Mike McCurry Quotes
In Barack Obama, Democrats have put forth a man of strong religious faith who is comfortable connecting his spiritual life to his public role as a policymaker.
Quotes to Explore
-
Try and understand what part you have to play in the world in which you live. There's more to life than you know and it's all happening out there. Discover what part you can play and then go for it.
-
I knew that the artists that I loved the most had something about them that was very unfiltered and very rough.
-
My work in the House of Representatives, at this time in my life, is completed. It is time to return home.
-
I haven't reported my missing credit card to the police because whoever stole it is spending less than my wife.
-
I didn't know what was going through my mind.
-
I'm honestly not the kind of person who wants to step up to a podium, test the microphone and be like, 'Hey, I'm homosexual and this is who I am, hear me roar.' That's not who I am.
-
It was Nate Monaster who encouraged me to be a writer.
-
The characters I've portrayed may outwardly be quite different from one another, but I've found that they're also intrinsically linked.
-
The individualists stare into each other's eyes and yet deny each other's existence. We walk in circles, so limited by our own anxieties that we can no longer distinguish between true and false, between the gangster's whim and the purest ideal.
-
You can't change anyone else, but people do change in relationship to your change.
-
The government is so out of control. It is so bloated and infested with fraud and deceit and corruption and abuse of power.
-
There have never been so many women in the music industry, but they're doing ballads and pop. Where's the new Joan Jetts and the Wanda Jacksons and the Debbie Harrys, all these strong women? I wanna be the woman that rocks.
-
I love the Bible. I read it every day. I spend 10 hours a week studying it. It has affected my life in profound ways. I am inspired when I read it.
-
A million years went by quick.
-
Peace for us means the destruction of Israel. We are preparing for an all-out war, a war which will last for generations.
-
I was one man and I tackled a big railroad. I did the best I could.
-
Make a drawing. Start it all over again, trace it. Start it and trace it again.
-
I had a farm in Africa, at the foot of the Ngong Hills. The Equator runs across these highlands, a hundred miles to the North, and the farm lay at an altitude of over six thousand feet. In the day-time you felt that you had got high up, near to the sun, but the early mornings and evenings were limpid and restful, and the nights were cold.
-
We'll try to cooperate fully with the IRS, because, as citizens, we feel a strong patriotic duty not to go to jail.
-
Men who pray are, in reality, the only religious men, and it takes a full-measured man to pray.
-
When people think about the ark, they're always thinking about all the thousands of years of religious iconography of a ship with a bow and a deck, where Noah and the giraffes could walk around. In the actual written text it is basically described as a long, rectangular box.
-
Obviously after such a long gap, one itches to get back to the game and score big runs.
-
People want to see patterns in the world. It is how we evolved. We descended from those primates who were best at spotting the telltale pattern of a predator in the forest, or of food in the savannah. So important is this skill that we apply it everywhere, warranted or not.
-
In Barack Obama, Democrats have put forth a man of strong religious faith who is comfortable connecting his spiritual life to his public role as a policymaker.
