Barry Neil Kaufman Quotes

Worrying about the future is like trying to eat the hole in a doughnut. It's munching on what isn't.

Barry Neil Kaufman

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• I have a really dark, rich, thick sense of humor.

  

  Inga Muscio
  • Dark
  • Humor
  • Sense Of Humor

• The minister who keeps back hell from his people in his sermons is neither a faithful nor a charitable man.

  

  J. C. Ryle
  • People

• Pray don't talk to me about the weather, Mr. Worthing. Whenever people talk to me about the weather, I always feel quite certain that they mean something else. And that makes me quite nervous.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • People
  • Certain
  • Talk

• Because exploration is not science driven, you've got to ask what is it driven by? And it's driven by politics.

  

  Heidi Hammel
  • Science
  • Politics
  • Exploration

• This is our festival and on this day we are all Indians. We celebrate the festival by maintaining the spirit of brotherhood.

  

  Brinda Karat
  • Spirit
  • Celebrate
  • Festival

• In Canada you grow up - we're next to the United States. We're watching whatever you're watching. We're following your news. It's obvious that we are inundated with American cultural information and political information. Whereas the opposite is not true.

  

  Rick Mercer
  • Political
  • Information
  • Grows

• There are things one does not say for a long time, but, once they are said, one never stops repeating them.

  

  Benjamin Carson
  • Long Time
  • Repeating

• Virtue lies in the middle ground.

  

  Jose Rizal
  • Lying
  • Virtue
  • Middle

• Went to the paper shop - it had blown away.

  

  Tommy Cooper
  • Paper
  • Shops

• There are relatively few role models for young people. We are in a society that is ruled by men.

  

  Catherine Deneuve
  • Men
  • Society
  • Ruled

• To be gentle and kind, modest and truthful, to be full of faith and integrity, doing no wrong is of God; goodness sheds a halo of loveliness around every person who possesses it, making their countenances beam with light, and their society desirable because of its excellency. They are loved of God, of holy angels, and of all the good earth, while they are hated, envied, admired, and feared by the wicked.

  

  Brigham Young
  • God
  • Society
  • Truthful

• God knew we would make mistakes. Life is all about mistakes. It is constant change and growth. Our greatest challenges in life will one day be known to us as our greatest teachers.

  

  Betty Eadie
  • God
  • Change
  • Mistakes

• A few yes men may be born, but mostly they are made. Fear is a great breeder of them.

  

  William Wrigley, Jr.
  • Men
  • Born
  • Birth

• What differentiates the success stories from the failures is that the successful entrepreneurs had the foresight, the ability, and the tools to discover which parts of their plans were working brilliantly and which were misguided, and adapt their strategies accordingly.

  

  Eric Ries
  • Success
  • Discover
  • Failures

• There sighs, lamentations and loud wailings resounded through the starless air, so that at first it made me weep; strange tongues, horrible language, words of pain, tones of anger, voices loud and hoarse, and with these the sound of hands, made a tumult which is whirling through that air forever dark, and sand eddies in a whirlwind.

  

  Dante Alighieri
  • Pain
  • Language
  • Sound

• Cain, perpetrator of fratricide, was in my opinion a perfect example of the followers of Lucifer I speak of. In imitation of the traitor of traitors, they seek out the most maimed creatures within their own households and consecrate these to the Lord

  

  Arcangela Tarabotti
  • Example
  • Traitor
  • Fratricide

• Worrying about the future is like trying to eat the hole in a doughnut. It's munching on what isn't.

  

  Barry Neil Kaufman
  • Worrying
  • Hole
  • Munching