Dan Barker Quotes

Asking, ‘If there is no God, what is the purpose of life?’ is like asking, ‘If there is no master, whose slave will I be?’ If your purpose of life is to submit as a slave, then your meaning comes from flattering the ego of a person whom you should detest.

Dan Barker

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• Life's a bit like mountaineering - never look down.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • Life
  • Look
  • Down

• Coach Lue always amazed me. I'm like, 'How do you have this much joy coming out of life? You have money, but you don't drink; you don't smoke. All you do is hoop, and you live on a natural high.' But now I know.

  

  J. R. Smith
  • Life
  • Live
  • Money

• You matter to God, and every detail of your life matters to Him.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Life
  • God
  • Detail

• To me, the newspaper business was a way to learn about life and how things worked in the real world and how people spoke. You learn all the skills - you learn to listen, you learn to take notes - everything you use later as a novelist was valuable training in the newspaper world. But I always wanted to write novels.

  

  Carl Hiaasen
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• There are very little things in this life I cannot afford and patience is one of them.

  

  Larry Hagman
  • Life
  • Patience
  • Little

• Nothing in my younger life could have told me I would have needed to know how to speak English.

  

  Omar Sy
  • Life
  • Me
  • English

• I'm very wholehearted. I want to concentrate on one thing in my life at one time.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Life
  • Time
  • My Life

• I feel like I've lost 10 years of my life to cancer.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Life
  • Lost
  • My Life

• It goes without saying that the normal durability of fixed capital is calculated on the supposition that all the conditions under which it can perform its functions normally during that time are fulfilled, just as we assume, in placing a mans life at 30 years on the average,that he will wash himself.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Life
  • Time

• We are speaking of life, because whenever we speak of universities, we speak of life. What are you? If I were asked that question right now, I would have to say that you are life, you are symbols of life.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Life
  • Question

• In order to make myself recognized by the Other, I must risk my own life. To risk one's life, in fact, is to reveal oneself as not-bound to the objective form or to any determined existence - as not-bound to life.

  

  Jean-Paul Sartre
  • Life
  • Risk

• In every new generation, the impulses supposed to have been rooted out by discipline in the child break forth again when the struggle for existence - of the individual in society, of the society in the life of the state - begins. These passions are not transformed by the prevalent education of the day, but only repressed.

  

  Ellen Key
  • Life
  • Society
  • Education

• You meet folks who are funny and really smart and persistent and loving that are confronting this thing we call poverty, which is just a shorthand for this way of life that holds you underwater. And you just wonder what our country would be if we allowed these people to flourish and reach their full potential.

  

  Matthew Desmond
  • People
  • Life
  • Country

• I just feel that God gave me a certain gift, and that was to go out, do storytelling and be an actor. And my responsibility with that gift is to do the best job possible and to re-create real life.

  

  Eric Close
  • Life
  • God
  • Real

• Life is the same. It would be the same thing if I were still working at Starbucks, having to deal with a manager, and a shift manager. This is a job.

  

  Azealia Banks
  • Life
  • Job

• The technologies which have had the most profound effects on human life are usually simple.

  

  Freeman Dyson
  • Life
  • Simple
  • Profound

• I think I could probably make $5 to $10m movies for a very long time and live a perfectly good life doing it. I'd probably get paid as well as a surgeon, which is pretty damn remarkable for a guy who went to film school.

  

  Jeff Nichols
  • Life
  • Time
  • Good

• I'm just trying to get back to normal life.

  

  Chris Kyle
  • Life
  • Trying

• Believe in yourself, not only in swimming, but in life itself. You always have to have fun. You have to have an open mind. If you're not enjoying it, don't do it. Life's too short.

  

  Debbie Meyer
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Mind

• Everything in my life that I value has been gained at the cost of not saying what I really think and saying what they want me to say.

  

  Elizabeth Moon
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Want

• Without trying, I'm different.

  

  Paul Wellstone
  • Different
  • Trying

• I'm not incapable of going through things.

  

  Colin Kaepernick

• I may be dumb, but I'm not stupid.

  

  Terry Bradshaw
  • Stupid
  • Dumb

• Asking, ‘If there is no God, what is the purpose of life?’ is like asking, ‘If there is no master, whose slave will I be?’ If your purpose of life is to submit as a slave, then your meaning comes from flattering the ego of a person whom you should detest.

  

  Dan Barker
  • Life
  • Slave
  • Submit