Brian Christian Quotes

But if we really want to start fathoming someone, we need to get them speaking in sentences we can't finish.

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• If I had a choice, I'd rather be admired less and have my husband tormented less. I'd prefer that people concentrate on a fair assessment of him and his Presidency.

  

  Pat Nixon
  • People
  • Husband
  • Choice

• Oh my God, I'm a walking advertisement for discounted shopping.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • God
  • Walking
  • Shopping

• Every four years in the presidential election, some new precedent is broken.

  

  Nate Silver
  • Years
  • Broken
  • Presidential

• Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • End
  • Aim
  • Noble

• I believe that if you have revolutionary potential, you must make the world a better place and use it.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • World
  • Believe
  • Potential

• I actually interviewed other people about myself, and that alerted me to the fact that I had to really investigate my memories.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • People
  • Myself
  • Memories

• I think the best thing I can say about it - and I think the best thing you can say about anything, really - is that 'The Motorcycle Diaries' made me feel like my home was bigger; it made me feel at home anywhere in Latin America.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Home
  • America
  • Best

• I can love a person in this life only insofar as he tries to advance in the praise and service of God our Lord; for the man who loves anything for itself and not for the sake of God, does not love God with his whole heart.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • Life
  • God
  • Person

• I am a bit of a Pollyanna - I spend most of my day happy.

  

  Ted Danson
  • Happy
  • Day
  • Pollyanna

• You know, as a young child, I lay in my bedroom and I swore to myself then: 'I'm not going to smoke and I'm not going to drink.' And I said I'm not going to just say that when I'm a kid. I'm going to stick to that as an adult. I kept that in mind my whole life.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Myself

• When you think about growing and being empowered yourself, it is what you've been able to do for other people that leaves you the fullest.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • People
  • Think
  • Growing

• They say marriage will change you but it didn't change me. Being in love changed me.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Love
  • Change
  • Marriage

• If the liberties of the American people are ever destroyed, they will fall by the hands of the clergy.

  

  Marquis de Lafayette
  • People
  • American
  • Fall

• You can feel a lot of things, and that's okay. Channel that into your passion.

  

  Aloe Blacc
  • Passion
  • Feel
  • Channel

• I don't think about tennis 24/7. I enjoy time on the lake at my Florida home and just being lazy on the sofa.

  

  Andy Roddick
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Home

• It's the confidence that says if I'm open shoot the basketball. I've been making shots my whole career. I can't turn down an open shot. I'm sorry, I can't do it. If I'm open, and a guy's 30 feet away from me, I've got to let it go.

  

  Eddie Charles Jones
  • Guy
  • Career
  • Confidence

• Be we reminded that the gathering of Israel is not the ultimate endpoint. It is but the beginning. The true endpoint is eternal life. It is that God’s children, in a covenant relationship with Him either by lineage or by adoption, will be able to dwell with Him and their families forever. That is God’s glory-eternal life for His children!

  

  Russell M. Nelson
  • Children
  • Forever
  • Adoption

• Punishments of unreasonable severity, especially where indiscriminately afflicted, have less effect in preventing crimes, and amending the manners of a people, than such as are more merciful in general, yet properly intermixed with due distinctions of severity.

  

  William Blackstone
  • People
  • Hell
  • Crime

• Well, my dear, take heart. Some day, I will kiss you and you will like it. But not now, so I beg you not to be too impatient.

  

  Margaret Mitchell
  • Heart
  • Kiss
  • Impatient

• Ever since I was first read to, then started reading to myself, there has never been a line read that I didn't hear. As my eyes followed the sentence, a voice was saying it silently to me. It isn't my mother's voice, or the voice of any person I can identify, certainly not my own. It is human, but inward, and it is inwardly that I listen to it. It is to me the voice of the story or the poem itself.

  

  Eudora Welty
  • Mother
  • Reading
  • Eye

• We definitely “grow” demos. In the beginning, we have a rough idea, and it usually is a work in progress for a few months. We usually have a couple going at the same time. When a song gets “there”, we will then zero in on it, and focus and finish it.

  

  Ryan Shuck
  • Song
  • Focus
  • Finish

• But if we really want to start fathoming someone, we need to get them speaking in sentences we can't finish.

  

  Brian Christian
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  • Sentences