Jon Lee Anderson Quotes

If you can find a way to confound people's prejudices, restore the humanity of people, individuals, you restore them to life.

Jon Lee Anderson

• Life
• Humanity
• Prejudices
• Restore

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• There's a sense of being under siege in many Muslim communities. People just assume there are agents or informants in their mosque now. It's a fact of life.

  

  Ibrahim Hooper
  • People
  • Life
  • Now

• Energy is necessary for economic growth, for a better quality of life, and for human progress.

  

  Mac Thornberry
  • Life
  • Energy
  • Quality

• All my adult life, if I didn't have several hours a day to sit in a room by myself, I would get antsy and irritable.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Life
  • Day
  • Myself

• I am not a member of Fat Liberation, nor do I think that obesity is healthy. But I do believe that in many ways my life has been a more charmed and happy one because I was always large.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Happy

• But when I was a teenager, the idea of spending the rest of my life in a factory was real depressing. So the idea that I could become a musician opened up some possibilities I didn't see otherwise.

  

  Wayne Kramer
  • Life
  • Up
  • Real

• We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and avoiding pain.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Life
  • Action
  • Pain

• After reading Eminem's autobiography, which I did because I'm so interested in him as an artist, I respect him a lot. Even though he seems angry and mad, he's had to fight so many demons in his life.

  

  Taryn Manning Boomkat
  • Life
  • Respect
  • Reading

• My life would have gone along perfectly well, politically speaking, if it hadn't been for girls.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Been

• Most people go to ashrams or retreats to destress and rejuvenate themselves. But I come back to my roots, the place where I spent half my life. And when I return, I spend time in the farms, eating a stalk of sugarcane, driving a tractor, and chilling with childhood friends.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• My music is mostly for the music. And it gives the liberty to do anything which I want. And nobody limits me to one genre of music. But I learn from life and I try to give back to life, in a way, whether it's the thought of the song or whether it's the approach to the arrangement or anything.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Life
  • Music
  • Song

• I've worked all my life to shed myself of any character.

  

  Sam Neill
  • Life
  • Character
  • Myself

• One of my fantasies in my life has been that I was granted access with a camera to go back in time, and to film the actual campaign of Alexander crossing into India through Iran and Persia.

  

  Oliver Stone
  • Life
  • Time
  • My Life

• It doesn't matter whether I'm judged criminal. I have a great feeling of guilt - I have a feeling that I ran after Hitler like a wildfire without reason. If I can sacrifice my life to make something good, I'd gladly do it.

  

  Hans Frank
  • Life
  • Good
  • Great

• The fountain of death makes the still water of life play.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Life
  • Death
  • Water

• My whole life and my whole career, even through my music, I tell people: let's unify; let's show more love.

  

  DJ Khaled
  • People
  • Life
  • Music

• I am convinced that success is not measured by what you get out of life, but by what you give back.

  

  Jerry Moran
  • Life
  • Success

• Life is short. Ricky and I realize how lucky we were. We want to be together all the time.

  

  Christie Brinkley
  • Life
  • Time
  • Together

• I think what's good is that men are now realizing that life is not a buffet where you just get to pick and choose whatever you want.

  

  Phoebe Robinson
  • Life
  • Good
  • Men

• Why do you think the fans like us - why they prefer our street raps over all that phony stuff out there? Because we're telling the real story of what it's like living in places like Compton. We're giving them reality. We're like reporters. We give them the truth.

  

  Eric Lynn Wright
  • Real
  • Why
  • Truth

• It is only when it takes the form of physical addiction that sex is evil. It is also evil when it manifests itself as a way of satisfying the lust for power or the climber's craving for position and social distinction.

  

  Aldous Huxley
  • Power
  • Evil
  • Sex

• I've been doing the 'Sherman's Lagoon' strip for about 18 years, and I was a political cartoonist before that for my hometown paper in Alexandria, Va.

  

  Jim Toomey
  • Political

• My teachings are easy to understand and easy to put into practice. Yet your intellect will never grasp them, and if you try to practice them, you'll fail. My teachings are older than the world. How can you grasp their meaning? If you want to know me, look inside your heart.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Heart
  • Practice
  • Meaning

• The measure of a conversation is how much mutual recognition there is in it; how much shared there is in it. If you're talking about what's in your own head, or without thought to what people looking and listening will feel, you might as well be in a room talking to yourself.

  

  Dylan Moran
  • People
  • Listening

• If you can find a way to confound people's prejudices, restore the humanity of people, individuals, you restore them to life.

  

  Jon Lee Anderson
  • Life
  • Humanity
  • Prejudices