Walker Percy Quotes

In this world, goodness is destined to be defeated.

Walker Percy

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• For me, writing a song, I sit down and the process doesn't really involve me thinking about the demographic of people I'm trying to hit or who I want to be able to relate to the song or what genre of music it falls under.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Music
  • Thinking

• The man for me is the cherry on the pie. But I'm the pie and my pie is good all by itself. Even if I don't have a cherry.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Good
  • Man
  • Me

• I've worked hard over the years, I've been injured and I've worked hard through it, and I've made it.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Years
  • Through
  • Over

• Incommensurables cannot be compared.

  

  Garrett Hardin
  • Cannot
  • Compared

• My dad's one of the funniest men in the world. I grew up with him making me laugh so much I'd beg him to stop.

  

  Rafe Spall
  • Up
  • World
  • Men

• A lot of labels are hiring a lot more accountants than people that know music.

  

  Taylor Hanson Hanson
  • People
  • Music
  • Know

• I really don't believe in magic.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Believe
  • Magic
  • Really

• All politicians should have 3 hats - one to throw into the ring, one to talk through, and one to pull rabbits out of if elected.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Talk
  • Ring
  • Rabbits

• The men and women of my generation are heirs to that great collective success which has been admired worldwide and of which we are so proud. It is now up to us to pass it on to the coming generations.

  

  Felipe VI of Spain
  • Up
  • Great
  • Men

• The first drama thing I really got stuck into was 'A Midsummer Night's Dream.' I played Puck. That's when I said, 'I want to be an actor.'

  

  Ed Speleers
  • Want
  • Dream
  • Night

• I remember, one day, I just printed out about a hundred CVs, and I was running around London. I was going to modeling agencies, temping agencies, anything. I was so desperate.

  

  Fleur East
  • Remember
  • Running
  • Day

• One of my earliest memories is of being about three and a half, climbing through the legs of a man who I didn't know was the famous actor, Patrick Magee.

  

  Samantha Bond
  • Man
  • Memories
  • Famous

• The Soviet Union was a very useful ally in the defeat of Nazi Germany.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • Defeat
  • Useful
  • Soviet

• Perhaps it would be better not to be a writer, but if you must, then write.

  

  J. B. Priestley
  • You
  • Better
  • Writer

• When I was in high school, I earned the pimple award and every other gross-out award.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • School
  • High
  • High School

• I can't stop people from writing imaginative stories about me entering politics.

  

  Vijay
  • People
  • Writing
  • Stop

• Working pretty much nonstop as an artist, the hardest thing is to know what to do with yourself when you have some time off. You struggle with yourself to take a vacation.

  

  Karen O
  • Time
  • Pretty
  • Struggle

• Do not get elated at any victory, for all such victory is subject to the will of God.

  

  Abu Bakr
  • God
  • Victory
  • Will

• I must be honest here; I don't think there's such a thing as 'unconventional' when it comes to YA. YA readers are the most open-minded in the literary world. They'll read anything.

  

  Rae Carson
  • World
  • Think
  • Open-minded

• I want my words and actions to be the quantification of my love. To make tangible the passions in my heart for the world and the people in it.

  

  Anis Mojgani
  • People
  • World
  • Heart

• It's such a diva thing, but I need one room for my suitcases and one for me.

  

  Christine McVie Fleetwood Mac

• At school I was always taller than the rest of my class, and because I was an only child, I was comfortable with adults but shy and awkward with other kids. I was quiet, bookish, and in spite of my size, hopeless at sports. In short, I was different. And even in the earliest grades, I got pounded for it.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Different
  • School
  • Kids

• The differences between the received wisdom, the standard version of events, and the facts on the ground may be subtle or they may be stark, even profound.

  

  William Finnegan
  • May
  • Facts
  • Profound

• In this world, goodness is destined to be defeated.

  

  Walker Percy
  • World
  • Goodness
  • Defeated