Byron York Quotes

Now that the 2014 elections are over and national politics is all about 2016, Democrats have good reason to worry that, for all his success at the polls, President Obama will leave his party with a toxic legacy.

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• Though I am a Catholic, a professing one, I have serious doubts about the survival of the human personality after death.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • Death
  • Personality
  • Catholic

• What people don't appreciate, when they picture Terminator-style automatons striding triumphantly across a mountain of human skulls, is how hard it is to keep your footing on something as unstable as a mountain of human skulls. Most humans probably couldn't manage it, and they've had a lifetime of practice at walking without falling over.

  

  Randall Munroe
  • People
  • Style
  • Practice

• No civilisation can claim to have a monopoly on universal values and no one can claim to be always faithful to his own values.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
  • Values
  • Own
  • Faithful

• Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.

  

  Og Mandino
  • Life
  • Today
  • Understanding

• Obviously Hall & Oates wasn't overlooked by the masses in terms of the record sales.

  

  Inara George
  • Sales
  • Masses
  • Overlooked

• Head lice have their own animal-rights group, or may as well. The National Pediculosis Association doesn't exactly advocate letting lice live with dignity, but it does oppose pediculicidal treatments.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Live
  • May
  • Animal

• Most men say they can cook pasta, but I think you should find a little bit of an unusual angle on your pasta and make that your signature dish.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Men
  • Think
  • Signature

• I learned early on not to listen to either critique - the people who love you or the people who don't like you.

  

  Dan Brown
  • People
  • Like
  • Learned

• My style of playing is more enthusiasm and instinct than skill.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Style
  • Enthusiasm
  • Skill

• When you're trained for battle, the idea is that it will be man against man.

  

  Taya Kyle
  • Man
  • You
  • Battle

• Sometimes you can know too much. A lot of brainy people like Stephen Fry are quite depressive.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • People
  • Sometimes
  • Brainy

• Artists complain about the art world until it starts rubbing their back, then they have their love affair with it.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • World
  • Art
  • Artists

• There is only one thing that gives me hope as a Republican, and that is the Democrats. It's going to be hard to do a worse job running American than the Republicans have, but if anybody can do it, it's the Democrats.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Job
  • Hope
  • Republican

• 'I feel strong in challenges, believing that personal improvement and fulfillment come through the continual process of learning from both negative and positive experiences.'

  

  T. B. Joshua
  • Strong
  • Learning
  • Positive

• I feel like everything I tried to do is in there.

  

  Madeleine Stowe

• I fully realize that no wealth or position can long endure, unless built upon truth and justice, therefore, I will engage in no transaction which does not benefit all whom it affects.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Long
  • Truth
  • Justice

• I had been struggling with how to create a child-like protagonist's voice without making it sound as though I was 'dumbing down' to the character. They are able to see events, people and places with an intensity and open mindedness that adults lack.

  

  An Na
  • People
  • Character

• Children give life a reason to be - they make life.

  

  Len Goodman
  • Life
  • Children

• I'm always searching. It's the reason I'm here. It's not really about music: it's about searching for meaning.

  

  Charlie Haden
  • Music

• I could give you a long list of things I like about Britain, but essentially what it comes down to is that I feel about Britain the same way I feel about my wife. I'm crazy about my wife - we just kind of suit each other. I wouldn't say that she's the most fantastic human being that's ever lived, but she is for me.

  

  Bill Bryson
  • Long
  • She
  • Wife

• You mustnt give your heart to a wild thing. The more you do, the stronger they get.

  

  Audrey Hepburn
  • Heart
  • Stronger
  • WIld

• Let us take refuge from this world. You can do this in spirit, even if you are kept here in the body. You can at the same time be here and present to the Lord. Your soul must hold fast to him, you must follow after him in your thoughts, you must tread his ways by faith, not in outward show.

  

  Saint Ambrose
  • Time
  • World
  • Soul

• I think when you take the job, you automatically assume that you work for the president. And you are part of a team. And loyalty is a big thing. It's, you know, as a former governor, I can tell you, loyalty and trust is everything when you're a CEO. And so I can totally understand why Donald Trump is looking for loyalty and trust.

  

  Nikki Haley
  • Team
  • President
  • Loyalty

• Now that the 2014 elections are over and national politics is all about 2016, Democrats have good reason to worry that, for all his success at the polls, President Obama will leave his party with a toxic legacy.

  

  Byron York
  • Party
  • Worry
  • President