Coleman Barks Quotes

As long as you have not set fire to everything you call yours, you are not alive. You are not here! Your happiness is not real.

Coleman Barks

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• I have always been a generous and enthusiastic reader.

  

  Karen Joy Fowler
  • Always
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• Time and again we see leaders and members of religions incite aggression, fanaticism, hate, and xenophobia - even inspire and legitimate violent and bloody conflicts.

  

  Hans Kung
  • Time
  • Hate
  • Inspire

• There are certain things women are better at than men.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Men
  • Women
  • Better

• Fairy tales opened up a door into my imagination - they don't conform to the reality that's around you as a child. I started reading when I was three and read everything, but I wanted to be an actress.

  

  Kate Atkinson
  • Up
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• Live with integrity, respect the rights of other people, and follow your own bliss.

  

  Nathaniel Branden
  • People
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• I'm taking a vow not to advise.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Taking
  • Advise
  • Vow

• In the 1990s, we were certain that Saddam Hussein had a nuclear arsenal. In fact, his factories could barely make soap.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • Fact
  • Nuclear
  • Soap

• The obsessive rules of etiquette struck Emily as mean-spirited, like the old trick of tying someone’s shoelaces under the table. It was only fun if you liked watching people fall down.

  

  M. K. Hobson
  • People
  • Fun
  • Fall

• What beck'ning ghost, along the moonlight shade Invites my steps, and points to yonder glade?

  

  Alexander Pope

• Some still ask of us: what do you want? We answer with three words that summon up our entire program. Here they are…Italy, Republic, Socialization. . .Socialization is no other than the implantation of Italian Socialism…

  

  Benito Mussolini
  • Up
  • Words
  • Italian

• Vivisection is the killing of animals to find cures for the diseases caused by eating animals.

  

  Victoria Moran

• Everything else - music, cinematography, costumes, design, acting - can be judged at face value. But when you're looking at editing, you don't know what the totality of the material was, and you don't know the working dynamic between a director and an editor - whether the editor was micromanaged or given free rein. It's very difficult.

  

  Christopher Rouse
  • Music
  • Free
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• One thing I have clear is that I don't want to work for money anymore.

  

  Antonio Banderas
  • Work
  • Money

• I'm a big believer in living out your dreams and facing your fears.

  

  Brock Lesnar

• We're in a celebrity culture, and when I turn on the news today I hear about Lindsay Lohan, Tiger Woods and Paris Hilton and the Kardashian sisters and 'Dancing with the Stars,' one thing after another, Kate Gosselin's new body.

  

  Philip Yancey
  • Today
  • Culture
  • Celebrity

• Writing can be fun. I think the challenge is to convey interesting things in accessible ways, and that's what I aim to do in books.

  

  Matt Haig
  • Writing
  • Fun
  • Interesting

• No one who cooks, cooks alone. Even at her most solitary, a cook in the kitchen is surrounded by generations of cooks past, the advice and menus of cooks present, and the wisdom of cookbook writers.

  

  Laurie Colwin
  • Past
  • Alone
  • Wisdom

• It's important for me to have my family close.

  

  Curtis Joseph
  • Important
  • Family

• The trend of offering individualized education plans, curricula, and lessons is going to help students tremendously. “Teaching to the middle” is one of the saddest concepts I've ever heard about.

  

  Mike Lee
  • Teaching
  • Students
  • Trends

• Ballet has a very small audience, unfortunately.

  

  Sascha Radetsky
  • Small
  • Audience
  • Ballet

• The actual work of recording a record or making a film just requires that you consciously block the time out to do that and nothing else. That's what I do.

  

  Dwight Yoakam
  • Time
  • Work

• ... when he saw her sitting there all alone, so young, and good, and beautiful, and kind to him; and heard her thrilling voice, so natural and sweet, and such a golden link between him and all his life's love and happiness, rising out of the silence; he turned his face away, and hid his tears.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Happiness
  • Silence
  • Voice

• As long as you have not set fire to everything you call yours, you are not alive. You are not here! Your happiness is not real.

  

  Coleman Barks
  • Happiness
  • Fire
  • Alive