Johnny Van Zant Quotes

It is a scary world out there, and believe me that if someone were to try to come into my house, I want to be able to protect myself.

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• If you're in a dark place, you're there for a reason. And the only way to get through to those kids or to other people going through the same thing is really to meet them in that dark place and then slowly bring them to the light.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • People
  • Kids
  • Light

• Spiritual practice should not be confused with grim duty. It is the laughter of the Dalai Lama and the wonder born with every child.

  

  Jack Kornfield
  • Wonder
  • Spiritual
  • Practice

• Remember, you can always find East by staring directly at the sun.

  

  Nancy Cartwright
  • Remember
  • Sun
  • Find

• I'd like to do a really masculine film.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • Like
  • Film
  • Masculine

• I can only speak for myself and my own music, because that is what I am most familiar with, and I write about things that I am living or experiencing.

  

  Laura Bell Bundy
  • Music
  • Myself
  • Living

• I like to read novels where the author seems knowledgeable, like someone you know you could walk calmly next to through a complicated situation, and he or she would be alive to its meaning and ironies. And you wouldn't even have to mention them out loud to each other.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • She
  • Know
  • Author

• They're trying to tell us that we're not right, so we have to buy their products. The number one cause of mental illness is not knowing who you are and you can't know who you are if you don't spend time honoring yourself, and living in the present.

  

  Naomi Judd
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Present

• I would rather drudge out my life on a cotton plantation, till the grave opened to give me rest, than to live with an unprincipled master and a jealous mistress.

  

  Harriet Ann Jacobs
  • Life
  • Live
  • Rest

• My chief request is that anyone who is a servant of God be ready and willing, to carry this letter forward; may it never be hidden or stolen by anyone, but rather, may it be read aloud before the whole people - Yes, even when Coroticus himself is present.

  

  Saint Patrick
  • People
  • God
  • May

• 'I always play with everybody,' said Honoré. 'It is my vocation. God put me on the earth to do with people what cats do to mice. Play with them, chew the last bit of life out of them, them pick them up in my mouth and drop them on people’s doorsteps. That is the business of literature.'

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• Tugend ist zur Energie gewordne Vernunft.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

• There are no innocent civilians. It is their government and you are fighting a people, you are not trying to fight an armed force anymore. So it doesn't bother me so much to be killing the so-called innocent bystanders.

  

  Curtis LeMay
  • People
  • Trying
  • Fighting

• By the time I was 10 or 13, I'd learned the world capitals.

  

  Jake Sullivan
  • Time
  • World

• I'm not a good storyteller - I much prefer to be with people who are chatty, to have the luxury of listening.

  

  Conor McPherson
  • People
  • Good
  • Listening

• I just write books, and I do it without any notion of what I should do or shouldn't do.

  

  Jasper Fforde

• I would change policy, bring back natural grass and nickel beer. Baseball is the belly-button of our society. Straighten out baseball, and you straighten out the rest of the world.

  

  Bill Le
  • World
  • Society
  • Rest

• In the community, in the African-American community, one person ought to say something, and that is the minister. The minister is paid by the people. He doesn't work for a big company. He doesn't represent a particular special interest.

  

  Clementa C. Pinckney
  • People
  • Work
  • American

• When I was younger, I felt it essential to see every movie ever made. Now I feel as though I've got to read every book, see every art show, watch every play and opera and concert and so on. It does not end, and of course there is truth in the old cliche that the more one knows, the more one realizes one knows nothing at all.

  

  James Gray
  • Art
  • Book
  • Truth

• There is no disgrace in working. There was no silver spoon around at the time I was born.

  

  Anna Held
  • Time

• We have big, big problems - flooding, earthquake, and many foolish things which now people are doing - I mean, these self-made catastrophes. We are able to give to every man on the street the possibilities to help himself. And to fight for this was one of my duties.

  

  Frei Otto
  • People
  • Help

• Sometimes when I pick up a book off the shelf, when I'm buying a new book to read, I'll look at all of them and they all have the exact same words inside, but I'll think that one is meant to go home with me. I'll never pick the first thing off the shelf, I'll always go one behind.

  

  Jennifer Carpenter
  • Up
  • Home
  • Book

• Opera? Just what the world needs: more fat women screaming.

  

  Peter Boyle
  • World
  • Women

• It is not enough to jump if you want to reach the sky.

  

  Tirumalai Krishnamacharya Venkata Desikachar
  • Want
  • Enough
  • Sky

• It is a scary world out there, and believe me that if someone were to try to come into my house, I want to be able to protect myself.

  

  Johnny Van Zant Lynyrd Skynyrd
  • World
  • House
  • Scary