, in everything you do, to attempt something you've never tried before, and the only way to succeed at that is through failure, and the only way to succeed through failure is just banging your head against the wall over and over until you get to that interesting thing on the other side.

  

  Beau Willimon
  • Want
  • Interesting
  • Failure

• I just wanted to be like J.Lo when I started. The last thing I want to be is a model-slash-actress. But I love actress-slash-musicians.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Like
  • Model
  • Musicians

• It is better to have a lion at the head of an army of sheep, than a sheep at the head of an army of lions.

  

  Daniel Defoe
  • Leadership
  • Army
  • Lion

• You feel like you're really a part of a movement when you're singing Journey at a karaoke bar.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Singing
  • Feel
  • Journey

• You never talk about what you want when giving money. I don't pay attention to what other people think... There shouldn't be restrictions of any kind on political contributions.

  

  Harold Simmons
  • People
  • Money
  • Political

• I wouldn't mind being the lead guitarist in an incredibly successful rock band. However, I don't play the guitar.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Mind
  • Band
  • Rock

• I don't cover my face because I want to show my identity.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Want
  • Identity
  • Face

• I have some sarcastic sides of me.

  

  Eden Sher
  • Me
  • Sides
  • Sarcastic

• I am a ball player in the summer and a farmer in the winter time, and I aim to be a success at both professions.

  

  Zack Wheat
  • Time
  • Success
  • Player

• My wish is to bring my heroes to the big screen, and many of them have already appeared in my films.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Wish
  • Big
  • Heroes

• Cole Archer's Chillout Mix. That's my son's mix. He's ten weeks old, and this is what he listens to: 'Valerie' by Amy Winehouse, 'Everyday People' by Arrested Development, The Beatles' 'Rocky Raccoon,' and Bruce Springsteen's 'Atlantic City.'

  

  Adam Pally
  • People
  • City
  • Son

• I'm not looking to step in and make 'big, bold changes' - I think reddit is great, and the team has a lot of good features already in the pipeline to improve functionality for users and mods, help with subreddit discovery, improve the API, and help bring reddit to more people.

  

  Yishan Wong
  • People
  • Good
  • Great

• Only buy something that you'd be perfectly happy to hold if the market shut down for 10 years.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Happy
  • Years
  • Down

• Financial crisis is the moment of truth for real collectors and true artists.

  

  Victor Pinchuk
  • Real
  • Truth
  • True

• Never expect justice from a vain man; if he has the negative magnanimity not to disparage you, it is the most you can expect.

  

  Washington Allston
  • Justice
  • Vain
  • Magnanimity

• when people go away, or when we leave the places we love, or something we treasure goes out of our life - I have always noticed that before it happens - this leaving, this parting - when we think about it beforehand we are overwhelmed with sadness at the loss to come. ... the most unbearable sense of loss, the worst homesickness of all, so I have found, is this loss and sickness we feel beforehand, before we ever leave home.

  

  Nan Fairbrother
  • People
  • Life
  • Love

• I didn't care too much for ballet, because you had to be more disciplined, and you sort of looked like everyone else. It required a certain kind of conformity that I didn't feel like I wanted to do.

  

  Suzanne Farrell
  • Want
  • Ballet
  • Conformity

• Some people can do things and get away with it. Comics are famously like that. Why is it that some guys can say the most horrible things and it's not offensive, it's funny?

  

  Christopher Walken
  • People
  • Why
  • Funny

• The truth is, we're all cyborgs with cell phones and online identities.

  

  Geoff Johns
  • Truth

• I've come to terms with the fact that standing and screaming in someone's face about how wrong they are is never gonna make anyone change.

  

  Lauren Mayberry Chvrches