Joan Baez Daybreak Quotes & Sayings

I don't buy the argument that there can't be a successful independent candidacy for the presidency of the United States. People who say, 'It can't happen,' are many of the same people who said we'd never elect an African American. — Mark McKinnon

I guess the reality is, everybody today has so many gadgets. — Barbara Broccoli

You can always substantially change how intelligent you are. — Carol S. Dweck

It's official: we're fucked. — Manel Loureiro

What you do doesn't define you. You can't let your failures, or your success for that matter, dictate how you view yourself. You are loved. — Taylor York

Everything changed, and eleven months later, here I was in the middle of the night with a gungho major, playing secret agent, hoping some Frenchie didn't put a bullet in my skull before I gave the Germans and Italians their chance. — James R. Benn

He prayed fundamentally as a gesture of love for what had gone and would go and could be loved in no other way. When he prayed he touched his parents, who could not otherwise be touched, and he touched a feeling that we are all children who lose our parents, all of us, every man and woman and boy and girl, and we too will all be lost by those who come after us and love us, and this loss unites humanity, unites every human being, the temporary nature of our being-ness, and our shared sorrow, the heartache we each carry and yet too often refuse to acknowledge in one another, and out of this Saeed felt it might be possible, in the face of death, to believe in humanity's potential for building a better world. — Mohsin Hamid

He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast. — Leonardo Da Vinci

He is lost who is possessed by carnal desire. — Mahatma Gandhi

The folly of endless consumerism sends us on a wild goose-chase for happiness through materialism. — Bryant H. McGill

With confidence, he open the door of life presented to him. — Paulo Coelho

Your thoughts, the way you think is the most powerful influence in your life. — John Patrick Hickey

Perhaps profit isn't everything, but nothing works without profit. Profit is the basis for independent journalism. — Mathias Dopfner

God put me on earth for a few specific reasons. Being your mom was the most important and I I thank Him everyday for the opportunity and gift. — Paula Heller Garland