Byran Quotes & Sayings

I followed the words of the famous Russian proverb: Doveryai, no proveryai (or, in English, 'Trust, but verify'). — Randi Minetor

It is no longer possible to escape men. Farewell to the monsters, farewell to the saints. Farewell to pride. All that is left is men. — Jean-Paul Sartre

Look at this existence. This pathetic, fallible, wonderful body," you can say rhetorically, sarcastically, or earnestly and still achieve death. Look at me falling in love with fallible bodies. Look at me performing emotional labor — Gabby Bess

Religious freedom should work two ways: we should be free to practice the religion of our choice, but we must also be free from having someone else's religion practiced on us. — John Irving

Jealousy is a terrible thing. "It doth mock the meat it feeds upon" is an understatement. Jealousy is completely consuming, totally irrational, and absolutely debilitating. The most wonderful people in the world are nothing but raging animals when trapped in the throes of jealousy. — Arthur C. Clarke

I design my shots. I walk the rehearsal as the camera and say 'this is where I want to be ... I want this look. — Debbie Allen

If you are a Christian, you are free to think that all these religions, even the queerest ones, contain at least some hint of the truth. — C.S. Lewis

History has taught us that often lies serve her better than the truth; for man is sluggish and has to be led through the desert for forty years before each step in his development. And he has to be driven through the desert with threats and promises, by imaginary terrors and imaginary consolations, so that he should not sit down prematurely to rest and divert himself by worshipping golden calves. — Arthur Koestler

For nowhere, either with more quiet or more freedom from trouble, does a man retire than into his own soul, particularly when he has within him such thoughts that by looking into them he is immediately in perfect tranquillity; and I affirm that tranquillity is nothing else than the good ordering of the mind. — Marcus Aurelius

He [William Jennings Bryan] recognized that what Darwin proposed on the biological level, when applied on the societal level, might legitimize an ideology that supports the survival of the fittest, with all of its dire complications. Byran was able to envision the kind of society that Social Darwinism would create- the kind of exploitation that comes from unbridled capitalism, for instance- and chose to war against it. — Tony Campolo

I'm too old to be governed by fear of dumb people. — Sam Waterston

I will continue to speak in defense of freedom until the day I die. It's just that simple. It's not even a choice. It's a calling. — Pamela Geller

Your darkness is not the enemy. It is the rich soil you must dig into and sometimes be planted in before something new can break through the surface; and those parts of you that seem wounded or lacking don't need to be healed or improved, per say, but rather loved and accepted. — Derek Rydall