Bernadette Roberts Quotes

When one is perfectly still-mind and body, silent and alone-there is no personality to speak of, thus personality is one's unique way of expression, it is what others see and know of us, nothing more or deeper than that.

Bernadette Roberts

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• I think my message goes out to the entire spectrum of political parties. I'm supported by the Tea Party, the Conservative Party and the Republican Party. I come from a Democratic world. My world is moderate Democrats, Reagan-type Democrats if you want, the blues or whatever you call them, the Blue Dogs. That's been my world, historically.

  

  Carl Paladino
  • World
  • Political
  • Party

• I am an optimist. I believe the future is bright. I think people who see life painted in dark colors are the ones who do not take ownership.

  

  Maelle Gavet
  • People
  • Life
  • Believe

• I don't think I ever write songs involving politics, because they get dated way too quick. Any view you have can usually be made into something more general, and that can stand throughout time.

  

  Sir Isaac Brock KB
  • Time
  • Politics
  • Stand

• If months were marked by colors, November in New England would be colored gray.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • New
  • November
  • Colors

• Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and the very magnitude of the crime the best excuse for doing nothing.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Best
  • Guilty
  • Discovery

• Well, I have been in physical altercations, but they weren't really fights because I am too scared and Jewish. So anytime that it gets to a point where there is gonna be a fight, I immediately apologize.

  

  Adam Pally
  • Fight
  • Jewish
  • Apologize

• I am far more distress-avoidant than I am joy-seeking.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Joy
  • Distress

• I've always liked stories. I'm always reading, ever since I was a kid. I've always been reading and wanting to be in some other world.

  

  Garret Dillahunt
  • World
  • Reading
  • Always

• To be fair, I don't think it's a plague to say I have the misfortune of making movies for a living.

  

  A. J. Bowen
  • Think
  • Movies
  • Fair

• The government is so out of control. It is so bloated and infested with fraud and deceit and corruption and abuse of power.

  

  Ted Nugent
  • Power
  • Control
  • Government

• When climate change supercharges weather patterns, the disadvantaged often suffer first and most.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Change
  • First
  • Weather

• The idea of recklessly spending money - even though it sounds like it's lots of fun, it's fashion - isn't interesting to me. It is a business.

  

  Kate Spade
  • Money
  • Business
  • Fun

• The only thing lawful is non-violence. Violence can never be lawful in the sense meant here, i.e., not according to man-made laws, but according to the laws made by Nature for man.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Nature
  • Violence

• Religion isn't always pretty. Especially viewed from the outside, by an unbeliever.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Pretty

• quoted in American Character: A History of the Epic Struggle Between Individual Liberty and the Common Good (2015)

  

  Ralph Nader
  • Good
  • Character
  • American

• When I come before these men I do not have to explain that we are all sinners. They have committed every sin there is. All I have to tell them is that I, too, am a sinner.

  

  Karl Barth
  • Men

• The gods are watching, but idly, yawning.

  

  Mason Cooley

• We act in ways that are mysterious to ourselves.

  

  Katie Kitamura
  • Mysterious

• You can run,” Dorian said in a neutral tone that did nothing to lessen the intensity of his expression, “but sooner or later, you run out of places to run to.

  

  Nalini Singh
  • Running
  • Expression
  • Tone

• If you practice an art, be proud of it and make it proud of you It may break your heart, but it will fill your heart before it breaks it; it will make you a person in your own right.

  

  Maxwell Anderson
  • Heart
  • Art
  • May

• School is the path, not the point.

  

  Will Richardson
  • School
  • Path
  • Point

• We are so blessed to be here in America. We have freedom and opportunity unlike anywhere else in the world.

  

  Dana Perino
  • World
  • America
  • Freedom

• When one is perfectly still-mind and body, silent and alone-there is no personality to speak of, thus personality is one's unique way of expression, it is what others see and know of us, nothing more or deeper than that.

  

  Bernadette Roberts
  • Personality
  • Expression
  • Silent