Bairs Quotes & Sayings

You hear entertainers all the time, saying, 'If I couldn't get paid for this, I'd do it for free.' When's the last time you ever heard a business person say, 'If I couldn't get paid for being chairman of British Petroleum, I'd do it for free'? — Dick Gregory

My children's books are written on the belief that every child has a talent and a passion. Each story unfolds into an adventure of nurturing that confidence until a passion blooms. — Masiela Lusha

I'm not saving you, I remind her. But something makes me wonder if she even wants me to. — Alexandra Bracken

Many a spoken word is more piercing than an attack. — Ali Ibn Abi Talib

Nobody owns life, but anyone who can pick up a frying pan owns death. — William S. Burroughs

I asked, how is knowledge found?
'You must learn how to read, little sister,' he said. — David Mitchell

We don't see the world in the same manner — Bangambiki Habyarimana

The way you remember the past depends upon your hope for the future. And if what you see in your future has no hope, it has no potential, then you view the past that brought you to here as not very good. — Story Musgrave

Well, we must live and learn. — Jane Austen

Want people to rock out in the car and not care that people are watching, I love that feeling when the sequences are all perfect and you can just press play. I want the music to take you on a journey. — Blake Lewis

People create their own gods so that they could compete with other people's gods. It is not the humanity that fights but human gods. God war. Good war. — Aporva Kala

Many a life has been injured by the constant expectation of death. It is life we have to do with, not death. The best preparation for the night is to work diligently while the day lasts. The best preparation for death is life. — George MacDonald

As thinkers, mankind has ever divided into two sects, Materialists and Idealists; the first class founding on experience, the second on consciousness; the first class beginning to think from the data of the senses, the second class perceive that the senses are not final and say, The senses give us representations of things, but what are the things themselves, they cannot tell. The materialist insists on facts, on history, on the force of circumstances and the animal wants of man; the idealists on the power of Thought and Will, on inspiration, on miracle, on individual culture. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I want true love in this life, and true contentment and peace. But maybe the only way I can find those things is to let go of the belief that this life is my reality. — Elizabeth Kim

Ronan woke up the following morning with a terrible hangover and a huge sense of regret. He had hurt the woman he loves most in the world and he knew Katie was very strong willed and didn't forgive easily. — Annette J. Dunlea