Byron Katie Quotes

Sanity doesn’t suffer, ever.

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• In the end, you have to write like you're not afraid of the critics.

  

  Maggie Stiefvater
  • You
  • End
  • Afraid

• We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves.

  

  Abraham Maslow
  • Fear
  • Know
  • More

• Films don't decide my whole life. They are just a part of who I am. What I do in my personal life should be of no concern to the filmmakers or the fans.

  

  Kareena Kapoor Khan
  • Life
  • Fans
  • Films

• I don't pick and choose subjects or settings; they pick and choose me.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Me
  • Choose
  • Settings

• It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Violence
  • Politics
  • Better

• My original dream was to become a singer-songwriter, so I sent a video of myself playing the piano and singing to all the big agencies.

  

  Park Bo-gum
  • Dream
  • Myself
  • Singing

• A revolution is not a bed of roses.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Revolution
  • Bed
  • Roses

• If a film project were available and the timing was right, I might be interested.

  

  Yann Martel
  • Film
  • Right
  • Timing

• The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Perfect
  • Universe
  • Ambition

• Obama is making a choice now that will lead to the deaths of many thousands of civilians in Afghanistan by American hands. By ordinary standards of presidents, he is a decent man. But those standards aren't good enough. He's in a position either to kill or not to kill, and he's made the decision to kill.

  

  Daniel Ellsberg
  • Good
  • American
  • Man

• Sometimes I feel as if four thousand years of silencing women, of the fear of women who were burned in oil or eviscerated in front of their daughters, is imprinted deep within me and has altered my DNA.

  

  Olympia Dukakis
  • Women
  • Fear
  • Deep

• I won't be attempting to write Jane Austen-style prose - that would be suicidal. But I will attempt to bring the highest level of my own prose, and to make it sparkle.

  

  Val McDermid
  • Style
  • Will
  • My Own

• I'm focused on football; focused on my family right now.

  

  Victor Cruz
  • Family
  • Football
  • Now

• If we are to be good stewards of the ocean, we need to understand what lives there and how the animals interact with each other and with their environment, which means we need to be constantly seeking new and improved methods for exploration and observation.

  

  Edith Widder
  • Good
  • Environment
  • Ocean

• 'Sometimes I feel so sick at the state of the world I can’t even finish my second apple pie.'

  

  Banksy
  • World
  • Sick

• It's an advantage having a limited output. When George Gershwin is asked to play his repertoire, he plays all evening. I just play 'Lady Play Your Mandolin' and I'm through.

  

  Oscar Levant

• The observers had a logbook recording the assaults, bombings, and artillery attacks on the area. Each page was ruled in vertical columns: DATE, TIME, LOCATION, DAMAGE, CASUALTIES. The columns headed ACTION TAKEN BY THE UN were completely empty.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Time
  • Action
  • Taken

• Art is vice. You don't marry it legitimately, you rape it.

  

  Edgar Degas
  • Art

• It is not the legitimate province of the Legislature to determine which religion is true, or what false. Our government is a civil, and not a religious institution.

  

  Richard Mentor Johnson
  • Government
  • Religion
  • Institution

• We're always looking over our shoulders, 'what they will think, what the press will think, what will this one - am I making the right career move?' When you're young you have to do all that to survive, I suppose.

  

  Anthony Hopkins
  • Career

• Civil rights icons, famous journalists, big-time movie producers may all have credits to their name that we can recognize and be grateful for, but their record of good works cannot excuse their harassment of women.

  

  Pramila Jayapal
  • Time
  • Good
  • Women

• You define your own life. Don't let other people write your script.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • People
  • Life
  • Script

• Research on conversion has demonstrated that, long after such an experience, a convert tends to confuse what actually happened in light of everything that occurs in its aftermath. That is to say, years later, the accounts people tell, to both themselves and others, have been slanted by all they have learned, thought, and experienced in the interim.

  

  Bart Ehrman
  • Experience
  • Light
  • Research

• Sanity doesn’t suffer, ever.

  

  Byron Katie