Brian Houston Quotes

The spirit of those around you will stick to you like glue. Be careful of wrong associations and what you allow to cling to you. Not everyone who appears friendly is a friend.

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• Falsehood is a perennial spring.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Spring
  • Falsehood
  • Perennial

• There is a very deep conviction in the heart of the people who work in al-Jazeera that if it changes its editorial line, it will very quickly lose its audience. Al-Jazeera has its own style; it has more than 3,500 employees, and I don't think anyone will have the attitude of changing it because they will lose.

  

  Wadah Khanfar
  • People
  • Work
  • Heart

• I'm not one for Sudoku or crosswords - the thing that fires my little brain is doing tour budgets.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • Brain
  • Doing
  • Little

• Gratitude is not only the memory but the homage of the heart rendered to God for his goodness.

  

  Nathaniel Parker Willis
  • God
  • Heart
  • Memory

• I feel it's tougher for the guys, because if I break up with them, then they can go on and be forced to watch me on TV every day. I don't see them.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • Up
  • Me
  • Day

• I want to wake up every day and feel that I'm training harder than my competitors, that I'm dieting harder, that I'm recovering better. That's what gives me confidence when I'm lining up on the blocks. I've never gone out to prove people wrong. I just want to be the best that I can possibly be.

  

  Oscar Pistorius
  • People
  • Up
  • Day

• I definitely see myself continuing to transition into more acting roles. I'll always be a coach. I'm always going to have a training center, always going to work with guys that are looking for some input and want help. I love commentating, and that's something I can always go back to and enjoy doing.

  

  Randy Couture
  • Work
  • Love
  • Help

• It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Men
  • Free
  • Constitution

• I am on the edge of mysteries and the veil is getting thinner and thinner.

  

  Louis Pasteur

• We do not want an expanding struggle with consequences, that no one can perceive, nor will we bluster or bully or flaunt our power, but we will not surrender and we will not retreat, for behind our American pledge lies the determination and resources, I believe, of all of the American nation.

  

  Lyndon B. Johnson
  • Believe
  • Power
  • American

• A people must have dignity and identity.

  

  Andrew Goodman
  • People
  • Identity

• Obviously, stats are important tools, but I think there's something behind those things; somewhere along the way, you've got to try to look inside someone.

  

  Jerry West
  • Important

• Once I've designed something, I immediately move on to the next thing.

  

  Kelly Wearstler

• The most important thing is, how can I move forward towards something that I can't articulate, that is new in storytelling with moving images and sound?

  

  Martin Scorsese
  • Important
  • Moving

• There is a greed case for diversity. Diverse perspectives bring us into markets we didn't know existed.

  

  Chris Sacca
  • Diversity
  • Greed

• I don't try to make the guitar sound like the harpsichord or lute. That makes you end up being like a bad copy.

  

  David Russell
  • Up
  • Bad

• The deconstructed, postmodern pizza has been with us for ages, and the fact is that pretty much every ingredient in the world has been used as a pizza topping and liked by somebody, somewhere.

  

  John Lanchester
  • World
  • Pretty
  • Pizza

• When I'm playing an American, I don't play Lennie with an American accent. They're American characters who look like me, but they have different voices.

  

  Lennie James
  • Different
  • American

• And when your sorrow is comforted (time soothes all sorrows) you will be content that you have known me. You will always be my friend. You will want to laugh with me. And you will sometimes open your window, so, for that pleasure . . . And your friends will be properly astonished to see you laughing as you look up at the sky! Then you will say to them, 'Yes, the stars always make me laugh!' And they will think you are crazy. It will be a very shabby trick that I shall have played on you.

  

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  • Friend
  • Laugh
  • Sorrow

• What is our death but a night's sleep? For as through sleep all weariness and faintness pass away and cease, and the powers of the spirit come back again, so that in the morning we arise fresh and strong and joyous; so at the Last Day we shall rise again as if we had only slept a night, and shall be fresh and strong.

  

  Martin Luther
  • Death
  • Strong
  • Sleep

• Since the creation of the world there has been no tyrant like Intemperance, and no slaves so cruelly treated as his.

  

  William Lloyd Garrison
  • World
  • Wine
  • Creation

• You were not my first love, Stoick the Vast," said Valhallarama. "But you are my last…

  

  Cressida Cowell
  • Love
  • You
  • First

• I believe the Bible is the best gift God has ever given to man.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • God
  • Bible
  • I Believe

• The spirit of those around you will stick to you like glue. Be careful of wrong associations and what you allow to cling to you. Not everyone who appears friendly is a friend.

  

  Brian Houston
  • Friend
  • Spirit