Birzer Quotes & Sayings

The only time people do not like praise is when too much of it is going toward someone else. — Martin Luther King Jr.

From the '70s and '80s, the following songs immediately spring to my mind as candidates: "The Battle of Evermore," "Spirit of Eden," "In Memory of Elizabeth Reed," "Close to the Edge," "In Your Eyes," "Thick as a Brick," "Cinema Show," "Echoes," and "The Killing Moon. — Bradley J. Birzer

The ignorant man never enjoys. — Swami Vivekananda

I want to make a difference with people who want to make a difference, doing something that makes a difference. — John C. Maxwell

The most endangered species The honest man Will still survive annihilation Forming a world State of integrity Sensitive, open and strong — Bradley J. Birzer

The quickest way to the top, is getting off your bottom — Benny Bellamacina

Do you know what a tre vie is, Juliana? — Lynn Viehl

Television has - particularly at the HBO level in the United States - become a completely new genre. Something like Deadwood or The Wire is a whole new thing - there was no equivalent to that medium before. It's like a new way of telling stories. — William Gibson

The future is itself a story, and predictions are stories we tell to amaze ourselves, to give hope to the desperate, to jolt the complacent. — David Remnick

How many frogs would fit in lizard's stomach? — Lauren Myracle

Growing up it all seems so one-sided Opinions all provided The future pre-decided Detached and subdivided In the mass production zone Nowhere is the dreamer Or the misfit so alone — Bradley J. Birzer

My first struggle thought me that there is no such thing as luck, but the second made me believe you certainly need it sometimes. — M.F. Moonzajer

Nothing is quite so uncomfortable as a loose conscience. — Rex Stout

The world economy is more stable than for a generation ... Our hugely sophisticated financial markets match funds with ideas better than ever before. — David Cameron

Christopher Dawson was one of the most counter-cultural of all intellectuals. As the world rejected God, Dawson embraced God. As the world rejected myth, Dawson embraced myth. As the world rejected the significance of prophets, Dawson attempted to speak as one. As the world mocked the saints as superstition, Dawson regarded them as the only lights - reflecting the true light of the Logos - in history. — Bradley J. Birzer

No his mind is not for rent To any god or government Always hopeful, yet discontent He knows changes aren't permanent But change is — Bradley J. Birzer

To the modernist, "myth," like religion, merely signifies a comfortable and entrenched lie. For the postmodernist, myth simply represents one story, one narrative among many; it is purely subjective, certainly signifying nothing of transcendent or any other kind of importance. — Bradley J. Birzer

Deeply rooted in the universalist Western tradition of the Stoics and the the early medieval Christians, Tolkien created a myth to explore the nature of the human person against the avaricious dreams of the capitalists and the diabolical schemes of the national and international socialists, all of whom would replace God with man. — Bradley J. Birzer

You don't get something for nothing You can't have freedom for free You won't get wise with the sleep still in your eyes No matter what your dreams might be — Bradley J. Birzer

When we see men of worth, we should think of equalling them; when we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inward and examine ourselves. — Gustave Courbet

Closing his eyes, he held her tightly and sifted place in a general southerly direction, pushing to the farthest limits his diminished power could carry him. The moment he rematerialized, he instantly sifted again, arms locked around her.
Railroad track. Sift. Grocery store. Keep moving. Roof of a house. Sift. Cornfield. Sift. Cornfield. Sift. Cornfield. Sift. Cornfield. Bloody Midwest. Sift. — Karen Marie Moning

Find me playing till sunrise for 50 cents and a sandwich. — Muddy Waters

Is it always in the interest of the public safety to seek the prosecutor's traditional solution
the harshest penalty possible? Or is the public best served by finding ways to change a kid's lot in life for the better, even if that means opening the prison door? — Edward Humes