Joseph Sobran Quotes

Freedom has ceased to be a birthright; it has come to mean whatever we are still permitted to do.

Joseph Sobran

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• The marketability, the success of a book, ultimately rests with whether or not people will find the concept/characters/title/cover appealing.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • People
  • Book
  • Success

• Once you avoid the things that accelerate aging like smoking, obesity, excessive alcohol consumption, and excessive sun exposure, you've done about as much as you can to influence your aging process.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • Done
  • Sun
  • Influence

• I'm a decent tennis player. Good backhand.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Good
  • Player
  • Tennis

• If you want to read and you want to draw, that helps you to express yourself.

  

  Quentin Blake
  • Want
  • You
  • Yourself

• In 1965, when great young white artists in the English-speaking world were successfully re-channeling hillbilly and black music - you know Bob Dylan, Ray Davies, Pete Townsend, Keith Richards - they didn't get any money at first. They were all broke.

  

  Iggy Pop
  • World
  • Great
  • Music

• Successful ventures in business or philanthropy are built around great teams who can help us overcome tremendous challenges - and have the right experiences and relationships to do so.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Great
  • Business
  • Help

• I was not really as good as I should have been.

  

  Eddie Albert
  • Good
  • Should
  • Been

• Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Science
  • Natural
  • Fact

• I really haven't liked the commercialization of mountaineering, particularly of Mt. Everest. By paying $65,000, you can be conducted to the summit by a couple of good guides.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • Good
  • You
  • Couple

• Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Man
  • Alone
  • Solitude

• Obviously, you need talent to do well in your sport, but I think hard work goes a long way. You need to be lucky within the sport too, though. In badminton, you can benefit from good draws and people getting injured.

  

  Rajiv Ouseph
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• Bordeaux would be naive not to recognize that Robert Parker was driving the brand equity. If the next generation doesn't care about Chateau Pichon-Lalande, then you have a problem.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • Problem
  • Care
  • Driving

• I do not believe we should shut down the federal government.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Believe
  • Government
  • Down

• I cut up loads. I always want everything shorter, shorter, shorter.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Up
  • Want
  • Always

• I think travel is probably the downside of playing professional golf, but you've got to do it.

  

  Karrie Webb
  • Travel
  • Professional
  • Golf

• It's hard to write haiku. I write long, silly Indian poems.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • Long
  • Write
  • Silly

• When songs make me wanna throw up, it makes me ashamed to even be in the same genre as those songs.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Songs
  • Ashamed
  • Genre

• I always have said from the beginning of my career that I was going for the 'Geek Trifecta' because I'm such a total geek. I want to be in everything that has to do with the things that I enjoyed when I was a kid, which was 'Battlestar Galactica,' and being in 'Big Bang Theory,' and being in video games.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Want
  • Career
  • Beginning

• Freedom is not a reward or a decoration that is celebrated with champagne...Oh no! It's a...long distance race, quite solitary and very exhausting.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Freedom
  • Reward
  • Solitary

• Back in the day, I was definitely a child of alternative radio.

  

  Verite
  • Day
  • Child
  • Radio

• Art can be a medium for people to discover universal spirit, with imagery not isolated to one particular wisdom path, but pointing to the underlying truth that they all transmit.

  

  Alex Grey
  • People
  • Art
  • Truth

• Judge not the Lord by feeble sense, But trust Him for His grace; Behind a frowning providence He hides a smiling face. His purposes will ripen fast, Unfolding every hour;The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flow’r. Blind unbelief is sure to err And scan His work in vain; God is His own interpreter, And He will make it plain.

  

  William Cowper
  • Purpose
  • Sweet
  • Grace

• Blowers also loaned Duncan thousands of dollars, ... During this period, Blowers had almost daily telephone contacts with his business partner, with Duncan, or both.

  

  Eric Johnson
  • Dollars
  • Telephone
  • Blowers

• Freedom has ceased to be a birthright; it has come to mean whatever we are still permitted to do.

  

  Joseph Sobran
  • Freedom
  • To Do
  • Permitted