Brian Urquhart Quotes

The U.N. actually took a lot of trouble to protect him...

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• I've done nothing but show up and fight, go to work inside the Octagon, outside the Octagon, and do things right. But people want to talk about me and discredit me.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • People
  • Up
  • Work

• Nature is the incarnation of thought. The world is the mind precipitated.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • World
  • Mind
  • Nature

• I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.

  

  Sally Phillips
  • Love
  • Around
  • Days

• I wouldn't ever pose naked... I'm fine to do bikinis and certainly lingerie if I feel it's done tastefully... cute like Victoria's Secret, but nothing like raunchy or overly sexual.

  

  Hailey Bieber
  • Done
  • Cute
  • Naked

• The only way to defeat evil is by taking advantage of our freedoms.

  

  Taya Kyle
  • Way
  • Evil
  • Defeat

• I don't put on makeup when I'm getting ready for a game, because why would I? I am gearing up for battle. How is mascara or eyeliner going to help me win?

  

  Carli Lloyd
  • Up
  • Why
  • Help

• I've got tons more stuff to do.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • Stuff
  • More
  • Got

• I believe that the only people who really, truly benefit from any of the policies of Republicans are the wealthy. I'm in that 1 percent tax bracket, but I'm not a man of wealth.

  

  Questlove
  • People
  • Believe
  • Man

• I have to detach myself completely from aspirations. I hardly ever listen to music anymore because it arouses all of this yearning in me.

  

  Laura Hillenbrand
  • Music
  • Listen
  • Aspirations

• With any hallucinations, if you can do functional brain imagery while they're going on, you will find that the parts of the brain usually involved in seeing or hearing - in perception - have become super active by themselves. And this is an autonomous activity; this does not happen with imagination.

  

  Oliver Sacks
  • Imagination
  • Brain
  • Perception

• You don't know who wants you for you, who wants you for the money, who wants you for the fame. You have no idea. And how would you know? There's no way.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Money
  • Know
  • Fame

• The problem isn't that conservatives are wrong about the efficiency of markets or the creativity of enterprise. It's that they have made false idols of both, usually without acknowledging that markets work best when well regulated, that private enterprise cannot meet every human need, that government has always played a critical role in our economy, and that the profit motive can be socially and environmentally destructive as well as dynamic.

  

  Joe Conason
  • Work
  • Problem
  • Creativity

• I'm a vampire, idiot. I don't have x-ray vision." "Some supernatural monster you are, remind me to trade you in for a werewolf, bro. Probably be more useful right now.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Vision
  • Monster
  • Vampire

• He came after Homer and before Gertrude Stein, a difficult interval for a poet.

  

  Anne Carson
  • Poet
  • Homer
  • Gertrude Stein

• Comedy is a blood sport. It flays the truth and spurts twisted logic. In America, people become comics because we don't have bullfighting.

  

  Elayne Boosler
  • People
  • Truth
  • America

• I think if religion closes discussion or exchange of ideas or curiosity about other views, it's not true to its core.

  

  David O. Russell
  • Thinking
  • True
  • Ideas

• Double, double, toil and trouble; Fire burn, and cauldron bubble!

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Trouble
  • Memorable
  • Halloween

• Yes, man is mortal, but that would be only half the trouble. The worst of it is that he's sometimes unexpectedly mortal—there's the trick!

  

  Mikhail Bulgakov
  • Trouble
  • Man Is
  • Mortal

• In a thousand years we shall all forget The things that trouble us now.

  

  Adam Lindsay Gordon
  • Things
  • Forget
  • Trouble

• The U.N. actually took a lot of trouble to protect him...

  

  Brian Urquhart
  • Trouble
  • U.N.