Phil Ochs Quotes
It is wrong to expect a reward for your struggles. The reward is the act of struggle itself, not what you win.
Quotes to Explore
-
The thing about tennis is if you stay off for two weeks, or just for three days, you can lose your rhythm quickly. So it's just a question of constant diligence and vigilance.
-
Let the path be open to talent.
-
Problems will disappear as darkness disappears with the onset of light.
-
While I was serving in the Florida Senate, American soldiers were being killed in Iraq, a war we should have never started, and often by Iranian proxies and their improvised explosive devices.
-
The film business creates a large amount of waste, and I'm not immune to waste in the business.
-
I love being in a courtroom.
-
We Christians should be aware that there's something at stake in cultural participation that we wouldn't have been concerned about if all we did was worry about the messages in culture.
-
Vamps no longer exist. Stars have taken their roles.
-
You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.
-
We always push the boundaries on the styles we put on a record.
-
In order for answers to become clear, the questions have to be clear.
-
We did an episode where she goes out to get a job and she gets fired because she's not good. They hire a babysitter to help out and she finds out she hates the fact that the kids have more fun with the sitter than her.
-
My hobbies are painting, crafts, and I like golfing.
-
I want to make people laugh.
-
Hitting is timing. Pitching is upsetting timing.
-
I will be the last person to condemn ALF the Animal Liberation Front.
-
To the more judicial and scientific temper of our day their invective would seem overdrawn and their sympathy would seem partisanship. In Jeremiah and in the prophetic psalms the poor as a class are made identical with the meek and godly, and 'rich' and 'wicked' are almost synonymous terms.
-
À vous il faut la vie naturelle, à moi la vie factice.
-
I never imagined myself in a movie with magic.
-
The better the singer's voice is, the harder it is to believe what they're saying. So I turn my weaknesses into an advantage.
-
To get art nowadays, in cinema or books or anything, that grapples with the possibility of a meaningless universe... it just doesn't happen any more. In even the most indie of the indie films, everything has to come to some kind of neat conclusion.
-
Music is a therapy.It is a communication far more powerful than words, far more immediate, far more efficient.
-
Face your fear, empty yourself, trust your own voice, let go of control, have faith in outcomes, connect with a larger purpose, derive meaning from the struggle.
-
It is wrong to expect a reward for your struggles. The reward is the act of struggle itself, not what you win.
