Avett Brothers Lyrics Quotes & Sayings

In times of strong emotion mankind disdain all base considerations. — Herman Melville

The Bible says that two cannot walk together unless they are agreed. — Peter Akinola

No one can ride on the back of a man unless it is bent. — Mahatma Gandhi

I think 'The Wire' is my all-time favorite TV show. It's so brilliant, the way it critiques society, and how it handles that everybody who gets power loses their moral code and stops going to the root of the problem and just tries to maintain their own power. — Joel Kinnaman

Life & Death are beyond our control. We can't control where, how, or when we are born & we can't control where, how, or when we may die. Then why Worry about it. -RVM — R.v.m.

I look forward to a future of boredom and suffering, since I'm too cowardly to put an end to my days. I'll just go on: clubbing, snorting, drinking and persecuting the fools of the world. — Lolita Pille

You can only look forward to a South Dakota winter if, as with childbirth, remodeling a house, or writing a novel, you're able to forget how bad it was the last time. — Dan O'Brien

Marine. Say the word to any American, and you can count on a strong reaction. — Tom Clancy

Living as a couple never means that each gets half. You must take turns at giving more than getting. It's not the same as a bow to the other whether to dine out rather than in, or which one gets massaged that evening with oil of calendula; there are seasons in the life of a couple that function, I think, a little like a night watch. One stands guard, often for a long time, providing the serenity in which the other can work at something. Usually that something is sinewy and full of spines. One goes inside the dark place while the other one stays outside, holding up the moon. — Marlena De Blasi

Elections are held to delude the populace into believing that they are participating in government. — Gerald F. Lieberman

Anything short of getting to a place where we can be put up as ambassadors of Heaven is a misnomer. — Bidemi Mark-Mordi

I met my wife in New York, so, we lived together there for five years, so my Swedish was kind of a gradual learning process. — Greg Poehler

As an artist you have to fight and survive the wilderness to keep your creative freedom. Creativity is very fragile. — Karel Appel

When I published my first novel, 'Slammed,' I included lyrics at the beginning of each chapter from one of my favorite bands, The Avett Brothers. The overwhelmingly positive response from readers to those lyrics really surprised me. — Colleen Hoover

Essex was just a shadow in the room, the shadow of a thing I wanted, which was itself a shadow of wanting. But it was unspeakably sweet to feel even that, and terrifying to know how quickly it would pass. A moment inscribed on water, a memory that would fade to grey. I was nothing but a ghost hunter, chasing the wraith of the man I used to be. A beachcomber of my own detritus. — Alexis Hall