Byrum Parr Quotes & Sayings

What happens if you do nothing, nothing, there's a price and a terrible freedom to that — Brent Weeks

This denying and deceiving kind of numbness is broken only by the embrace of negativity,16 by the public articulation that we are fearful and ashamed of the future we have chosen. The pain and regret denied only immobilizes. In the time of Jeremiah the pain and regret denied prevented any new movement either from God or toward God in Judah. The covenant was frozen and there was no possibility of newness until the numbness was broken. Jeremiah understood that the criticism must be faced and embraced, for then comes liberation from incurable disease, from broken covenant, and from failed energy. — Walter Brueggemann

With what infinite & unwearied expectation and proclamations the cocks usher in every dawn, as if there had never been one before. — Henry David Thoreau

Religion claims to be in possession of an absolute truth; but its history is a history of errors and heresies. It gives us the promise and prospect of a transcendent world - far beyond the limits of our human experience - and it remains human, all too human. — Ernst Cassirer

There are limits to power, as those who put their hopes in a constitution always discover. — Frank Herbert

Pathology can indeed cause experiences of the Kingdom of God, but not all God experiences are caused by pathology. — Abhijit Naskar

The risks are far greater to your child of not getting immunized than any kind of speculative potential relationship between the vaccine and the development of autism. — Irwin Redlener

Can you experience nostalgia for something that hasn't happened? We talk of 'regrets' about the course of our lives, when we are almost certain we have taken the wrong decision; but one can also be enveloped in a sweet and mysterious euphoria, a sort of nostalgia for what might have been. Meeting — Antoine Laurain

I think filmmakers are always interested in getting the best actor that they can find, the person who's the most right for it. — Melanie Lynskey

I was a breakdancer as a kid. I was on one of the top break dancing teams in Australia. — Manu Bennett

We all walk in the dark and each of us must learn to turn on his or her own light. — Earl Nightingale

In Georgia, rednecks are just wolves in wolf clothing. In Detroit, you don't know who's a redneck until you go home and meet their parents. — Joseph Bruce

Understanding human nature. Perception. That's how I see acting - perception and communication. — Juliette Lewis

All in all. You have been. Redeemer. Pain Steeler. My best friend. Please hold my hand. — Courtney C. Stevens

The highway from the airport into town was one of the ugliest stretches of road I'd ever seen in my life. The whole landscape was a desert of hostile black rocks, mile after mile of raw moonscape and ominous low-flying clouds. Captain Steve said we were crossing an old lava flow. Far down to the right a thin line of coconut palms marked the new Western edge of America, a lonely-looking wall of jagged black lava cliffs looking out on the white-capped Pacific. We were 2,500 miles west of The Seal Rock Inn, halfway to China, and the first thing I saw on the outskirts was a Texaco station, then a McDonald's hamburger stand. — Hunter S. Thompson