Balian of Ibelin Quotes

A new world. A better world. A kingdom of conscience...a kingdom of heaven.

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• Vinyl is democratic, as surely as the iPod is fascist. Vinyl is representational: It has a face. Two faces, in fact, to represent the dualism of human nature. Vinyl occupies physical space honestly, proud as a fat woman dancing.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • Nature
  • Space
  • Proud

• If your work requires you to travel, you will understand that there's no vacation destination like home.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • Work
  • Home
  • Travel

• As I always like to keep in mind about everything: Don't fight the trend.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Mind
  • Fight
  • Everything

• If you're governor of a state, and you have nothing to say when the president attacks the people that you represent, you are complicit.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • People
  • You
  • Nothing

• I played violin and got into that Suzuki program in the second grade.

  

  Adam Jones
  • Got
  • VIolin
  • Grade

• I don't believe in God, but I'm afraid of Him.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • God
  • Believe
  • Afraid

• People think of teachers who are born to teach, and you think of all these charismatic folks. Some of the most successful teachers are some of the least charismatic, interestingly. But they have a gift of figuring out what motivates people.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • People
  • Successful
  • Gift

• I'm addicted to the hotel life. It's humbling and fly at the same time.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Life
  • Time
  • Fly

• I was excited by the idea of playing a Nazi.

  

  Barbara Sukowa
  • Idea
  • Playing
  • Excited

• What reader wants to be told what attitude to strike?

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Attitude
  • Wants
  • Strike

• Am I bossy? Absolutely. I don't like to lose, and if I'm told 'no,' then I find another way to get my 'yes.' But I'm a loyal person.

  

  Naomi Campbell
  • Way
  • Find
  • Lose

• Black people have been fighting for basic citizenship rights since the inception of the country.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • Country
  • Black

• I don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Think

• And come he slow, or come he fast,It is but Death who comes at last.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Death

• I am almost convinced (quite contrary to opinion I started with) that species are not (it is like confessing a murder) immutable.

  

  Charles Darwin
  • Opinion

• When we surrender moral government to the courts, we have surrendered the very essence of freedom, we have surrendered its only real meaning-and we will not be free again until we get it back.

  

  Alan Keyes
  • Real
  • Free
  • Freedom

• God is love, I said, but art's the possibility of forms, and shadows are the source of identity.

  

  Ralph Ellison
  • God
  • Art
  • Identity

• It seems like there's a real world for new ideas in Philly.

  

  Lucy Dacus
  • World
  • Real

• I love any book that makes my family seem almost normal.

  

  Kathryn Harrison
  • Family
  • Book

• I was a high school senior and home alone one night with my younger brother. And a guy - gunman - kicked in our front door at our home in New Jersey and held the two of us captive. We escaped. He caught us again. We escaped again. So, a pretty horrific experience.

  

  James Comey
  • School
  • Home
  • Experience

• When you meet a man or woman who puts Jesus Christ first, knit that one to your soul.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Soul
  • Man
  • Jesus

• Increasingly, the balance between living in the world and not being of the world is becoming more delicate. Publications, radio, television, and the Internet have surrounded us with worldliness. . . . We are fortunate to have been blessed with a special power to direct us in making important decisions between right and wrong.

  

  L. Tom Perry
  • World
  • Important
  • Power

• I was doing a tour of the 'Batman' live stage production, and I challenged the cast to join me to run. One time, we were running in Switzerland just before Christmas, and it was heavy snow. Another time, we were running down the Seine in Paris on Christmas Day, and we all had Santa hats on.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Time
  • Live
  • Running

• A new world. A better world. A kingdom of conscience...a kingdom of heaven.

  

  Balian of Ibelin
  • World
  • Heaven
  • Conscience