Barbour Quotes & Sayings

Thank You, Lord, for the incredible gift of Your presence in each and every situation I face. Allow me to remember this and to call upon Your name as I go about each day. — Barbour Publishing Inc.

I'm sick of the images trapped in my head
I'm sick of being preoccupied with the dead — Jessica-Lynn Barbour

19 Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus, 20 By a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh; — Barbour Publishing Inc.

In politics, purity is the enemy of victory — Haley Barbour

learn from my mistakes. If you find something good, don't let it slip away. You can find all kinds of reasons to justify why you don't deserve to be happy, but it's all bullshit." "Auntie!" "It is," she said with conviction. "So you just keep that in mind when you're busy getting lost in your head." - — Victoria Barbour

What really intrigues me is that the totality of all possible Nows of any definite kind has a very special structure. You can think of it as a landscape or country. Each point in the country is a Now. — Julian Barbour

Most Americans are more concerned about the economy and job creation. And they can't understand why the Obama administration or the Democrat majority in Congress wants to pass a bill like the cap-and-trade tax that will cost us jobs, that will hurt our economy, that will drive up costs for families, as well as for small businesses. — Haley Barbour

The Goal of Science is understanding lawful relations among natural phenomena.
Religion is a way of life within a larger framework of meaning. — Ian Barbour

paradise for people who look as if they have just stepped out of a Barbour catalogue. — Bill Bryson

Dead flowers stood rotting in the massive Chinese vases and a shut-up heaviness overweighed the room: the air almost too stale to breathe, the exact, suffocating feel of our apartment when Mrs. Barbour took me back to Sutton Place to get some things I needed. It was a stillness I knew; this was a house closed in on itself when someone died. — Donna Tartt

Will I ever see the mountains or am I doomed to roam the flatlands? — Jessica-Lynn Barbour

We dreamt of a crappy apartment somewhere
Making love while we let the midnight air
Flow through the open window, into our closed hearts
Left bitter from heartbreak and too much time apart — Jessica-Lynn Barbour

In His Presence Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need. HEBREWS 4:16 KJV — Barbour Publishing Inc.

If time is a line, it is a special one. — John Barbour

When I became governor, spending actually increased 28 percent my first term. Revenue increased 42 percent my first term without raising anybody's taxes. We did it because we had more taxpayers with more taxable income. That's how you get the revenue up. We did that without raising anybody's taxes. — Haley Barbour

The instant is not in time
time is in the instant. — John Barbour

There is a voice in my head that is only silenced by the scratching of my pen — Jessica-Lynn Barbour

I'm floored that the House leadership would turn its back on job creation for Mississippians. — Haley Barbour

My ideas about time all developed from the realization that if nothing were to change we could not say that time passes. Change is primary, time, if it exists at all, is something we deduce from it. — Julian Barbour

The passage of time is simply an illusion created by our brains. — Julian Barbour

Elsie's shop was a treasure chest, where green wellies and waxed jackets originated way before Hunter and Barbour became household names. If she did not have what you wanted, dearie, she would go up to her vast attic, root around and come down to announce in triumph she had exactly the right thing even if you hadn't been looking for it. Some said her attics went back as far as Broadhampton Bay. — Maddie Grigg

There is nothing like a good negative review to sell a book. — Hugh Barbour

(When I'd asked Mrs. Barbour where the washing machine was, she'd looked at me as if I'd asked for lye and lard to boil up for soap.) — Donna Tartt

If nothing happened, if nothing changed, time would stop. For time is nothing but change. It is change we see occurring all around us, not time. In fact, time doesn't exist. — Julian Barbour

By forgiving, we can move forward, knowing that God has good things in store for us. And the heaviness of spirit is lifted, and relief washes over us after we've forgiven. A new sense of hope and expectancy rises. I forgive you. Do you need to say those words today? — Barbour Publishing Inc.

