Nigel Barley Quotes & Sayings

Give yourself permission 2 evolve. Become a philosopher; come up with your own interpretation of life and stop accepting someone else's as your truth. — Germany Kent

I never found anyone who could look after me as well as I could look after myself. — Elaine Stritch

When you choose to light, I weep, when you choose to darken, I weep — Triss

I have a theory that the answers to all of life's major questions can found in a John Mayer song. — Susane Colasanti

If you have to go crazy, please go crazy all by yourself! Ursula shouted. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Persistence prevails, like a stream that is temporarily blocked by boulders and then collects force enough to overflow onward. — Vernon Howard

The emotional pattern seems to be something like, "[Karl] Polanyi, a person of the left like me, says many true things, beautifully. Therefore his tales about what happened in economic history must be true." Marx before him got similar treatment. Lately the more eloquent of the environmentalists, such as Wendell Berry, get it too. People want to believe that beauty is truth. A supporting emotional frame on the left arises from the very idea of historical progress: "We must be able to do so much better than this wretched capitalism." It is not true, but it motivates. — Deirdre N. McCloskey

One is and is not in the centre of the maelstrom of it all. — Harold Pinter

Let us go to our sleep with joy and gladness; let us say: I have lived; the course which Fortune set for me Is finished.[9] And if God is pleased to add another day, we should welcome it with glad hearts. That man is happiest, and is secure in his own possession of himself, who can await the morrow without apprehension. When a man has said: "I have lived!", every morning he arises he receives a bonus. — Seneca.

I think what Osama bin Laden does is to take the fact that some peoples lack hope and lack opportunity, and twist it to his own ends. — Richard Armitage

Gloriousness and wretchedness need each other. One inspires us, the other softens us. — Pema Chodron