Allen Wheelis Quotes

Nothing guarantees our freedom. Deny it often enough and one day it will be gone, and we'll not know how or when.

Allen Wheelis

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• I will never sign to a major record label again. If, by some mega fluke, a record of mine looked like it might break big, I'd try and do it via an indie or somehow license it. I'm not having my music owned by those corporate bastards again.

  

  Malcolm Wilson
  • Music
  • Try
  • Again

• In the investment business, you must expect to be wrong.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Business
  • You
  • Investment

• I could not disobey the will of the Catalan parliament.

  

  Carles Puigdemont
  • Will
  • Parliament
  • Disobey

• But the issue is not only life and death but our existence before God and our being judged by him. All of us were sinners before him and worthy of condemnation.

  

  Hans Urs von Balthasar
  • Life
  • God
  • Death

• Trivializing the Holocaust is the last thing I want to do.

  

  Hans Haacke
  • Want
  • Last
  • Holocaust

• Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas, there music is sublimely strong.

  

  Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • Music
  • Strong
  • Spiritual

• The Bible never tells us what Jesus looked like, and in the earliest surviving paintings of him, he is sometimes depicted as short-haired, sometimes as beardless, with no authoritative version winning out over the others. Yet around 400 A.D., all of the other competing images were replaced by the long-haired, bearded Jesus we know today.

  

  Ian Caldwell
  • Long
  • Today
  • Jesus

• Every single unfortunate thing that happens, including, for instance, the murder of my parents, I am responsible for. I am responsible for being the son of two people who got murdered. I didn't cause their murder. But if I'm suffering because of it, it's my karma that I have manifested in this lifetime in this particular set of circumstances.

  

  Patrick Duffy
  • People
  • Parents
  • Single

• Class struggle: external peace, international solidarity, peace among peoples. This is the sacred slogan of international socialist democracy that liberates nations.

  

  Karl Liebknecht
  • Peace
  • Democracy
  • Struggle

• It's funny how things change slowly, until the day we realize they've changed completely.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Funny
  • Change
  • Day

• Simple logic dictates that if you cannot even conceive the possibility of leaving a negotiation, then it is preferable never to enter one.

  

  Yanis Varoufakis
  • Simple
  • Leaving
  • Logic

• In both law and politics, I think the essential battle is the meta-battle of framing the narrative.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Law
  • Politics
  • Battle

• In your teens, you get the physical puberty, and between 28 and 32, mental puberty. It does make you feel differently.

  

  Kate Bush
  • You
  • Feel
  • Mental

• We don't believe other people's experiences can tell us all that much about our own. I think this is an illusion of uniqueness.

  

  Daniel Gilbert
  • People
  • Believe
  • Think

• They say I'm a conservative, but I consider myself I true liberal.

  

  Walt Disney
  • True

• The Farmer will never be happy again;He carries his heart in his boots;For either the rain is destroying his grainOr the drought is destroying his roots.

  

  A. P. Herbert
  • Heart
  • Happy
  • Rain

• Being as we know it, the world as we come upon it, stands before us as otherness, remoteness. For all our efforts to exploit or comprehend it, it remains evasive, mysteriously immune. Being is unbelievable.

  

  Abraham Joshua Heschel
  • World

• Individuality of expression is the beginning and end of all art.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Art
  • Beginning

• My advice to female directors is not to wait until you feel like your ideas have been pre-certified or until you think you've gotten some approval for them. Then it's too late! Follow your gut. That's hard to do, but the only way to be original.

  

  Abigail Disney
  • Think
  • Ideas
  • Advice

• The first sign of whether Obama is serious about confronting the climate crisis will be revealed by how he organizes the White House.

  

  Jeff Goodell
  • House
  • Serious

• I try to give the media as many confusing images as I can to retain my freedom. What's real is for my children and the people I live with.

  

  Sting The Police
  • People
  • Live
  • Children

• And the whole world, the whole world that believes in freedom, whether you're talking about personal freedom, economic freedom, religious freedom, they look to the United States for leadership; and you're part of that leadership.

  

  Don Nickles
  • World
  • Freedom
  • Religious

• The game of football, especially in the NFL, is all about situations, and coming out on the big end of that stick.

  

  Ndamukong Suh
  • Game
  • Football

• Nothing guarantees our freedom. Deny it often enough and one day it will be gone, and we'll not know how or when.

  

  Allen Wheelis
  • Freedom
  • Often
  • Deny