Barbone Quotes & Sayings

Very bad things follow when we kid ourselves that we're naturally rational, rather than the more humbling truth: naturally emotional. — Robert Webb

I don't pay much attention to the press. My films always get good reviews and bad reviews. I just try to make the best film I can. — Paul Haggis

We live in a world of evaluations, assessments, and measurements, but Jesus turns his gaze deeper because he knows that what is measurable can be faked. — Scot McKnight

Over the course of several articles, I will give you the tools to become a sentence connoisseur as well as a sentence artisan. Each of my lessons will give you the insight to appreciate fine sentences and the vocabulary to talk about them. — Constance Hale

Harshaw held that certain feet were made for stepping on, in order to improve the breed, promote the general welfare, and minimize the ancient insolence of office; he had seen at once that Heinrich had such feet. — Robert A. Heinlein

The freer you feel yourself in the presence of another, the more free is he. — Johann Kaspar Lavater

This is a hard world to be ludicrous in, with so many human beings so reluctant to laugh, so incapable of thought, so eager to believe and snarl and hate. — Kurt Vonnegut

Institutions mistake good intentions for objectives. They say "health care"; that's an intention, not an objective. — Peter Drucker

Of little worth as life is when we misuse it, it is worth that effort. It would cost nothing to lay down if it were not. — Charles Dickens

You will seek Creator, you find Him. — Lailah Gifty Akita

All the great things of humanity have been accomplished in the name of absolute principles. — Ernest Renan

I taught for a semester, but couldn't work out my teaching schedule with my acting schedule because they just didn't jive. So, I had to make a decision. And by sheer luck, I'm sure, I have not stopped working as an actor. — Danny Burstein

You trust a thief when you trust a woman. — Hesiod

You belong, Jaz. You're a human being. Color isn't what you are.
It's just your shade. You're beautiful. Inside. Where it counts. — Janet Gurtler

I believe that the science of chemistry alone almost proves the existence of an intelligent creator. — Thomas A. Edison