Michael Des Barres Quotes & Sayings

Just observe the nation that is defended by devoted patriots. The patriots fall in bloody battle or in the fight with hunger and want; what does the nation care for that? By the manure of their corpses the nation comes to "its bloom"! The individuals have died "for the great cause of the nation," and the nation sends some words of thanks after them and - has the profit of it. I call that a paying kind of egoism. — Max Stirner

The people we were there to help, often times, didn't really give a fuck about our help. They would LIE, cheat and steal, and say anything to get whatever they could from us, and then go back to sympathizing with the Taliban. Their sense of loyalty to their country is non-existent, their ability to lie and bullshit is better than any scummy lawyer I've ever seen in a movie, and their willingness to flop sides is inspiring to Lebron James. — Donny O'Malley

I look at the universe and I know there's an architect. — Jack Anderson

I've rarely seen video screens used well in a music concert. — David Byrne

No fame is actually worth much now-a-days, - because it is not classic fame, strong in reposeful old-world dignity, - it is blatant noisy notoriety merely. — Marie Corelli

When we realized we are wrong, we must confess sins. THEN return to seek the right ways of God. — Lailah Gifty Akita

It takes a long time for a father to drive the love out of a child. — Jim Harrison

So here, patient listener: your soothing epilogue. Imagine him happy. Imagine him spinning in circles ... Imagine his heaven, where he can float through characters and books at will. (Let's dream him up a king, a giant, a boy who can fly.) Imagine him already there, under his covers with the flashlight. — Rebecca Makkai

Failure make people bitter and cruel. Success improves the character of the man. — W. Somerset Maugham

They had an instictive ability to love, so that when they encountered each other, they fitted together in a way that made the two of them more than each could ever be on their own — Garth Nix