Coleman Barks Quotes
A hand shifts our birdcages around. Some are brought closer. Some move apart. Do not try to reason it out. Be conscious of who draws you and who not.
Quotes to Explore
-
We approach closer and closer to socialism.
B. Carroll Reece
-
There's a reason you can still read Thucydides, and it still makes sense to you thousands of years later.
D. B. Weiss
-
A lion is called a 'king of beasts' obviously for a reason.
Jack Hanna
-
Cultural tourism surveys consistently rate San Francisco's art industry as a core reason for visiting.
Gavin Newsom
-
Faith... must be enforced by reason... when faith becomes blind it dies.
Mahatma Gandhi
-
After you pay your E-ZPass bill, there is no reason for the government to keep records of your travel.
Adam Cohen
-
The reason why nothing sticks to Trump - or very little sticks to Trump - is that he created this brand idea that has to do with being the guy who gets away from it.
Naomi Klein
-
The third umpires should be changed as often as nappies and for the same reason.
Navjot Singh Sidhu
-
Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.
Galileo Galilei
-
Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.
Walter Scott
-
Brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls aren't there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to show us how badly we want things.
Randy Pausch
-
It just is nothing foreign to consciousness at all that could present itself to consciousness through the mediation of phenomena different from the liking itself; to like is intrinsically to be conscious.
Edmund Husserl
-
For it is extremely absurd to expect to be enlightened by reason, and yet to prescribe to her beforehand on which side she must incline.
Immanuel Kant
-
I come here to be coach of Manchester City and train these players. That's the reason I am here.
Pep Guardiola
-
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
Friedrich Nietzsche
-
We have no reason to suppose that we are the Creator's last word.
George Bernard Shaw
-
The number of people who said that it made a difference to them that I'm out is the reason that I'm out. There are people who devote their lives to taking away the rights of gays and lesbians, and I think that visibility is very important. I'm trying to encourage more people to come out, and show everyone who they are, because it's harder to take away the rights of a human being. And this is a miracle state, because we can get married. And I think that these people working to take away our rights are going to lose, because of this generation.
Anthony Rapp
-
Be brave and fearless to know that even if you do make a wrong decision, you're making it for a good reason.
Adele
-
Dawn, ever bearing some divine increase Of beauty, love, and wisdom round the world, Dawn, like a wild-rose in the fields of heaven Washed grey with dew, awoke, and found the barque At anchor in a little land-locked bay.
Alfred Noyes
-
Children who are accustomed to being treated well internalize that treatment and have a permanent sense of well-being. But children whose every need is instantly gratified and who are constantly praised to the skies do not have the same sense of well-being; rather they may feel despair or rage when that gratification is withheld, or when everyone doesn't glorify them in the same way.
Victoria Secunda
-
The problem with the so-called bloody surveillance state is that it’s hard work trying to track someone’s movements using CCTV – especially if they’re on foot. Part of the problem is that the cameras all belong to different people for different reasons. Westminster Council has a network for traffic violations, the Oxford Street Trading Association has a huge network aimed at shop-lifters and pickpockets, individual shops have their own systems, as do pubs, clubs and buses. When you walk around London it is important to remember that Big Brother may be watching you, or he could be having a piss, or reading the paper or helping redirect traffic around a car accident or maybe he’s just forgotten to turn the bloody thing on.
Ben Aaronovitch
-
Nothing is wiser than giving first to God, cutting back our expenditures wherever we can, and systematically paying off our debts to others, having placed ourselves through our faithful giving under God's blessing instead of His curse.
Randy Alcorn
-
A hand shifts our birdcages around. Some are brought closer. Some move apart. Do not try to reason it out. Be conscious of who draws you and who not.
Coleman Barks