Brian Perkins Quotes
It is peoples' fantasies of what is true that is so extraordinary. That that we were born and that we face eternal extinction after death is an extraordinary fantasy.Brian Perkins
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This is how it has been since time began: If you want to make something really worthwhile and true, then you have to suffer for it.
Iris DeMent -
I understand the desire to write and read about the death of publishing. It's a perversely and universally appealing topic.
Patrick deWitt -
Whenever you choose power over love, you will never find true happiness.
Karen Salmansohn -
After I was assaulted in Egypt, I learned fear. I've just never been so scared in my life. I've never been so close to death.
Lara Logan -
When I first put my hat in the ring, several very tried and true and loyal Democratic activists from our community said, 'What? She's not a Democrat. She's a Republican.' I took that as a compliment, you know, that people didn't necessarily know what my ideology might be because I wasn't driven by that.
Wendy Davis -
True love bears all, endures all and triumphs!
Dada Vaswani
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It is a true miracle when a man finally sees himself as his only opposition.
Vernon Howard -
We all live in the moment, and we often mistakenly believe that what is true today was true always. Not so in politics, and especially in Congressional elections.
Larry J. Sabato -
I've always prided myself on being myself and trying to stick true to who I am and how I was raised.
Patrick Kane -
As much as I enjoy traveling and playing on stage as an artist, I really find my true sense of purpose in a room writing a song.
Sam Hunt -
Happiness is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious than getting your own way, more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake.
J. Donald Walters -
After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.
H. G. Wells
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I was extremely lucky that I had two great wives. It sounds a bit funny to say that, but it's absolutely true.
Edmund Hillary -
When it comes to jump-starting the intricate machinery of recollection, there's nothing more effective than the scent of approaching death.
Gary Krist -
Of course, my family helped me, my brothers helped me, but after I set up my own office I had to really help myself. Some people seem to think I had an oil well in my garden! It's a nice idea but not true.
Zaha Hadid -
Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
I think the mythology of death really ran away with me when I was very young.
Tea Obreht -
Religions have always stressed that compassion is not only central to religious life, it is the key to enlightenment and it the true test of spirituality. But there have always have been those who'd rather put easier goals, like doctrine conformity, in place.
Karen Armstrong
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Parenthood is a psychic sweat lodge: enter into it only if you are ready to have your own secreted toxins running into your eyes. Few people are prepared for its power - women or men.
Amity Gaige -
Now is the time to throw off the yoke, to force renegotiation of oppressive foreign debts, and to force the imperialists to abandon their bases of aggression.
Che Guevara -
I do think about The Flash often. I think that could be a really fun role to play at some point. That's right up my alley. I just want somebody to believe in me that I could be a Superhero.
Zachary Levi -
More die in the United States of too much food than of too little.
John Kenneth Galbraith -
I was at a school in England, a prep school, from the ages of 8 and 13. And every play they did was a musical. Parents love musicals. And I don't sing. It was driving me crazy. 'We're doing 'Macbeth.' 'Yes!' 'The musical!' And I was always in the chorus, because of course, in all the main parts, you had to be able to sing.
Charlie Cox -
It is peoples' fantasies of what is true that is so extraordinary. That that we were born and that we face eternal extinction after death is an extraordinary fantasy.
Brian Perkins