Barry Long Quotes

The only way we can ever get through to the truth is by finding out what we are not. We do that by looking, by observation.

Barry Long

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• The direction of your focus is the direction your life will move. Let yourself move toward what is good, valuable, strong and true.

  

  Ralph Marston
  • Life
  • Good
  • True

• I've had the experience of having a book praised but then it doesn't sell. Or not praised but then it sells.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Experience
  • Book
  • Sell

• Spontaneity is what travel is all about.

  

  Zach Anner
  • Travel
  • About
  • Spontaneity

• It took me just three months to pick up Hindi. I guess I'm a fast learner when it comes to languages.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Fast
  • Languages
  • Pick

• We love a tale of heroes and villains and conflicts requiring a neat resolution.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Heroes
  • Conflicts
  • Tale

• What can you do? You're never going to be - I'm sure there are people out there who think Cindy Crawford isn't pretty.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • People
  • Think
  • Pretty

• It's hard to tell what an entire series is going to be based on the first few episodes, or even on the first season. And it's sad because you see great casts and good ideas that don't get that opportunity to grow and show what it could turn into.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Good
  • Great
  • Opportunity

• It is not often that idealism of student days finds adequate opportunity for expression in the later life of manhood.

  

  C. V. Raman
  • Life
  • Opportunity
  • Student

• My joy knows no bounds... I will devote all my energy and all the powers available to me to the service of Nigeria and humanity.

  Olusegun Obasanjo
  • Energy
  • Joy
  • Humanity

• Jeans fit the mature male one of two ways, both dirigible in nature. You make a public impression that's either Hindenburg or Goodyear blimp.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Nature
  • You
  • Jeans

• If Truman hadn't published 'Answered Prayers' in parts, he'd have had the drive to finish it. The peacocks took it away from him.

  

  Jack Dunphy
  • Him
  • Finish
  • Drive

• I really feel sorry for kids who aren't interested in history - recent history, either, because it is this that made us what we are.

  

  Barry Humphries
  • Kids
  • History
  • Feel

• I really think that as good of a job as you do as a writer, you're absolutely indebted to the actors that have to deliver that material.

  

  Carlton Cuse
  • Good
  • Job
  • Think

• Prophesy to the wind, to the wind only for only The wind will listen.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Wind

• The goal can never be reached unless a man makes his mind strong, and firmly resolves that he must realise God in this very birth, nay, this very moment.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • God
  • Mind
  • Strong

• We want freedom for our country, but not at the expense or exploitation of others, not us to degrade other countries…I want the freedom of my country so that other countries may learn something from my free country so that the resources of my country might be utilized for the benefit of mankind.

  

  Lal Bahadur Shastri
  • Country
  • May
  • Free

• Commuter - one who spends his lifeIn riding to and from his wife;A man who shaves and takes a trainAnd then rides back to shave again.

  

  E. B. White
  • Wife

• ‘…The senior Mr Denham’s,’ he said, with deadly Eastern realism, ‘will perhaps only be better in the grave.

  

  Anthony Burgess
  • Senior

• We are not spared death, but the power of death has been defeated. The grip of sin has been loosed. We are invited to share the victory, to follow the path of God back to life.

  

  Rachel Grace Held
  • Life
  • God
  • Power

• Genocide, the physical extinction of a people, is universally condemned, but ethnocide, the destruction of people's way of life, is not only not condemned, it's universally celebrated as part of a development strategy.

  

  Wade Davis
  • Development
  • Strategy
  • Genocide

• He who does not fear death cares naught for threats.

  

  Pierre Corneille
  • Death
  • Fear

• I could never be a career politician, because I believe in telling the truth.

  

  Jesse Ventura
  • Believe
  • Truth
  • Career

• It's always better to face the truth, no matter how uncomfortable, than to continue coddling a lie.

  

  Lou Holtz
  • Truth
  • Lying
  • Coaching

• The only way we can ever get through to the truth is by finding out what we are not. We do that by looking, by observation.

  

  Barry Long
  • Truth
  • Observation
  • Finding Out