Traveling down a road of self-destruction
With no room for any reconstruction — Jessica-Lynn Barbour

Perhaps the most energetic and persistent advocate of the claim that time is illusory is the British physicist Julian Barbour. Impressively, Barbour has managed to do interesting research in physics for decades now without any academic position, publishing dozens of papers in respected journals. He has supported himself in part by translating technical papers from Russian to English - in his spare time, tirelessly investigating the idea that time does not exist, constructing theoretical models of classical and quantum gravity in which time plays no fundamental role. — Anonymous

You are the music of the spheres heard from the particular vantage point that is you. — Julian B. Barbour

The decision is 'trust fund' versus 'no more Medicaid' - and that shouldn't be a tough decision. — Haley Barbour

Our view of nature will influence the way we treat nature, and our view of human nature will affect our understanding of human responsibility. — Ian Barbour

I'm a lobbyist and had a career lobbying. The guy who gets elected or the lady who gets elected president of the United States will immediately be lobbying. They would be advocating to the Congress, they'll be lobbying our allies and our adversaries overseas. They'll be asking the business community and labor unions. — Haley Barbour

The Obama administration and the Democratic Congress have taken the biggest lurch to the left in policy in American history. There've been no - no Congress, no administration that has run this far to the left in such a small period of time. And there is a reaction to that. — Haley Barbour

We know that acid rain has had no significant environmental effect on trees or forests in the United States ... It is based on popular myths and half-baked theories. — Haley Barbour

During the next week, everyone noticed that my appetite had improved, even Toddy.

"Are you done with your hunger strike?" he asked me curiously, one morning.
"Toddy, eat your breakfast."
"But I thought that was what it was called. When people don't eat."
"No, a hunger strike is for people in prison," Kitsey said coolly.
"Kitten," said Mr. Barbour, in a warning tone.
"Yes, but he ate three waffles yesterday," said Toddy, looking eagerly between his uninterested parents in an attempt to engage them. "I only ate two waffles. And this morning he ate a bowl of cereal and six pieces of bacon, but you said five pieces of bacon was too much for me. Why can't I have five pieces, too? — Donna Tartt

I grew up in the countryside and always used to wear my parents' Barbour jackets. It is a fantastic British heritage brand. — Alice Temperley

Doubt frees us from illusions of having captured God in a creed; it calls into question every religious symbol. — Ian G. Barbour

If left unattended by nonvigilant citizens, the freedoms of democracy can be lost to an all-powerful state, and citizens can become transformed into subjects of the government they failed to keep in check. — Christine Barbour

Barbour, who had come down to the curb with me, said smoothly: — Donna Tartt

There are things that I would say that you could call an instant of time; or better, a now. As we live we seem to move through a succession of instants of time, nows, and the question is, what are they? There are where everything in the universe is at this moment, now. — Julian Barbour

The media like a good fight. They pick out the extremes and they leave out all the people in the middle who believe in both God and evolution. — Ian Barbour

Friday night's alright for fighting
Saturday, Sunday, Monday too
Every night is a night of fighting
With family and friends like you — Jessica-Lynn Barbour

I have a record as governor. I have a record of cutting spending. And I talked yesterday not only about we ought to cut spending, I talked about how we've cut spending in Mississippi and how if you did the same things in the federal government, you would save tens of billions of dollars a year. — Haley Barbour

There have been more than 30,000 oil wells drilled in the Gulf of Mexico in the last 50 years. This is the first time something like this has ever happened [BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill], and we need to get to the bottom of it, find out what happened, make sure it doesn't happen again. But I think it is very reasonable to continue to drill. — Haley Barbour

Stories to read are delitabill (delightful)
Suppose that they be nocht but fable (fiction)
Then should stories that suthfast were (truthful)
- And they were said in good manner -
Have double pleasure in hearing.
The first pleasance is the carping (reading aloud)
And the tothir the suthfastness
That shows the thing richt as it was; — John Barbour

Superficial people find the extraordinary fascinating, and profound people find the ordinary riveting. — Julian Barbour

The mature brain is a time capsule. History resides in its structure. — Julian B. Barbour

I would just have a different policy than what he has espoused ... We need to recognize we are not going to deport 12 million people, and ... we shouldn't. — Haley Barbour

My daddy died when I was two years old. My mother raised my two older brothers and me. And we couldn't have had a better situation. I mean, she was the - ran the concession stand at the Little League, and she was the first woman president of The Touchdown Club, the booster club for the high school football team. And so, I had a wonderful childhood. — Haley Barbour

I think the American people are very smart in understanding our country is very trustworthy with nuclear weapons. We've had them from the beginning. But they have also been critical for keeping the world more at peace than it would have been if it hadn't been for the American nuclear umbrella. — Haley Barbour

Big business has no party and never shall have. — Haley Barbour

There's no recovery on Main Street, I can tell you that for sure. And in a re - in an economy like this, we don't need to be raising anybody's taxes. — Haley Barbour

I remember all the things we said we'd do
And how not a single thing we said was true — Jessica-Lynn Barbour

Starving artist: starving for affection, starving for attention — Jessica-Lynn Barbour