Trip Lee (William Lee Barefield III) Quotes

The question is not whether or not you will face trials. The question is, how will you respond when you do?

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• When theology erodes and organization crumbles, when the institutional framework of religion begins to break up, the search for a direct experience which people can feel to be religious facilitates the rise of cults.

  

  Daniel Bell
  • People
  • Up
  • Experience

• When I first started in film, I was terrified of the camera.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Film
  • First
  • Camera

• An individual ant, even though it has a brain about a millionth of a size of a human being's, can learn a maze; the kind we use is a simple rat maze in a laboratory. They can learn it about one-half as fast as a rat.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Simple
  • Brain
  • Learn

• Have you ever walked along a shoreline, only to have your footprints washed away? That's what Alzheimer's is like. The waves erase the marks we leave behind, all the sand castles. Some days are better than others.

  

  Pat Summitt
  • Better
  • Waves
  • Sand

• If a State has reliable scientific information that demonstrates that a warning is needed for a particular food, then in the interest of public health, it should share that information with the FDA and petition for a new national standard.

  

  Nathan Deal
  • Food
  • Health
  • Information

• The ability to convince people of the wackiest notions - and both parties can do it - it's part of the dumbing down of America that's really highly problematic.

  

  Gary Ackerman
  • People
  • America
  • Down

• Church attendance rates among white Americans without a college education have dropped pretty significantly. People with college degrees are more likely to go to church than people without college degrees among the white working class.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • People
  • Pretty
  • Education

• I actually consider myself as totally privileged to be able to serve science and medicine in a global fashion, because science and medicine know no boundaries.

  

  Magdi Yacoub
  • Science
  • Fashion
  • Myself

• The plan shows that the twenty million people in the German democratic Republic and in the democratic sector of Berlin think only of peace, and that they are working for freedom and peaceful prosperity.

  

  Walter Ulbricht
  • People
  • Freedom
  • Peace

• When I was at school, I wanted to join the army. At college, I started acting in college plays, and it became a kind of addiction. I was very shy when I was at school, but the plays seemed to give voice to my feelings.

  

  Om Puri
  • School
  • College
  • Voice

• When I was first introduced to Buddhism in a high school World Studies class, I dismissed it out of hand. This was during the hedonistic days of the late '60s, and this spiritual path seemed so grim with its concern about attachment and, apparently, anti-pleasure.

  

  Tara Brach
  • World
  • School
  • High

• In this country, we rise or fall as one nation, as one people. Let's resist the temptation to fall back on the same partisanship and pettiness and immaturity that has poisoned our politics for so long.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Long
  • Country

• Keeping house is as unpleasant and filthy as coal mining, and the pay's a lot worse.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • House

• Studio 54 made Halloween in Hollywood look like a PTA meeting.

  

  Lorna Luft
  • Halloween

• I think the idea that women can stand up and be strong and still be seen as beautiful and sexual is kind of cool, and I would like to see more of that.

  

  Katie Aselton
  • Up
  • Women
  • Beautiful

• Ulta is a great place for our vendor partners to experience growth.

  

  Mary Dillon
  • Great
  • Experience
  • Growth

• Some people aren't touchy-feely, but I grew up in a family where you'd walk into the family room and there'd be five people on the couch with an arm here, an arm there, everyone scratching and taking turns.

  

  Chris O'Donnell
  • People
  • Up
  • Family

• I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve. But if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die.

  

  Nelson Mandela
  • Live
  • Together
  • Hope

• Marriage...is the union of two people of different sexes with a view to the mutual possession of each other's sexual attributes for the duration of their lives.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Marriage
  • Union
  • Sexual Attributes

• I don't think a wise thing at this moment is for Israel to launch a military attack on Iran.

  

  William Hague
  • Thinking
  • Moments
  • Military

• But, as we've seen over the last several months, the people in this country are very dissatisfied with the direction that this administration is taking this country. And what we heard last night was absolutely the ignoring of that fact. It was: We're going to continue with this agenda. In fact, we're going to double down on healthcare.

  

  Eric Cantor
  • People
  • Country
  • Night

• If we ask a vague question, such as, 'What is poetry?' we expect a vague answer, such as, 'Poetry is the music of words,' or 'Poetry is the linguistic correction of disorder.'

  

  A. R. Ammons
  • Music
  • Words
  • Question

• You’re in total isolation. And you don’t know how long you’re going to be there, but you truly believe they can do anything to you. There’s no way to even question it. You’re not protected by anything. Why am I here? Your mind is very uncertain of time. You become like mad. It’s very hard for anyone. Even for people who have strong beliefs.

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • People
  • Time
  • Believe

• The question is not whether or not you will face trials. The question is, how will you respond when you do?

  

  Trip Lee
  • Question
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