Katy Butler Quotes

I don't think people ever were free of fear of death, but clinging to life and being so unprepared for it is a modern experience.

Katy Butler

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• I am aware of the sufferings of women in India, which is also the suffering of women in many, many countries on our planet. My heart is filled with empathy and love for them.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Women
  • Empathy
  • Planet

• There's no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another.

  

  E. B. White
  • Always
  • Complicated
  • Limit

• We must start to treat climate change as what it is - a threat to United States security. And we must not delay.

  

  Jackie Speier
  • Change
  • Climate Change

• Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • World
  • Small
  • inspirational

• When the 'Seinfeld' show said it was going to be a show about nothing, everybody said it couldn't - wouldn't work. It did. 'Thor' is about something, about that character finding his destiny, but it's not doing what was expected... and yet it's doing very well.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Work
  • Character
  • Destiny

• Every 20 minutes you've got to have a bump, you've got to have a change in course, you've got to unsettle the audience. It can't be too predictable so something has to happen. I think that was something that Hitchcock did very well too. You couldn't let an audience feel too settled in.

  

  Barbara Broccoli
  • Think
  • You
  • Change

• I stayed in the ghetto. Then I stayed in condos, then I stayed in penthouses, and then I stayed in mansions.

  

  Young Thug
  • Ghetto
  • Then
  • Mansions

• Arguably Apple's least successful core hardware product in decades, the Apple Watch could have been nursed along, like a terminal patient.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Successful
  • Product
  • Apple

• I'm not at the hoarder stage, but there are two or three storage units here and there. I have things that a lot of people put a lot of heart and soul into, a lot of mental energy. I'm good at keeping those things. When it comes to pop culture, as you move through this fast lane, you wonder where it all goes and how you can hold onto it.

  

  Taylor Hicks
  • People
  • Good
  • Heart

• Those shows I did with Queen were pretty surreal. I was really excited and super-flattered, but intimidated at the same time.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Time
  • Pretty
  • Same

• I never liked my father. He really was a dullard and misanthrope. My mother and he were married for 22, years and it was an ill match. She encouraged me to be a writer. She opened her home to black friends, and this was the 1950s. She didn't care later when I write about her.

  

  Edmund White
  • Home
  • She
  • Friends

• Mike Bloomberg may be a Republican these days. But he has been a Democrat for most of his adult life.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • Life
  • May
  • Republican

• Like the Earth, the Web is a less appealing place than it used to be. If I want attitude and arguing and meanness and profanity and wrong information screamed at me as gospel, I'll get in a time machine and spend Christmas with my family in 1977.

  

  J. R. Moehringer
  • Time
  • Family
  • Earth

• If a woman gets tough in negotiations, she's difficult, whereas a man would be considered a brilliant businessman.

  

  Tamara Mellon
  • She
  • Man
  • Woman

• People who meet me as an adult are often surprised that I'm alive and have never been in prison or rehab. Sometimes they're disappointed I'm not cooler.

  

  Mara Wilson
  • People
  • Alive
  • Prison

• As an artist, you're pretty sheltered backstage. You often don't know what's going on out there.

  

  Gavin Rossdale Bush
  • Pretty
  • You
  • Know

• I had a really hard time when I was 16, 17, 18. I started with the eating disorder in high school.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • Time
  • School
  • High

• 'I'm not going to do just nothing anymore.''You mean never again?''Well, not so much. They don't let you.'

  

  A. A. Milne

• In fact, it is a farce to call any being virtuous whose virtues do not result from the exercise of its own reason.

  

  Mary Wollstonecraft
  • Exercise

• Be strong then, and enter into your own body; there you have a solid place for your feet.

  

  Kabir
  • Strong
  • Healing
  • Feet

• We often sometimes forget that- prior to the invention of removable pipe- there really were no English Bibles. We have treasures, we have Bibles in every size and shape and color. But there's a failure to recognize what's contained inside the cover of the Bible. We grow apathetic, and I think that the issue is reacting to the Word of God. Not just carrying, but get back into the Word of God and then get the Word of God into us. It's all about mining the scripture, memorizing the scripture, and meditating with our scripture.

  

  Hank Hanegraaff
  • Thinking
  • Failure
  • Forget

• Every year lays more earth upon us, which weighs us down from aerial regions, till we go under the earth at last.

  

  E. T. A. Hoffmann
  • Death
  • Earth
  • Years

• True friends: only a few have 'em, but only a few will admit that they don't.

  

  Brian Celio
  • Friends
  • True

• I don't think people ever were free of fear of death, but clinging to life and being so unprepared for it is a modern experience.

  

  Katy Butler
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Death