Luebben Quotes & Sayings

Telling the truth and being ethical often keeps people from political power, but doing the right thing, always, without exception, is all that matters in the long run, and is ultimately powerful. That's why the true heroes of the civil rights struggle were never politicians. They were humble folk on a mission, enduring sit-ins and organizing marches and debates. When they began to succeed, the politicians, seeing an opportunity, followed them. — Paul Theroux

You don't know how lucky you are, my dear. Don't waste it with regrets of the places and people you have lost. You have a lifetime to fill, so many good times and good years and great people ahead of you. You must rush to meet it. — Danielle Steel

You can't take a character anywhere they don't expect the character to go. But within those confines is where creativity lies. — Richard Price

what becomes of the shepherd / when the sheep are cannibals? — Ocean Vuong

The cinema has no boundary; it is a ribbon of dream. — Orson Welles

Of course, there will be few people who are sympathetic but you don't become a great team overnight, no matter how much money you have at your disposal. — Frank Lampard

They are approaching now a lengthy brick improvisation, a Victorian paraphrase of what once, long ago, resulted in Gothic cathedrals - but which, in its own time, arose not from any need to climb through the fashioning of suitable confusions toward any apical God, but more in a derangement of aim, a doubt as to the God's actual locus (or, in some, as to its very existence), out of a cruel network of sensuous moments that could not be transcended and so bent the intentions of the builders not on any zenith, but back to fright, to simple escape, in whatever direction, from what the industrial smoke, street excrement, windowless warrens, shrugging leather forests of drive belts, flowing and patient shadow states of the rats and flies, were saying about the chances for mercy that year. — Thomas Pynchon

I can write no other than this: unless we use the weapons of the spirit, denying ourselves and taking up our cross and following Jesus, dying with Him and rising with Him, men will go on fighting, and often from the highest motives, believing that they are fighting defensive wars for justice and in self-defense against present or future aggression. — Dorothy Day

I do feel like a loner but I think it's because I look at things differently than other people. — Ricky Williams

I make films for the 16-year-old in myself sometimes. — Scott Adkins

Law is a thing which is insensible, and inexorable, more beneficial and more profitious to the weak than to the strong; it admits of no mitigation nor pardon, once you have overstepped its limits. — Livy

So-called intellectuals have ego-power; Fools have willpower. — Saurabh Sharma

I know I say people suck, but I didn't mean it literally. — J.D. Robb

I often have a theme in mind when I'm starting. I know that I want everything to be in a world of, say, evolution, or guilt. — Charlie Kaufman