Dan Barker Quotes
As humanists, we urge today, as in the past that humans not look beyond themselves for salvation. We alone are responsible for our own destiny and the best we can do is muster our intelligence, courage, and compassion to realize our highest aspirations.
Quotes to Explore
-
Hollywood, the business, would be just fine if someone were to destroy the Hollywood sign. The city's there is the airport - its point of entry and exit, and in some ways its identity.
-
Right now I'm so old that if I had a big gush of money, I don't know what I'd do with it. I don't travel anymore. I don't need anything, don't want anything. I'd give it to my son, I guess, and let him enjoy it.
-
I'm definitely not a super great guitarist. Ultimately, I just write a lot of love songs.
-
After I lost my fiance, it seemed like it would be better to always be alone than to risk being hurt again.
-
My dad's funny. He's laid back and a cool guy.
-
Yeah, I like to have fun - I think that's a good way to live. I think you're better at your job if you like it.
-
God gave women intuition and femininity. Used properly, the combination easily jumbles the brain of any man I've ever met.
-
The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment; it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others; it is in yourself alone.
-
Successful people are not interesting. I feel for the losers. That's where my heart lies.
-
An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.
-
I'm very aware and very conscious of the path I chose in life, and very aware of the path I didn't choose.
-
Every single one of us can do things that no one else can do - can love things that no one else can love. We are like violins. We can be used for doorstops, or we can make music. You know what to do.
-
It felt scary because there was no auditioning, no rehearsing.
-
In the best possible scenario, whenever you get notes from people, they're good notes, and they see things that you wouldn't have seen otherwise, and they make you a better writer.
-
History develops, art stands still.
-
If you catch me coming out of a film, when I'm emotionally involved, I can tell you at that moment why I like it – but to talk about it years later is not logical to me.
-
If this whole acting thing doesn't work out, I'll just get a talk show.
-
No, men and women of the Irish race, we shall not fight for England. We shall fight for the destruction of the British Empire and the construction of an Irish republic.
-
Every transfinite consistent multiplicity, that is, every transfinite set, must have a definite aleph as its cardinal number.
-
I have viewed the West as if it were not only the salvation of China but also the natural and ultimate destination of all humanity.
-
The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.
-
I deeply wished I could make the stars all come down and breathe them; disappear in them.
-
As humanists, we urge today, as in the past that humans not look beyond themselves for salvation. We alone are responsible for our own destiny and the best we can do is muster our intelligence, courage, and compassion to realize our highest aspirations.
