Lord Byron Quotes

We are all the fools of time and terror: Days Steal on us and steal from us; yet we live, Loathing our life, and dreading still to die.

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• LeBron James can get a shot off under any and all circumstances and he makes them.

  

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• For me, a great fantasy is real people, a world I recognise, human struggle and magic. You've got to have magic to make a fantasy work. But I like my magic to be subtle. I don't want magic coming out of the hands of wizards. I want it to be pervading, sinister somehow.

  

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• I'm really nerdy, and I read a lot.

  

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• Well, one thing, you got to stand in a courtroom and listen to a judge sentencing you to 25 years in prison before you realize that freedom of expression can no longer be taken for granted.

  

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• I love to have a band, but dancers are my priority because I really want a show, you know?

  

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• Here in America, just as we see such incredible progress happening in one state, we see another state passing absolutely disgusting and oppressive laws against the rights of all sorts of people - transgender people, gay people, women.

  

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• If you're on a freeway and want to know if you're being followed, what you do is enormously vary your speed. You accelerate to 100 and slow down to 30 and then accelerate again. In a city, you make a lot of turns against the stream of traffic. You go around a roundabout twice.

  

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• Bitterness is the outcome of a wrong mental movement - the attempt to force external events to conform to internal fantasy. The cure is to see fantasy as fantasy, which will reveal it as neither necessary nor rewarding.

  

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• I think about God, yes, and I wonder if there is a God. And if there is a God, will God please help me through my hard trips.

  

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• How do I confront aging? With a wonder and a terror. Yeah, I'll say that. Wonder and terror.

  

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• That is a strange phenomenon, people pretending to be other people.

  

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• For people who have health insurance, we can provide health insurance reforms that make the insurance they have more secure. And we can do that mostly by using money that every expert agrees is being wasted and is currently in the existing health care system.

  

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• You have to be where you are to get where you need to go.

  

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• I lost most of my weight from breastfeeding and I encourage women to do it; It's just so good for the baby and good for yourself.

  

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• I feel overestimated.

  

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• You never exist quite so much as when you are not thinking.

  

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• We always feel better in anticipation. You don't think about something and think 'Aw, it's gonna be shitty.' NO! You say 'This is gonna be the greatest weekend ever! Sonuvabitch!' And then, by Monday, you're throwing up and you're thinking 'You know, I always thought those guys were pricks!'

  

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• The greatest glory of a building is not in its stones, nor in its gold. Its glory is in its Age, and in that deep sense of voicefulness, of stern watching, of mysterious sympathy... which we feel in walls that have long been washed by the passing waves of humanity.

  

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• If a man has gold, he lives with the terror that someone will take it away from him, so he builds walls around it. Then everyone knows where the gold is, so they come and take it. That’s the way it always goes, brother. Fools and gold, together.

  

  Conn Iggulden
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• We are all the fools of time and terror: Days Steal on us and steal from us; yet we live, Loathing our life, and dreading still to die.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Terror
  • Fools
  • Our lIfe