Sufjan Stevens Quotes

I’ve never known a man who loved me.

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• I played competitive golf all my life. Then all of a sudden, when I quit playing the game, I've got all this spare time and this energy. And certainly I wasn't ready to pack up my bags and go sit in front of the television with a shawl on.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• Brave men do not gather by thousands to torture and murder a single individual, so gagged and bound he cannot make even feeble resistance or defense.

  

  Ida B. Wells
  • Men
  • Single
  • Brave

• I breathe martial arts every day of my life.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Life
  • Day
  • My Life

• I've learned about ice water in the morning - when you wake up tired, or you're jet lagged and you've been flying and your skin is dry, or you have puffy eyes - the ice water really helps cool the face down and helps circulation.

  

  Barbara Fialho
  • Up
  • Eyes
  • Water

• I've had much nastier things said about me in the British press than in the Bosnian press.

  

  Paddy Ashdown
  • Me
  • Things
  • Said

• So far, Vancouver is my favorite relocation city. It feels like home. Parts of it remind me of the east coast. It's very clean. The food is great. And the people are lovely. Not that I didn't love working in other glamorous locations like Downey, Detroit, Cleveland or Bulgaria... but, damn, it is fun to be Canadian.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • People
  • Food
  • Favorite

• The first aspect of a business that you need to make it work well is money. Once the money aspect is flowing, you can freely work on other aspects.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Work
  • Money
  • Business

• I've been getting pulled from newspapers for my entire career.

  

  Garry Trudeau
  • Career
  • Been
  • Getting

• It's what great artists do. They suffer and feel more within the human condition than others. They're not better for that, just more sensitive, and there's a burden to that.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Great
  • Human
  • Better

• With the Internet and social media being a huge part of today's culture, I think it's super important to promote staying smart online.

  

  G. Hannelius
  • Important
  • Today
  • Culture

• I've had some threaten not to give Communion to me, even though they don't know my position, just because I'm a Democrat. I've had cardinals refuse to shake my hand because I'm a Democrat.

  

  Bart Stupak
  • Know
  • Me
  • Hand

• If you leave your wife and you don't ever contact her again, that says something about how you felt about the marriage.

  

  H. G. Bissinger
  • Wife
  • Marriage
  • Felt

• 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

• Anti-Semitism has no historical, political and certainly no philosophical origins. Anti-Semitism is a disease.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Political
  • Philosophical
  • Anti-Semitism

• To commit a successful murder must be very much like bringing off a conjuring trick.

  

  Agatha Christie

• The criteria of art are the imponderable, the immeasurable.

  

  Elfriede Jelinek
  • Art

• A cocktail done right can really show your guests that you care.

  

  Danny Meyer
  • Done

• Speech is too often not the art of concealing thought, but of quite stifling and suspending thought, so that there is none to conceal.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Art
  • Thought
  • Speech

• A Positive Mental Attitude is the right mental attitude. What is the right mental attitude? It is most often comprised of the "plus" characteristics symbolized by such words as faith, integrity, hope, optimism, courage, initiative, generosity, tolerance, tact, kindliness, and good common sense. A person with positive mental attitude aims for high goals and constantly strives to achieve them.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Good
  • High
  • Hope

• My line of vision was such that the creature filled the moon like a fossil. It had gone there, I thought, to live and die, for there, of all places, was its small definition made whole and eternal

  

  N. Scott Momaday
  • Live
  • Small
  • Die

• The Yogi conquers the body by the practice of asanas, making the body a fit vehicle for the spirit. The Yogi knows that it is a necessary vehicle for the spirit, for a soul without a body is like a bird deprived of its power to fly.

  

  Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
  • Power
  • Soul
  • Practice

• The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.

  

  Henry David Thoreau
  • Men

• I’ve never known a man who loved me.

  

  Sufjan Stevens
  • Men
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