Parker Palmer Quotes

Our strongest gifts are usually those we are barely aware of possessing. They are a part of our God-given nature, with us from the moment we drew first breath, and we are no more conscious of having them than we are of breathing.

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• I'd love to do something where I can act and dance at the same time, like on Broadway or in movies.

  

  Maddie Ziegler
  • Time
  • Like
  • Dance

• The day after I got an agent, I got called in for a role in a TV movie called 'Legion Of Fire: Killer Ants.'

  

  Patrick Fugit
  • Movie
  • Day
  • Fire

• I spend all my time right now trying to combat music retail and copyright.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Time
  • Music
  • Trying

• All movies aren't fun; some are hard work. You try to do something and convey a set of emotions that have to do with some real life kind of stuff.

  

  Samuel L. Jackson
  • Life
  • Work
  • Real

• As I matriculate my way down the field of life, I will never forget this moment and you wonderful people who helped make this day possible.

  

  Hank Stram
  • People
  • Life
  • Day

• I would take plays and I would cut out all the other dialogue and make long monologues because I felt the other kids weren't taking it as seriously as I did.

  

  Sally Field
  • Long
  • Kids
  • Dialogue

• I just want to be myself and be real and be funny.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Real
  • Want
  • Funny

• I have a carbohydrate and protein-rich diet. For breakfast, I typically have two slices of bread with butter or jam, four to five eggs - boiled or fried - a few bananas and a glass of milk.

  

  Vijender Singh
  • Breakfast
  • Bread
  • Diet

• Everything is tennis for me, it's my career and it's entertainment, but it's also a business.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Business
  • Career
  • Tennis

• Most people want security in this world, not liberty.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • People
  • World
  • Security

• My people. I have given them a sense of individuality, integrity. I have not made them slaves of any god or any religion. Nor of any holy book or any priest. I have certainly not replaced their god. They are all a part of what I call my traveling circus.

  

  Rajneesh
  • People
  • God
  • Book

• Dreams are the expression of the unconscious while we are asleep.

  

  Nancy Friday
  • Dreams
  • Expression
  • While

• The 'ideal' body is everywhere you look, and we are made to feel like failures by advertisers and corporations who shame us into buying their products.

  

  Caitlin Stasey
  • Feel
  • Body
  • Look

• As educators and policy makers, it is important to demonstrate for parents the connection between high levels of student participation in assessment and system accountability - ensuring the success of every student.

  

  Kate Brown
  • Important
  • High
  • Success

• You learn something when you don't play well, and I figure that helping people, it makes me very, very happy.

  

  Yani Tseng
  • People
  • Happy
  • Learn

• You can tell when people think they're a little bit special, and it's quite fun to laugh at them, and I think it's good to laugh at them, because then you can deflate their egos a bit.

  

  Hannah Murray
  • People
  • Good
  • Fun

• 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

• My own military background is wholly un-distinguished. I was a sergeant.

  

  W. E. B. Griffin
  • Military
  • Background
  • My Own

• I tend to work on the principle that much humour relies on cognitive dissonance - on the foreground not matching the background, on the protagonist's response to a situation being inappropriate, and so on.

  

  Charles Stross
  • Work

• They say, 'The coward dies many times'; so does the beloved. Didn't the eagle find a fresh liver to tear in Prometheus every time it dined?

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Time
  • Tears
  • Coward

• An omnipotent God is the only being with no reason to lie.

  

  Mason Cooley
  • God

• Peace is in the grave. The grave hides all things beautiful and good. I am a God and cannot find it there, Nor would I seek it; for, though dread revenge, This is defeat, fierce king, not victory.

  

  Percy Bysshe Shelley
  • Good
  • God
  • Beautiful

• I'm a strict materialist - but the police are brutal materialists.

  

  Jack Williamson
  • Police
  • Materialist

• Our strongest gifts are usually those we are barely aware of possessing. They are a part of our God-given nature, with us from the moment we drew first breath, and we are no more conscious of having them than we are of breathing.

  

  Parker Palmer
  • God
  • Nature