Don Henley Quotes

We satisfy our endless needs and justify our bloody deeds in the name of destiny and in the name of God.

Don Henley The Eagles

• Satisfy
• Endless
• Name Of God
• Bloody deeds

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• Whenever there were parties, I wasn't invited because I began to be like that character. In a way, that contributed to the success of the performance.

  

  F. Murray Abraham
  • Character
  • Success
  • Way

• As a musician usually music is your way out.

  

  Damon Albarn Gorillaz
  • Music
  • Way
  • Musician

• I would go from one city to the next, inspired by the monks in the Middle Ages, who would carry knowledge from one monastery to the next monastery.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • Knowledge
  • City
  • Inspired

• If you imagine your friend is recommending you content on a topic they're an expert on, they can do a really good job of that. They know what you're interested in, they know your personality, they know if you have a scientific type of mind-set or not.

  

  Adam D'Angelo
  • Good
  • Mind
  • Job

• Procrastination gives you time to consider divergent ideas, to think in nonlinear ways, to make unexpected leaps.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Time
  • Ideas
  • Unexpected

• Psychologists have hitherto failed to realize that imagination is a necessary ingredient of perception itself.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Imagination
  • Perception

• Years of love have been forgotIn the hatred of a minute.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe

• You wouldn't think it would but my parents were really balanced about that. When it came time for me to be out of the house and out on my own they were very supportive.

  

  Elmer Bernstein
  • Time
  • House
  • Parents

• I'm still a reservist. We have three drilling reservists in the Senate. Senator Graham serves in the Air Force, Senator Brown serves in the Army, and I serve in the Navy.

  

  Mark Kirk
  • Air
  • Army

• Every book that doesn't first have to get past a gatekeeper or two, or 10, before being put in front of the public will be worse.

  

  Chris Pavone
  • Book
  • Past

• An album, for me, is not just a commercial product. It's about presenting a world to people, for them to explore and enjoy. How they do that is up to them.

  

  Alison Goldfrapp
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• It's possible of course, especially when you're young, to read a book and take it to your heart. And you don't need to speak to anybody about it - it's so important to you: You have found it.

  

  James Salter
  • Important
  • Heart
  • Book

• Biomedical research is only as good as its delivery. Distribution of medicines by charities is no more than a stopgap.

  

  John Sulston
  • Good

• I am thrilled at the prospect of being in Dubai after more than two decades.

  

  Ilie Nastase
  • Decades
  • Thrilled
  • Dubai

• The Coen brothers said something that helped me, "When you put the book down, you have a certain feeling, a certain understanding. That's what they need to feel when they walk out of the theater. That's your job, to literally put this book on film, you won't make a good movie, you'll do no service to anyone.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Good
  • Job
  • Book

• Out of respect for the things that I was never destined to do, I have learned that my strengths are a result of my weaknesses, my success is due to my failures, and my style is directly related to my limitations.

  

  Billy Joel
  • Success
  • Respect
  • Style

• It is only to clear from history that states rarely keep faith with each other, save in so far (and so long) as their promises seem to them to combine with their interests.

  

  B. H. Liddell Hart
  • Long
  • History
  • Faith

• A narcissism shared by two.

  

  Rita Mae Brown
  • Two
  • Narcissism
  • Shared

• Chess has given me a lot more than I could ask for. I have been able to feel special, travel the world and do what I truly enjoy. Moreover, chess players love being their own boss and hate having to wake up early!

  

  Viswanathan Anand
  • Hate
  • Player
  • Enjoy

• As I would soon learn myself, cleaning up what a parent leaves behind stirs up dust, both literal and metaphorical. It dredges up memories. You feel like you're a kid again, poking around in your parents' closet, only this time there's no chance of getting in trouble, so you don't have to be so sure that everything gets put back exactly where it was before you did your poking around. Still, you hope to find something, or maybe you fear finding something, that will completely change your conception of the parent you thought you knew.

  

  Roz Chast
  • Kids
  • Chance
  • Memories

• The possibilities were endless. Battles would be fought. Wonders revealed. Many journeys. Many lands. Many joys. Many sorrows. But stories all...

  

  William Joyce
  • Possibilities
  • Endless
  • Fought

• It is not how we breed, keep and kill animals for human consumption that has been the impetus for vegetarianism for thousands of years. It is that we breed, keep and kill animals for human consumption. Throughout the centuries the common thread in the arguments against eating animals is the fact that since we have no nutritional requirement for the flesh or fluids of animals, killing them to simply satisfy our taste-buds or habits or customs amounts to senseless slaughter, and senseless slaughter is no small thing.

  

  Colleen Patrick-Goudreau
  • Animals
  • Eating
  • Killing

• I don't want to be the center of attention, which is ironic. I hate having all eyes on me - unless it's for my job, and my job is playing football. I'm not that attention-hungry.

  

  Cam Newton
  • Job
  • Hate
  • Attention

• We satisfy our endless needs and justify our bloody deeds in the name of destiny and in the name of God.

  

  Don Henley The Eagles
  • Satisfy
  • Endless
  • Name Of God