Bonnie Raitt Quotes

I would rather feel things in extreme than not at all.

Bonnie Raitt

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• I always turn to the sports pages first, which records people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's failures.

  

  Earl Warren
  • People
  • Man
  • Sports

• I sang a lot in college - I was in a choral group in college. But, then, when I moved to New York, I really just concentrated on acting.

  

  Callie Thorne
  • College
  • Acting
  • New York

• At the end of the day, people want to see how fast you run.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • People
  • Day
  • End

• There's been a gap between perception and reality, the perception being that California is on the cutting edge of gun safety legislation when, in fact, there are a number of areas where we have fallen behind.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Reality
  • Cutting
  • Gun

• We should involve the whole world in the handling of this refugee crisis.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • World
  • Crisis
  • Refugee

• If you don't have religious fallibilism, you have immense problems.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • You
  • Religious
  • Problems

• I work too much to be an appropriate parent. I feel like a bad mom to my dog some days because I'm just not here enough. I just feel like I would do a bad job if I took the time to literally give birth to a kid right now and try and juggle everything I'm doing.

  

  Rachael Ray
  • Time
  • Work
  • Job

• I don't have a problem with my image; it's other people who do.

  

  Samantha Fox
  • People
  • Problem
  • Image

• Never impose your language on people you wish to reach.

  

  Abbie Hoffman
  • People
  • Wish
  • Language

• Losing my parents was the most crushing thing that ever happened to me. I lost my dad when I was 26, and it changed my life entirely.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Life
  • Parents
  • Lost

• Love is not a mere impulse, it must contain truth, which is law.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Love
  • Truth
  • Law

• I am a showman by profession...and all the gilding shall make nothing else of me.

  

  P. T. Barnum

• Satan's successes are the greatest when he appears with the name of God on his lips.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • God
  • Satan

• 'That's what Jagulars always do', said Pooh, much interested. 'They call 'Help! Help!' and then when you look up, they drop on you.'

  

  A. A. Milne
  • Up
  • Help

• The artist makes art not to save mankind but to save himself. Every benevolent comment by an artist is a fog to cover his tracks, the bloody trail of his assault against reality and others.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Art
  • Reality

• So in this idea, then, everybody is fundamentally the ultimate reality. Not God in a politically kingly sense, but God in the sense of being the self, the deep-down basic whatever there is. And you're all that, only you're pretending you're not. And it's perfectly OK to pretend you're not, to be perfectly convinced, because this is the whole notion of drama.

  

  Alan Watts
  • God
  • Reality
  • Deep

• Sparrow: If you'd get a vasectomy, we wouldn't have to go through this every time.Stuart: But... but you know I want to have a baby eventually.Sparrow: So make some deposits at a sperm bank first. Then we can inseminate like normal people when we're ready.

  

  Alison Bechdel
  • People
  • Time
  • Baby

• Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.

  

  Arthur Miller
  • Up
  • Hope

• My goals have changed throughout my life. At one time it was winning awards, selling out concert dates, selling more albums than anyone else. Now, my goals are to see my grandchildren grown, live a long and healthy life with my family and friends and travel the world.

  

  Reba McEntire
  • Life
  • Time
  • World

• If you fixate on the worst-case scenario and it actually happens, you’ve lived it twice.

  

  Michael J. Fox
  • Actually
  • Twice
  • Scenario

• You exist if and only if you are free to do things without a visible objective, with no justification and, above all, outside the dictatorship of someone else’s narrative.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Free

• It is a mistake to think you cant be hurt if you don't care

  

  Errol Flynn
  • Wisdom
  • Care
  • Hurt

• Nothing of this world is not in God. Substance is not the despised materiality of bodies that must be separated from God; it is God, God under the attribute of extension or materiality. Descartes is thus mistaken, according to Spinoza, in defining matter as extension, for matter must necessarily have a conceptual equivalent, an idea, not in opposition to extension but as one of the attributes of substance.

  

  Elizabeth Grosz
  • God
  • Idea
  • Mistaken

• I would rather feel things in extreme than not at all.

  

  Bonnie Raitt