Walker Percy Quotes

There is no pain on this earth like seeing the same woman look at another man the way she once looked at you.

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• The world is always in movement.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • World
  • Nature
  • Always

• For me, it's always been about preparation, and the more prepared I can be each week, the less pressure I feel and the more confident I am. As your confidence grows, it's only natural that the pressure you feel diminishes.

  

  Aaron Rodgers
  • Confidence
  • Preparation

• Commitment and credibility go hand in hand.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Hand
  • Commitment
  • Go

• I would love to do some theater.

  

  Caitriona Balfe
  • Love
  • Theater
  • Some

• When I talk to people in need, they tell me they want to hope; they are eager for opportunity; they are ready for better days. And I can tell you that every time their hopes are disappointed, all nations lose.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • People
  • Time
  • Hope

• I don't like to Google myself. I try and avoid it whenever I can.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • Myself
  • Try
  • I Can

• After the second and final time that I got hugely fat in my life and when I lost that weight six or seven years ago, I pretty much decided that I was going to stay in decent shape for the rest of my life.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Life
  • Time
  • Pretty

• If you want to put out a million CDs and sell them and get them played on the radio, and even videos, or whatever, if that still exists, that kind of muscle can only come from a label like Columbia.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • Want
  • Kind
  • Radio

• There is a natural progression to 'Lost,' and as the story goes forward, it's going to change. It's not a static story. The franchise of 'Lost' is not characters sitting on a beach.

  

  Carlton Cuse
  • Change
  • Lost
  • Story

• If a strong government finds that it can, with impunity, destroy a weak people, then the hour has struck for that weak people to appeal to the League of Nations to give its judgment in all freedom. God and history will remember your judgment.

  

  Haile Selassie
  • People
  • God
  • Remember

• My hands, my feet, I throw my whole body to say all that is within me.

  

  Mahalia Jackson
  • Body
  • Hands
  • Feet

• I choose to focus on the positive.

  

  Halima Aden
  • Focus
  • Positive
  • Choose

• I am not ever in the business of making anyone feel bad.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Business
  • Bad
  • Feel

• I started out doing musicals.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Doing
  • Started
  • Musicals

• I faced quite a few challenging times, and in front of those, I was more positive than some people not facing those conditions. I'm actually of the belief now that it is that struggle that offers you that open-hearted hope.

  

  Keinan Abdi Warsame
  • People
  • Hope
  • Positive

• I love coloring books. I keep some by my bed.

  

  Karen Black
  • Books
  • Keep
  • Some

• The Dalai Lama can claim the sanction of the Buddha, who is said to have altered his teachings in order to reach a diverse audience.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Audience
  • Said
  • Reach

• Time, you old gypsy man, will you not stay, put up your caravan just for one day?

  

  Ralph Hodgson
  • Up
  • Time
  • Man

• It’s weird that there are so many people at Harvard who do amazing things outside the classroom. It just so happens that people like to watch what I do.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • People
  • Amazing
  • Weird

• And you can't make a mistake when you are reading the Torah, so you have men standing around who will correct you if you are reading it incorrectly.

  

  Jami Gertz
  • Men
  • Reading
  • Mistake

• We run on the beach some days, and others, we run hills behind the gym. We also do several hours of grappling each week as mixed with some intense cardio in the ring.

  

  Chuck Liddell
  • Beach
  • Gym

• I was forced to lie to my father by doctors and relatives. I made that choice and agreed with them, and I will never, ever get over it. If I hear a lie in my life with my children, with my wife, my work, my audiences, I want to annihilate myself, vaporize myself, and wipe myself off the face of the earth.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Life
  • Work
  • Children

• How can our hearts not break? How can we hold our tears? How can we bear the pain of losing those loving children and their guardians, who were slain in Newtown, Conn.? Why can't we face the reality of our times and restrict deranged people from having these destructive powers?

  

  Radhanath Swami
  • People
  • Children
  • Why

• There is no pain on this earth like seeing the same woman look at another man the way she once looked at you.

  

  Walker Percy
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  • Earth
  • Pain