Hayden Fry (John Hayden Fry) Quotes

You can't control people. You must understand them. You have to know where they're coming from, their beliefs and values, what turns them off, what they're against.

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• With the monstrous weapons man already has, humanity is in danger of being trapped in this world by its moral adolescents.

  

  Omar N. Bradley
  • World
  • Man
  • Humanity

• When you're trying to bring the streets into rap to prove a point, then you already lost. You separate the two, and that ain't to be played with. You've got people that lost their lives and people that are doing real time. If we gon' make music, let's just make music.

  

  Young Jeezy
  • People
  • Time
  • Music

• I wrote 'White Teeth' in the late nineties. I didn't really feel trepidatious about it. It was a different time.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Time
  • Different
  • White

• You only can rest when have the truth, even when it's horrible.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Truth
  • You
  • Rest

• In other times, I could stand here and give this kind of exposition on the beliefs of the Democratic Party and that would be enough. But today that is not enough. People want more.

  

  Barbara Jordan
  • People
  • Today
  • Party

• There have been times I've planted stuff in songs where four years later I'll be singing it from a subconscious, kind of chameleon little lizard mind... and at a certain moment, all of a sudden, I'll hear a line from a different vantage point and it'll change its meaning. It's something I wrote but it changed because I did.

  

  Feist
  • Different
  • Mind
  • Change

• It's very questionable, and we will pursue every factor, every element, every second of the timeline, of the final hours of Maurice's life. We will pursue that relentlessly. That will be our quest from now on.

  

  Barry Gibb Bee Gees
  • Life
  • Will
  • Now

• We will do everything within our power to protect Floridians from unlawful debt collection practices that often employ scare tactics to manipulate individuals.

  

  Pam Bondi
  • Power
  • Will
  • Debt

• People in general have a preconceived idea of what prison is, from seeing documentaries or whatever.

  

  Laura Prepon
  • People
  • Prison
  • Seeing

• I am not discouraged. I really am not. I do not despair for our country. I never do. I believe tonight, as I always have, that the essential decency and compassion and common sense of the American people will prevail. And so I say to you and to others around the world, whether they wish us well or ill: Do not underestimate us Americans.

  

  Jimmy Carter
  • People
  • World
  • Believe

• There is nothing so easily made offensive as good reasoning; and men of clear logical minds, if not gifted at the same time with tact, make more enemies than men with bad hearts and unsound understandings.

  

  Arthur Helps
  • Time
  • Good
  • Men

• The start is crucial, really, but the entire race is crucial. There is not any room for error. If there is one bad stroke, you regularly lose the race.

  

  Mark de Jonge
  • Bad

• I just try to play as hard as I can every possession. If you're aware and you're high-energy, the ball will eventually bounce your way and you'll be able to make plays.

  

  Jeremy Lin
  • High
  • Energy

• I could have carried on in comedy. But my life was dark.

  

  Charlotte Rampling
  • Life
  • Comedy
  • Dark

• Don't live in the past. There's no point. You can't change anything. What a waste of time.

  

  Bob Newhart
  • Time
  • Live
  • Past

• When you're going for a joke, you're stuck out there if it doesn't work. There's nowhere to go. You've done the drum role and the cymbal clash and you're out on the end of the plank.

  

  Bob Newhart
  • Work
  • Done

• I close my eyes, then I drift away, into the magic night I softly say. A silent prayer, like dreamers do, then I fall asleep to dream my dreams of you.

  

  Roy Orbison
  • Dream
  • Night
  • Eyes

• We have a certain group of people in this country that seem to want to lock up our national treasures, our national parks, and cherished places and keep the public from enjoying them.

  

  Don Sherwood
  • People
  • Up
  • Country

• I think the main focus in America is - is basically greed.

  

  Adam Yauch The Beastie Boys
  • America
  • Focus
  • Greed

• I think life is more interesting when everybody's jumbled up together. When people separate out into cliques and things, it's okay, but it's a bit limiting. You can always learn things from other people. This is my theory.

  

  Jarvis Cocker Pulp
  • People
  • Interesting
  • Learn

• After it became clear that I was not going to graduate, I had this moment where I was like, 'I need to not sulk. I need to pursue - at least try - to pursue music. But if I don't try, I'm going to be a really bitter middle-aged lady working in a cubicle.'

  

  Kelela Mizanekristos
  • Music
  • Bitter

• Man's conquest of Nature turns out, in the moment of its consummation, to be Nature's conquest of Man.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Men
  • Nature
  • Wisdom

• It seems to be that loneliness is a small price to pay for peace and quiet.

  

  Bart Yates
  • Peace
  • Price
  • Loneliness

• You can't control people. You must understand them. You have to know where they're coming from, their beliefs and values, what turns them off, what they're against.

  

  Hayden Fry