Walker Percy Quotes
Losing hope is not so bad. There's something worse: losing hope and hiding it from yourself.
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It's strange but I suppose I'm one of those senior players now and I'll be helping the young players as much as I can.
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And then the conditions of safety - or lack of safety - for teachers in public schools, and the disparity between public schools and private schools is shameful.
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The victory of the working people over the exploiters and slave holders is at the same time the victorious struggle for liberation by the German people.
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I live in a Mobile Home - I've never had a house, except once; I rented a log cabin.
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Golf is not easy.
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It's no easy task to either make money online as a publisher or to advertise your product in a world where attention is so fleeting and divided.
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In the world of language, or in other words in the world of art and liberal education, religion necessarily appears as mythology or as Bible.
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An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
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Making music is fantastic.
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I would never go to a gym. How could I do it? So I tried to do it in my house and it doesn't work.
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Whatever requires an undue amount of thought or trouble or involves a large expenditure of effort and causes our whole life to revolve, as it were, around solicitude for the flesh must be avoided by Christians.
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What is this world? A mere curl of smoke for the wind to scatter.
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Whatever you think of Trump, I think most people would agree he is impulsive, and we certainly have an impulsive leader in North Korea in Kim Jong-un. That's an unholy combination.
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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.
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You need a great idea, but then you've got to carry it through. If you get it right, you're going to be a critical success. But not everyone who works hard gets it right, or has the success they deserve: there's an element of luck.
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I think in the bullpen you can tell during your warmups, if you have a good feel for it. But anything can happen once you get into a game. Sometimes you just wind up throwing it better than ever before one day without knowing why.
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What I enjoy most is that every day I get to play a new character.
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I feel like that's so ingrained in so many children that you are so confined and repressed growing up that, anything you do, you have to rebel against it at some point.
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Today's terrorism is not the product of a traditional history of anarchism, nihilism, or fanaticism. It is instead the contemporary partner of globalization.
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Clive Owen would be a fantastic James Bond. Any man who does it will have to weigh his odds - whether he can get in and get out.
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I have always lived according to my conscience, and my past is clean.
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Let us recollect that peace or war will not always be left to our option; that however moderate or unambitious we may be, we cannot count upon the moderation, or hope to extinguish the ambition of others.
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Losing hope is not so bad. There's something worse: losing hope and hiding it from yourself.
