Peter Straub Quotes

Fear and I were old buddies, despite my best efforts to the contrary.

Peter Straub

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• The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

  

  Ovid
  • May
  • Ability
  • Will

• That's what everybody calls me, 'Cheat Code,' because they just throw the ball up to me.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Me
  • Ball
  • Everybody

• Gossip is when you hear something you like about someone you don't.

  

  Earl Wilson
  • You
  • Someone
  • Gossip

• In case of doubt, do a little more than you have to.

  

  Warren Mitchell
  • You
  • Doubt
  • Little

• I always like to sing along to some depressing, angry Morrissey.

  

  Lara Stone
  • Like
  • Always
  • Angry

• We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Help
  • Earth
  • Know

• I did a lot of stunts, so the harness work isn't foreign to me either.

  

  Victoria Pratt
  • Work
  • Foreign
  • Stunts

• I love the crowds at festivals because they're so chilled out.

  

  Gabrielle Aplin
  • Love
  • Crowds
  • Festivals

• I became fascinated with the concept of speak no, see no, hear no evil. And - and the actual depiction of three wise monkeys. And I began collecting it over the years. And I kind of figured that I might be the - the fourth monkey, the feel no evil monkey.

  

  Mackenzie Phillips
  • Evil
  • Wise
  • Speak

• History, whether sacred or profane, hides her teaching from those who study her through coloured glasses. She only reveals truth to those who look through the cold clear medium of passionless inquiry, who seek the Truth without determining first the masquerade in which alone they will receive it.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Truth
  • History
  • Study

• When I talk to Chicagoans who live in our most violence-prone neighborhoods, they do not hate the police. In fact, they tell me they want more cops and fewer gangs. They do not want more officers in cars just driving through their communities. They want officers on the beat in their neighborhoods.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • Hate
  • Violence
  • Police

• Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.

  

  E. B. White
  • Men
  • Luck
  • Presence

• I work so I don't need to make rent through my songs, and I think if more people engaged with music without needing it to provide for their welfare, you're not beholden to anyone.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • People
  • Work
  • Music

• My kids are in school and in all these clubs - chess club, fashion club, you name it. When my dad came home from work, it was late, and when he left, it was early in the morning. On my days off, I'm still taking my kids to school and picking them up. I do what I have to do to keep that relationship.

  

  Omar Dorsey
  • Up
  • Work
  • School

• When my dad, Tommy Tucker Kelly, was about six, he started out with his dad on 'The Black and White Minstrel' Shows.

  

  Rachel Tucker
  • Black
  • Dad
  • Black-and-white

• There will always be women who say, 'She doesn't represent me.' In retrospect, these things are gifts, because it forces me to step up and defend what I'm doing.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Up
  • Women
  • She

• The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Children
  • Faces
  • Animals

• I love the smell of a real Christmas tree - also, my mum's Christmas pudding with brandy sauce.

  

  Mallory Jansen
  • Tree
  • Christmas
  • Smell

• While the word charity connotes a single act of giving, justice speaks to right living, of aligning oneself with the world in a way that sustains rather than exploits the rest of creation. Justice is not a gift; it’s a lifestyle, a commitment to the Jewish concept of tikkun olam—‘repairing the world.’

  

  Rachel Grace Held
  • World
  • Giving
  • Single

• Those who love to be feared fear to be loved.

  

  Saint Francis de Sales
  • Love
  • Fear
  • For Her

• I become quite inhibited particularly when I do comedy, I won't - there's a whole thing of allowing an audience in and if you - if you cover yourself with a mask of, kind of, severity, which I'm quite good at doing, that's masking fear of course, then people feel shut out.

  

  Ian McLeod
  • People
  • Good
  • Fear

• The human mind is never better disposed to gratitude and attachment than when softened by fear.

  

  Charles James
  • Mind
  • Fear
  • Gratitude

• Fear and I were old buddies, despite my best efforts to the contrary.

  

  Peter Straub
  • Fear