William Barrett Quotes

We must be free for the truth; and conversely, to be able to be open toward the truth may be our deepest freedom as human creatures.

William Barrett

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• You put a lot of pressure on your defenders to be able to hold the fort when you go forward.

  

  Landon Donovan
  • You
  • Pressure
  • Forward

• The question of whether or to what extent human activities are causing global warming is not a matter of ideology, let alone of belief. The issue is simply one of risk management.

  

  Malcolm Turnbull
  • Alone
  • Question
  • Risk

• Where the Truth Lies rating has a lot more to do with the political climate in America today than it does with the film. It wouldn't have had this rating five years ago. There's nothing graphic in this film on screen; you can look at it, but you won't be able to see it, it's not there. There's nothing graphic sexually that's not about the story telling.

  

  Rachel Blanchard
  • Truth
  • America
  • Today

• Before beginning a Hunt, it is wise to ask someone what you are looking for before you begin looking for it.

  

  A. A. Milne
  • Beginning
  • Wise

• He dropped the pretense, and dropped his head, so his brow came to rest against the sun-warmed top of hers. His arms went around her and drew her in, and Karou and Akiva were like two matches struck against each other to flare starlight. With a sigh, she softened, and it was pure homecoming to melt against him and rest.

  

  Laini Taylor
  • She
  • Rest
  • Sun

• Forceful actions arising from erroneous beliefs often create social effects that confirm the misbeliefs.

  

  Albert Bandura
  • Actions
  • Beliefs
  • Effects

• On the other hand, with a sense of the sacred, one grows in understanding and

  

  D. Todd Christofferson
  • Hand
  • Understanding
  • Hands

• There’s an old saying: that which doesn’t kill you makes you stronger. I don’t believe that. I think the things that try to kill you make you angry and sad. Strength comes from the good things — your family, your friends, the satisfaction of hard work. Those are the things that keep you whole. Those are the things to hold on to when you’re broken.

  

  Alessandro Aleotti
  • Good
  • Work
  • Believe

• This being Black History Month, I would like to ask people to celebrate the similarities and not focus on the differences between people of color and not of color.

  

  Lynn Swann
  • People
  • History
  • Black

• John Conyers and I were the ones who wrote the bill that provides for Medicare for all. And, so, even though the single-payer plan is not what's before the Congress, to expand Medicare, so that people 55 and up would be - would have the chance to buy in, that's - that would be a step in the right direction, no question about it.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Up
  • Question

• We cannot simply look to austerity as a strategy and it is incredibly important that the Greek people see improvements in their daily lives so that they can carry with them the hope that their lives will get better.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Important
  • Hope

• That happy sense of purpose people have when standing up for a principle they haven't really been knocked down for yet.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Up
  • Happy

• Ain't nothin' wrong with the aim, just gotta change the target.

  

  Jay-Z
  • Aim
  • Target

• Cough up a lung where I'm from marcy son, aint nothin nice

  

  Jay-Z
  • Up
  • Nice
  • Son

• Pay attention to the intricate patterns of your existence that you take for granted.

  

  Clarence Douglas Dillon
  • Attention

• Man has, as it were, become a kind of prosthetic God. When he puts on all his auxiliary organs, he is truly magnificent; but those organs have not grown on him and they still give him much trouble at times.

  

  Sigmund Freud
  • God
  • Kind
  • Prosthetic

• Now, this one might be a little stringy, but then again, it's fiddle player." That isn't fiddle player, it's piccolo player." How can you tell?" It's PIPING hot!" Then blow on it first!

  

  Stephen Sondheim
  • Player
  • Firsts
  • Blow

• Just laws are no restraint upon the freedom of the good, for the good man desires nothing which a just law will interfere with.

  

  James Anthony Froude
  • Freedom
  • Laws
  • Desires

• The creatures that want to live a life of their own, we call wild. If wild, then no matter how harmless, we treat them as outlaws, and those of us who are specially well brought up shoot them for fun.

  

  Clarence Day
  • Life
  • Up
  • Live

• We must be free for the truth; and conversely, to be able to be open toward the truth may be our deepest freedom as human creatures.

  

  William Barrett
  • Humans
  • Able
  • Creatures