Barry McDonald Quotes

Show me a dog who still cannot perform a task after it has been trained over and over again, and I'll tell you who the slow learner is.

Barry McDonald

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• No group of people has been more unjustly maligned in the twentieth century than the Puritans. As a result, we approach the Puritans with an enormous baggage of culturally ingrained prejudice.

  

  Leland Ryken
  • People

• I have nothing in my life besides my work. I am obsessed with it. I leave my house only when I'm forced to.

  

  Asia Argento
  • Life
  • Work
  • House

• It has been said that the body is like an automobile - it's yours, but it isn't you.

  

  Doris Day
  • Like
  • Body
  • Automobile

• You ask me about the past, you ask me about the future, the only way to be happy is to be living right now.

  

  Yvon Chouinard
  • Happy
  • Future
  • Past

• I'm always active in trying to educate people when it comes to eating animal products, testing on animals, and the health benefits of being vegan, although I'm probably not the best person to be talking about the latter at the moment.

  

  Daniel Johns Silverchair
  • People
  • Trying
  • Health

• Battles are followed by years of famine.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Years
  • Battles
  • Famine

• The greatest act of faith takes place when a man finally decides that he is not God.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • God
  • Decides
  • Act Of Faith

• The questions you ask consistently will create either enervation or enjoyment, indignation or inspiration, misery or magic. Ask the questions that will uplift your spirit and push you along the path of human excellence

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • Spirit
  • Inspiration
  • Magic

• God loves us too much to pretend our sin isn't there. Sin is a cancer and Christ the surgeon. True prayer signs the consent form.

  

  Mark Hart Crowded House
  • Prayer
  • Cancer
  • Christ

• The melancholy have the best sense of the comic, the opulent often the best sense of the rustic, the dissolute often the best sense of the moral, and the doubter often the best sense of the religious.

  

  Soren Kierkegaard
  • Religious
  • Melancholy
  • Doubter

• You know something, man? Some day I'm gonna be walking up the street one way and you're gonna be coming down the other way, and we're gonna pass each other and I'm gonna say 'Hello, best white band in the world and you're gonna say 'Hello, best colored band in the world.

  

  Chick Webb
  • World
  • White band
  • Colored band

• Oh! if people were but acquainted with piety, they would not fear it so much, or give it so unattractive a character; 'tis the balm of life, and perhaps in the world it is believed to consist of bitterness, harshness, uncouthness; but, take my word for it, nothing is more gentle, more yielding, more loving than a pious soul.

  

  Eugenie de Guerin
  • People
  • Character
  • Soul

• The uglier, older, meaner, iller, poorer I get, the more I wish to take my revenge by doing brilliant color, well arranged, resplendent.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Wish
  • Color
  • Wells

• I practice really hard, every day. I started that about 13 or 14 years ago; it's a discipline now. But the writing is a whole other thing. It'll come from handling a guitar, mostly; thinking up little guitar riffs. I was born and raised a rock 'n' roll guy, and that's the rock 'n' roll ethic, at least through my experience.

  

  John Fogerty Creedence Clearwater Revival
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Guy

• I eat before I feel hungry. I know that when you order food or shop on an empty stomach, you always tend to over-eat, over-order, or over-shop. So I always eat slightly before I'm famished.

  

  R. Madhavan
  • Food
  • Hungry
  • Famished

• Show me a dog who still cannot perform a task after it has been trained over and over again, and I'll tell you who the slow learner is.

  

  Barry McDonald
  • Perform
  • Trained
  • Learner