Dan Barker Quotes

The very concept of sin comes from the Bible. Christianity offers to solve a problem of its own making! Would you be thankful to a person who cut you with a knife in order to sell you a bandage?

Dan Barker

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• My problem with new writers is that it takes me five or six years to memorise the right names.

  

  Larry Niven
  • Problem
  • Right
  • Names

• Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot return.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Sin
  • Paradise
  • Return

• I don't like the NFL, where I think it's a problem: some guy scores a touchdown, now he's got some kind of dance that he planned. To me, I just want to change the channel.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Guy
  • Change
  • Problem

• Whenever there is fear, you will get wrong figures.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • Fear
  • You
  • Wrong

• I'm not very good at going to sleep, and that's probably my worst problem. I don't need much more than seven and a half hours, but I probably get six. I take all my problems to bed with me and fret. I can't switch off.

  

  Harriet Walter
  • Good
  • Problem
  • Sleep

• Sometimes the biggest problem is in your head. You've got to believe you can play a shot instead of wondering where your next bad shot is coming from.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Believe
  • Bad
  • Problem

• The first step in solving a problem is to recognize that it does exist.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Problem
  • Step
  • First Step

• An excellent habit to cultivate is the analytical study of the King James Bible. For simple yet rich and forceful English, this masterly production is hard to equal; and even though its Saxon vocabulary and poetic rhythm be unsuited to general composition, it is an invaluable model for writers on quaint or imaginative themes.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Simple
  • Study
  • English

• When someone fears losing your affection, he or she will strive to keep it. Perhaps you have strived to keep someone's affection, too. Fear of loss is not love.

  

  Gary Zukav
  • Love
  • Fear
  • For Him

• You know, I said I have this problem that I need to more carefully read Akron's text because it's too much, too much fantasy, and so I am busy with other stuff - it's funny, it's nice to hear that someone is studying that carefully and now I know a little bit more about that.

  

  H. R. Giger
  • Funny
  • Nice
  • Problem

• Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Death
  • Fear
  • Faith

• 'My face and your faces shall not be masked; our hand shall hold neither sword nor sceptre, and our subjects shall love us in peace and shall not be in fear of us.' Thus spoke Jesus, and unto all the kingdoms of the earth I was blinded, and unto all the cities of walls and towers; and it was in my heart to follow the Master to His kingdom.

  

  Kahlil Gibran
  • Heart
  • Earth
  • Fear

• It takes a little more persistence to get up and go the distanceI'm not giving inI'm not missing outI'm not giving up on implausible dreams - The Enemy Within (Part I of 'Fear') (1984)

  

  Neil Peart Rush
  • Up
  • Giving
  • Fear

• Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Men
  • Children
  • Death

• The thing is, I feel like it would defeat the purpose of being a musician if I let any kind of fear of failure affect my songwriting or making an album or whatever.

  

  Frankie Cosmos
  • Fear
  • Purpose
  • Failure

• Without the compassionate understanding of the fear and trepidation that lie behind courageous speech, we are bound only to our arrogance.

  

  David Whyte
  • Fear
  • Understanding

• The reason advertising is governed by fear, after all, is that most agencies rely on just a few clients to bring in the lion's share of their revenues.

  

  James Surowiecki
  • Fear
  • Lion

• Why fear death? It is the most beautiful adventure in life.

  

  Charles Frohman
  • Life
  • Why
  • Death

• We manage the fear, I manage the fear, but it certainly takes its toll, the strain does.

  

  Christiane Amanpour
  • Fear

• Emotions are products of our mind, and we can actually train ourselves to choose whether we banish or embrace them.

  

  Mariella Frostrup
  • Mind

• A good tale evil told were better untold, and an evil take well told need none other solicitor.

  

  Thomas More
  • Evil
  • Needs
  • Wells

• I guess when you don’t have success any more, as with The Warmer Side of Cool, you either give up and feel bitter about it or, if you are a real musician, you get up and dust yourself down and just keep going.

  

  Jack Hues Wang Chung
  • Success
  • Give Up
  • Keep Going

• Campaign may invite a certain skepticism about democracy, but it will surely restore your faith in cinema verite.

  

  Anthony Oliver "A. O." Scott
  • May
  • Faith
  • Democracy

• The very concept of sin comes from the Bible. Christianity offers to solve a problem of its own making! Would you be thankful to a person who cut you with a knife in order to sell you a bandage?

  

  Dan Barker
  • Fear
  • Problem
  • Bible