Denis Waitley Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
-
The fact is that people are good, Give people affection and security, and they will give affection and be secure in their feelings and their behavior.
-
I can spend 10 to 15 minutes with someone, and they can tell me what they're going through. I may never have gone through that, but I get it on a really deep level.
-
I was really influenced by Joan Didion and Pauline Kael; they were both at the height of their influence when I was coming into my own as a reader.
-
It's so fascinating to think about how each snowflake is completely individual - there are millions and millions of them, but each one is so unique.
-
I can't go into a mob scene and sense the mood and the attitude of the crowd. I can't conduct man-on-the-street interviews or even get reactions that I can be sure are honest, because they know who I am.
-
Creative people are more prone to depression.
-
What I don't like to hear in music is something has not been thought through: that a sound is just there randomly. I want to make sure that every single little noise that's in my song is there because it's supposed to be there.
-
I was held in the Mazra Tora Prison for my role as leader of the pan-Islamist organisation Hizb ut-Tahrir in Alexandria.
-
You don't choose your public; your public chooses you.
-
The president of the United States is not a king. You know? Barack Obama was elected by the American people.
-
Concede that the new government of Louisiana is only to what it should be, as the egg is to the fowl; we shall sooner have the fowl by hatching the egg than by smashing it.
-
Fashion intersects a lot with art and film and music, and that was appealing to me. I read a bunch of fashion blogs and wanted to be part of the community.
-
Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought.
-
I miss my mother very much, and I feel closest to her when I have dinner in the oven and the children are nearby playing and I'm reading a book or doing some little project.
-
I, for one, will remain constantly vigilant of a government that admits its transgressions of liberty only when they are caught lying.
-
As a franchise, we don't have any different expectations than anyone else.
-
If I was a state, I would like to see education left to the schools themselves, but I don't want the federal government involved in education. I think that it ends up setting standards that cost you time and money and don't make any difference in education. I want to stop that.
-
The first couple shows I did by myself, I was looking around wondering where the rest of my band was.
-
All my friends and peers keep asking me when I'm going to rest - I just tell them it's another dirty four-letter word!
-
I am the poor white, fooled and pushed apart, I am the Negro bearing slavery's scars. I am the red man driven from the land, I am the immigrant clutching the hope I seek - And finding only the same old stupid plan Of dog eat dog, of mighty crush the weak.
-
Politics resemble religion; attempting to divest either of ceremony is the most certain mode of bringing either into contempt.
-
Colonial possessions added to the prestige, and to a much lesser degree to the wealth, of Europe. But the primary cause of Western affluence and power is internal – the institutions of science, democracy, and capitalism acting in concert.
-
You must be worthy of the best, but not more worthy than the rest.
