Wendell Berry Quotes

What we do need to worry about is the possibility that we will be reduced, in the face of the enormities of our time, to silence or to mere protest.

Wendell Berry

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• Middle school was probably my hardest time. I was trying to fit in for so long, until about junior year of high school when I realized that trying to fit into this one image of perfection was never going to make me happy.

  

  Maiara Walsh
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• The Obama administration and the Democratic Congress have taken the biggest lurch to the left in policy in American history. There've been no - no Congress, no administration that has run this far to the left in such a small period of time. And there is a reaction to that.

  

  Haley Barbour
  • Time
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• I put pressure on myself all the time. I felt it so much with 'Sax,' but I had to just let go and enjoy it.

  

  Fleur East
  • Time
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• Hamish and I rarely go to launches or parties any more but prefer to spend our time hanging out together.

  

  Zoe Foster Blake
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• People really do not have time to read all the newspapers in the world and all the sites that we now commonly use on the web. There is no possibility of keeping up.

  

  Felix Dennis
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  • Up
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• When I was president of the company, I said, 'Okay, I can do this - piece of cake.' Then when you are the CEO, the responsibilities multiply enormously because you worry about everything.

  

  Indra Nooyi
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  • Company
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• I had wanted to place the Eye-in-the-Sea at an oasis on the bottom of the ocean, in some site rich with life that was likely to be patrolled by large predators. The first time I got to test the camera at such a place was in 2004, in the north end of the Gulf of Mexico, at an amazing location called the brine pool.

  

  Edith Widder
  • Life
  • Time
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• I tell inmates all the time, 'Don't complain about your grind. Do your time.'

  

  O. J. Simpson
  • Time
  • Grind
  • Complain

• I really wish that I would have gone to college. Even my son, who's into rap himself, I tell him and tell his children, 'Go to college. Get that education - it is so important. Don't do like I did.' I had all this singing on my mind, and I just didn't have time for it.

  

  Barbara Lynn
  • Time
  • Important
  • Mind

• I'm very much over my hair. If it was up to me I'd have cut it a long time ago.

  

  Samuel Larsen
  • Up
  • Time
  • Long

• I was in chains all the time, 24 hours a day, for three years. I tried to wear those chains with dignity, even if I felt that it was unbearable.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Time
  • Day
  • Dignity

• That whole environment was just incompatible with my beliefs and my personality. It was a dark time for me.

  

  Zhang Ziyi
  • Time
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  • Personality

• God was going to be to me the father that I never had, the father that I didn't have enough of, enough time with.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Time
  • God
  • Father

• Giving someone a one-time stimulus check, or a one-time tax cut that expires doesn't allow the predictability that business needs.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Time
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• If only I could step back into the time of old movies, if only I could be given the opportunity to do what Katharine Hepburn did or what Rosalind Russell did. Those kinds of characters, that kind of patter, that kind of language, that kind of script. They don't exist any more.

  

  Kari Matchett
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• After we were hit on September 11, 2001, we were in a state of national shock. Less than six weeks later, on October 26 2001, the U.S.A. Patriot Act was passed by a Congress that had little chance to debate it; many said that they scarcely had time to read it.

  

  Naomi Wolf
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• After I left Texas and went to California, I had a hard time getting anyone to play anything that I was writing, so I had to end up playing them myself. And that's how I ended up just being a saxophone player.

  

  Ornette Coleman
  • Up
  • Time
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• I knew it was time to get off of reality TV when someone asked me if I sang as well as acted.

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • Time
  • Reality
  • Me

• The world is changing and the physical barriers are down now. It's time for the emotional barriers to go down. And what better place to start than school?

  

  Laura San Giacomo
  • Time
  • World
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• 'Hound Dog' is a really short record, and most singles didn't last three minutes.

  

  Dave Davies The Kinks
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• It's not annoying if only a couple of people come up. If a bunch of them crowd around me, it's annoying.

  

  Brian Bonsall
  • People
  • Up
  • Couple

• Today, it's about gender equality, not neutrality. Anyone who doesn't agree would be a bit of an idiot.

  

  Twinkle Khanna
  • Today
  • Equality

• Malt does more than Milton can to justify God's ways to man.

  

  A. E. Housman
  • God
  • Man
  • More

• What we do need to worry about is the possibility that we will be reduced, in the face of the enormities of our time, to silence or to mere protest.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • Time
  • Worry
  • Silence