Brian Christian Quotes

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• All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Time
  • World
  • Power

• I didn't get at first put into a rehab facility; I got put in a adolescent psychiatric unit for my detox.

  

  Jack Osbourne
  • First
  • Got
  • Adolescent

• The way to lose weight is to eat less, so I ate a lot less for a month and lost a lot of weight pretty quickly.

  

  Malcolm Turnbull
  • Pretty
  • Lost
  • Lose

• The congressmen and senators used to go have a drink in D.C. They would disagree all day long, but they would find that time to sit down and learn about each other personally. I think that's totally wiped out; I don't think it really exists anymore.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • Time
  • Long
  • Day

• Even the superstars need to be coached once in awhile.

  

  Adam Oates
  • Need
  • Once
  • Awhile

• When Arab apologists wring their hands over an Israeli military incursion, they never mention what the Israelis are reacting to, or else diminish and distort it.

  

  Jack Schwartz
  • Never
  • Military
  • Hands

• I literally went down to my car and thought, 'Oh my God, SAP bought Concur - maybe tomorrow they'll buy Dairy Queen.' It was the best thing that happened to me on the day I was named CEO of Oracle.

  

  Safra A. Catz
  • God
  • Day
  • Car

• I'd rather have 100,000 people who really get what I'm doing and like it for what it is than a million who can take it or leave it.

  

  Kacey Musgraves
  • People
  • Doing
  • Million

• I want to have a food truck that would just be bathrooms. I would line it up in back of the other food trucks, and I'd charge $1 for use.

  

  Ike Barinholtz
  • Up
  • Want
  • Food

• I shop at thrift shops probably five times a week.

  

  Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty
  • Week
  • Times
  • Thrift

• One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Soul
  • Growing
  • Teacher

• I loved campaigning for Obama.

  

  Kate Walsh
  • Loved
  • Obama
  • Campaigning

• Never say goodbye, You say tomorrow's another day, All I know is we're here today. I've got nightmares I could never share with you, The kind that keeps me up all night. So hold me tight till the room is light And tell me that it's all right.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Up
  • Today
  • Night

• How happy he who crowns in shades like these,A youth of labour with an age of ease.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Happy
  • Age

• If the only significant history of human thought were to be written, it would have to be the history of its successive regrets and its impotences.

  

  Albert Camus
  • History

• If you really think about it, everything is wonderful in this world, everything except for our thoughts and deeds when we forget about the loftier goals of existence, about our human dignity.

  

  Anton Chekhov
  • World
  • Thoughts
  • Goals

• My mother was really courageous.

  

  Ara Parseghian
  • Mother

• I've seen my mom confined to a wheelchair in the last three years of her life. Both her knees had given way, and there was no way she could undergo surgery at her age. Even though I was concerned for her, I didn't know at that time what she had to go through.

  

  Akkineni Nagarjuna
  • Life
  • Time
  • She

• I'm finding that success is way more time-consuming than failure ever was.

  

  Emma Donoghue
  • Time
  • Success
  • Failure

• In Asia, the nation state still is extremely vital, and of course, then in Africa, a whole new pattern is emerging because the states in Africa reflected the preferences of the colonial powers when they were established.

  

  Henry Kissinger
  • Asia
  • VItal
  • Africa

• I don't know a lot of writers, even writers who have been on the bestseller list for a few weeks, or writers who have gotten movie options, who can live on just their writing income. Once you break it down to the years it took to write the book, place it, promote it, and you pay the agent, pay the taxes, the annual income is not enough to live on comfortably. I do not have a starving artist inclination. I'm from the working class. I don't feel creative unless I feel like my house is going to be there and I'm going to be fed. I can't worry about money and write. Maybe some people can.

  

  Debra Monroe
  • People
  • Book
  • Worry

• These subsidies would ... reduce the unemployment rate of low-skilled workers; put the paychecks of low-wage workers closer to the median scale; decrease the unemployed worker's feelings of exclusion, dependence and powerlessness; inculcate the habits of self-efficacy and self-sufficiency; and increase employees' incentive to better themselves.

  

  Al Gini
  • Worker
  • Unemployment
  • Self-Sufficiency

• Keep your life in its constant contact with God that his surprising power may break out on the right hand and on the left. Always be in a state of expectancy, and see that you leave room for God to come in as he likes.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Life
  • God
  • May

• Sometimes there’s so much that needs to be said that the literal site disappears, becomes, as in My Dinner with Andre...

  

  Brian Christian
  • Literal site
  • My Dinner with Andre