Everett Reimer Quotes

Schools learned long ago that the way to keep children from thinking is to keep them busy.

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• Life is not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.

  

  Lady Randolph Churchill
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Best

• Novelists should be like scientists, dissecting the cadaver.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Like
  • Should
  • Novelists

• The Lord discovered to me a sense of my unbelief that, though late, I should remember my transgressions and that I should be converted with my whole heart to the Lord my God.

  

  Saint Patrick
  • God
  • Heart
  • Remember

• The bad boy: always more fun.

  

  Ian McShane
  • Bad
  • Fun
  • Boy

• Music is my heart, but I see television and more movies in the next stage of my life.

  

  Ja Rule
  • Life
  • Music
  • Heart

• My husband makes sacrifices so that I can shine.

  

  Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • Husband
  • I Can
  • Shine

• The art of interpretation is not to play what is written.

  

  Pablo Casals
  • Art
  • Play
  • Interpretation

• Indeed, eventually, random outcomes all revert to the mean, meaning that streaks eventually end. Understanding this is a key part of intelligent and rational investing.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Understanding
  • End
  • Intelligent

• I feel a man, when married, becomes more balanced. All the extra-curricular activities are done away with. The focus is on work and family.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Work
  • Family
  • Done

• I went into Guitar Center, and David Koresh and Steven Schneider were looking at a drum set, and they asked me to play it. They handed me their card, which said, 'Messiah Productions.' All this religious scripture was written on the back. The last thing I wanted was to join any kind of Christian band.

  

  David Thibodeau
  • Band
  • Christian
  • Religious

• Any time the country is split 50/50, the leader is wrong.

  

  Charles Evers
  • Time
  • Country

• I don't get a chance to be funny with the thrillers. I like to be funny, and I think I am really funny. So with 'Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life', it was fun to let loose.

  

  James Patterson
  • Life
  • School
  • Fun

• The story is supposed to change; it's supposed to evolve. In making 'Cartel Land,' I ended up with a much, much different story than I started with.

  

  Matthew Heineman
  • Up
  • Different

• I still feel guilty buying something without asking my mother first. It's ridiculous. I'll call her and be like, 'I saw this dress, can I get it?' And she'll say, 'Margaret, whatever. Get the dress.'

  

  Margaret Qualley
  • She
  • Mother
  • Guilty

• They share these oppressive views and values. We want to remain a free and open society. Then, and if we do, then we have to control our borders. We have to control, and we have to control them now, not later. Right now.

  

  Donald Trump
  • Society
  • Free
  • Control

• Why should you shake hands with somebody who's keeping Americans in prison? I mean, what's the point? Neville Chamberlain shook hands with Hitler.

  

  John McCain
  • Why

• Taking responsibility and having faith in your own judgment will help you make good choices and decisions at the end of your pet's life.

  

  Jon Katz
  • Life
  • Good
  • Help

• Anytime we're interacting with someone, we're judging them, we're sharing expectations, we think they didn't live up to those expectations.

  

  Jonathan Haidt
  • Up
  • Live
  • Judging

• Count Basie isn't just a man, or even just a band. He's a way of life.

  

  Lena Horne
  • Life
  • Man
  • Way

• God doesn't need our consent in order to govern us; He made us.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • God
  • Govern
  • Consent

• I do have electric guitars, because I've always believed, especially when I'm working in the studio with other bands as producer, that there should be a really nice Strat around.

  

  Nick Mason Pink Floyd
  • Nice

• I think that American women are further along than any other women in the world. But you can't have peace in a world in which some women or some men or some nations are at different stages of development. There is so much work to be done.

  

  Alice Paul
  • World
  • Work
  • Men

• Schools learned long ago that the way to keep children from thinking is to keep them busy.

  

  Everett Reimer
  • Thinking
  • Way
  • Busy