Dan Barker Quotes

Faith is not the result of fuzy thinking. It is the cause of it.

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• I took religion much too seriously, however, and its overall effect was depressing. I would have really liked to discard it, but somehow I couldn't.

  

  Jack Dee
  • Religion
  • Seriously
  • Effect

• 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

• All paths are the same, leading nowhere. Therefore, pick a path with heart!

  

  Carlos Castaneda
  • Heart
  • Path
  • Same

• My mother has a tremendous amount of pride and self-respect. She won't take assistance from anybody.

  

  Victor Mitchell
  • She
  • Mother
  • Respect

• The book is the only medium left that hasn’t been corrupted by the profane.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Book

• Man’s craving for the supernatural is as natural as our discounting of the present moment... The natural becomes trite and commonplace to us and we take refuge in an imaginary world above and beyond it.

  

  John Burroughs
  • World
  • Present
  • Supernatural

• ‘…Women I do not much care for myself - I prefer little Greek shepherd-boys…’

  

  Anthony Burgess
  • Greek

• I think food is getting lighter and healthier because people eat out so often. It's about quality ingredients because that is the root of good food.

  

  Jean-Georges Vongerichten
  • People
  • Good
  • Food

• I've met so many remarkable people so far, coming up through stand-up all these years, who just aren't alive anymore. Because they are dead. Some really great people who helped change my life and career, people like Richard Pryor, Sam Kinison, Rodney Dangerfield, Johnny Carson.

  

  Bob Saget
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• I don't make films, and because I don't make films, I'm not an expert in the craft of bringing a film into the world, how you put its various pieces together. But where I feel like I'm an expert is my own feelings in response to a film.

  

  Leslie Jamison
  • World
  • Together

• Never think that Jesus commanded a trifle, nor dare to trifle with anything He has commanded.

  

  Dwight L. Moody
  • Jesus

• The establishment is a dirty, dangerous beast, and the BBC is a mouthpiece for that.

  

  Ken Stott
  • Dirty

• The boundary between real life and acting is hard to find.

  

  James Mangold
  • Life
  • Real

• I feel very privileged to have reached so many kids because a life without stories, without the power of books, would be a very grey world, it's good to add colour.

  

  Anthony Horowitz
  • Life
  • World
  • Good

• The passion of the Italian or the Italian-American population is endless for food and lore and everything about it.

  

  Mario Batali
  • American
  • Food
  • Passion

• I really do feel like music is the only thing that I can do.

  

  John Grant
  • Music

• I firmly believe that we have more latent musical talent in America than there is in any other country. But to dig it out there must be good music throughout the land, a lot of it. Everyone must hear it, and such a process takes time.

  

  John Philip Sousa
  • Time
  • Good
  • Music

• My stepdad is Bruce Jenner, the Olympian. The first time he came over was like a blind date, and we had show and tell. He took out the gold medal for me and my sisters, and we were like, 'So? Who the hell are you?'

  

  Kourtney Kardashian
  • Time
  • Gold

• We're a strange animal, so often destroying what we love for selfish ends, and yet tantalized by the sense that there are other choices if only we had strength to make them. In the politics of 400 years ago, we find the same questions we battle with today.

  

  Roland Joffe
  • Choices
  • Animal
  • Strange

• A few years ago you couldn't go from TV to film. It was like a 'no no' but I believe when you find a plan and purpose that God has for your life, there's not anything man can do to you. Especially when your faith is not really standing in the wisdom of man, you're really standing in the wisdom of God.

  

  Derek Luke
  • Life
  • God
  • Believe

• You like to think that it's something you created, but secretly you know that you had some kind of help, or somebody gave this to you.

  

  Neil Diamond
  • Thinking
  • Help
  • Kind

• My love has placed her little hand With noble faith in mine, And vowed that wedlock's sacred band Our nature shall entwine. My love has sworn, with sealing kiss, With me to live -- to die; I have at last my nameless bliss: As I love -- loved am I!

  

  Charlotte Bronte
  • Faith
  • Noble
  • Mine

• Faith is not the result of fuzy thinking. It is the cause of it.

  

  Dan Barker
  • Thinking
  • Faith
  • Belief