David Fontana Quotes

All the great spiritual traditions have placed major emphasis upon meditation as a path to personal growth.

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• The people who control the condition in which we live have no reason to think beyond more than the next five or 10 years.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • People
  • Live
  • Control

• I am the last guy that wants to quit making music.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Music
  • Making
  • Quit

• In every relationship, the work is never just in the positive actions we do for each other, but in the follow up.

  

  Yehuda Berg
  • Up
  • Work
  • Relationship

• I put it to you that there are no British poets, there are no British novelists. I have heard myself described as one, but I think really I'm an English novelist; there are Scottish poets and Scottish novelists.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Think
  • Myself
  • English

• We can overcome evil with greater good.

  

  Laura Bush
  • Good
  • Evil
  • Overcome

• That does not mean that we must forego just and fair criticism, or refrain from opposition to policies which are debatable or which do not command our approval.

  

  Bainbridge Colby
  • Mean
  • Criticism
  • Just

• I just got a band together in mid-2012, and we played our first show in October of that year.

  

  Vance Joy
  • Together
  • Band
  • Year

• Technology is one of the key drivers of female economic empowerment, but the fields that women choose to participate in are still decidedly gendered.

  

  Weili Dai
  • Women
  • Technology
  • Choose

• Wrestling is something that nothing else can replace for me.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Me
  • Nothing
  • Wrestling

• I love to sing more than anything - more than acting, even.

  

  Pam Dawber
  • Love
  • Acting
  • More

• If you feel that you can just come in the studio and freestyle on my song, then I'm ready to rap battle you. That's just how I feel about it because I know I'm way harder than another rapper freestyling on my song.

  

  Young Thug
  • Song
  • Know
  • Rap

• We live in a society where nothing is sacred.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Live
  • Society
  • Sacred

• I loved 'Pan's Labyrinth.' It transported me into another world. I like fantasy worlds; I love 'Lord of the Rings' as well, for that reason, because you really get to get out of reality and go somewhere else.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • World
  • Reason
  • Loved

• The publishing of a book is a worldwide event. The attempt to suppress a book is a worldwide event.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Book
  • Event
  • Attempt

• Contemporary fiction is the hardest for me because I am not really in the popular culture - I don't watch TV.

  

  Gail Carson Levine
  • Culture
  • Popular
  • Fiction

• Metaphorically, every vagina has secret teeth, for the male exits as less than when he entered. The basic mechanics of conception require action in the male but nothing more than passive receptivity in the female.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Action

• Peace may sound simple - one beautiful word - but it requires everything we have, every quality, every strength, every dream, every high ideal.

  

  Yehudi Menuhin
  • May
  • High
  • Beautiful

• It is generally admitted that most grown-up people, however regrettably, will try to have a good time.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• We suffered a tragedy not one of us could have thought would happen in our country. And we picked ourselves up and sorted ourselves out as all good British people do, and I thought, let us stand together for we are British! They were trying to destroy the fundamental freedom that is the birth-right of every British citizen, freedom, justice and democracy.

  

  Margaret Thatcher
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• Boston was a great town to go to college in. Maybe that's why there's so many colleges there. I love the town, and I loved Boston University.

  

  Jason Alexander
  • Great
  • Why
  • College

• All the great utterances of man have to be judged not by the letter but by the spirit - the spirit which unfolds itself with the growth of life in history.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Life
  • Great
  • History

• Occasionally I was so much better that I could go out; but the streets used to put me in such a rage that I would lock myself up for days rather than go out, even if I were well enough to do so! I could not bear to see all those preoccupied, anxious-looking creatures continuously surging along the streets past me! Why are they always anxious? What is the meaning of their eternal care and worry? It is their wickedness, their perpetual detestable malice-that's what it is-they are all full of malice, malice!

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Creatures
  • Streets
  • Wickedness

• Bringing up issues that are hard to deal with is a challenge for me, and I think that's what draws me to song writing.

  

  Brett Dennen
  • Challenge
  • Issues
  • Songwriting

• All the great spiritual traditions have placed major emphasis upon meditation as a path to personal growth.

  

  David Fontana
  • Spiritual
  • Growth
  • Meditation