Eric Weiner Quotes

Reason cannot account for those moments in life that "bewilder the intellect yet utterly quiet the heart," as G.K. Chesterton observed.

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• I'm good at description and imparting flow to a story, but I don't necessarily understand the value of long scenes.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • Good
  • Long
  • Value

• Merlin really taught me how to concentrate, that you play each play as if it were the only play. And if you put all the plays together like that, then you'll come out on top.

  

  Jack Youngblood
  • Together
  • Me
  • Play

• Victory Over Violence is an organization that was created to help fund shelters for women and children.

  

  Victoria Principal
  • Women
  • Children
  • Help

• I've been into horses as far back as I can remember. There is a particular kind here in America called the 'quarter horse' that I'm very interested in.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Remember
  • America
  • Horse

• Starting with 'Forever, Interrupted,' I somehow convinced myself that in order to create content, I had to consume content. What this means is that I have legitimized binge-watching television and told myself that I must do it for work.

  

  Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • Work
  • Myself
  • Forever

• You spend so much to buy these media net stories or full page ads to build perception... you can rather save this money and put it in the making or marketing of the film.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Money
  • Perception
  • Media

• Leadership is an opportunity to serve. It is not a trumpet call to self-importance.

  

  J. Donald Walters
  • Opportunity
  • Leadership

• Well, it really describes what it feels like to be a normal person whose boss and friend suddenly runs for the president, and then becomes the president.

  

  Karen Hughes
  • Friend
  • President
  • Boss

• Koreans stuck to their traditional way of life without knowing what was going on outside the country. We were like frogs in a well.

  

  Park Chung-hee
  • Life
  • Country
  • Like

• Casting directors now just see me as the hard-core sniper or prison guard.

  

  Barry Pepper
  • Directors
  • Prison
  • Guard

• I have jeggings to wear and worlds to conquer.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Wear
  • Conquer
  • Worlds

• Coming from a middle class background, travel was always considered a luxury then, even if it meant going to a relative's place or a religious shrine.

  

  Imtiaz Ali
  • Always
  • Religious
  • Travel

• The U.N. Security Council ordered Iraq in April 1991 to relinquish all capabilities to make biological, chemical and nuclear weapons as well as long-range missiles.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Long
  • Security
  • Well

• If the world acts together, we can make sure that all of our children enjoy lives of opportunity and dignity.

  

  Barack Obama
  • World
  • Children
  • Together

• Armageddon is not a foreign policy.

  

  Madeleine Albright

• It was one of the most memorable experiences of my life. I got to see firsthand the sacrifices that Israelis make in the name of security because of the dangerous state of affairs there. I will always be a strong supporter of Israel.

  

  Gabrielle Giffords
  • Life
  • Strong

• Coraline shivered. She preferred her other mother to have a location: if she were nowhere, then she could be anywhere. And, after all, it is always easier to be afraid of something you cannot see.

  

  Neil Gaiman
  • She
  • Mother

• It comforts me to think that if we are created beings, the thing that created us would have to be greater than us, so much greater, in fact, that we would not be able to understand it. It would have to be greater than the facts of our reality, and so it would seem to us, looking out from within our reality that it would contradict reason. But reason itself would suggest it would have to be greater than reality, or it would not be reasonable.

  

  Donald Miller
  • Reality
  • Reason
  • Facts

• There's people back there, whatever the reason, they still have it out for JamesOn, ... Some people there haven't forgiven him. They can't look past the situation, and it's too bad. I'm talking about adults. JamesOn made a bad, bad mistake. It was out of character. But he's admitted to it. He's never run from it. He's answered every question about it, and more than that, he's been a great kid. I mean, let me tell you -- he is a special, special kid.

  

  Eddie Sutton
  • Character
  • Reason
  • Mistake

• What you believe one day isn't what you believe the next day and I think every writer secretly believes that they may never be able to do write good song or script again, but they can.

  

  Cameron Crowe
  • Good
  • Believe
  • May

• Reason cannot account for those moments in life that "bewilder the intellect yet utterly quiet the heart," as G.K. Chesterton observed.

  

  Eric Weiner
  • Heart
  • Reason
  • Intellect