Youell Swinney Quotes & Sayings

There must be grounds for doubt as well as belief in order to render the choice more truly a choice, and therefore more deliberate and laden with more personal vulnerability and investment. An overwhelming preponderance of evidence on either side would make our choice as meaningless as would a loaded gun pointed at our heads. The option to believe must appear on one's personal horizon like the fruit of paradise, perched precariously between sets of demands held in dynamic tension. Fortunately, in this world, one is always provided with sufficient materials out of which to fashion a life of credible conviction or dismissive denial. We are acted upon, in other words, by appeals to our personal values, our yearnings, our fears, our appetites, and our egos. What we choose to embrace, to be responsive to, is the purest reflection of who we are and what we love. That is why faith, the choice to believe, is, in the final analysis, an action that is positively laden with moral significance. — Terryl L. Givens

To have a horror of the bourgeois is bourgeois. — Jules Renard

New York feels like a sublet of Europe. And Europe is a sublet of New York. Put it that way. It's so accessible. When I was in LA, I felt so far away from my home. Home, for the moment, is here until it's not. I like to move around with my work. I feel it's a great way to learn about life, about new cultures, and to learn. We'll see where the wind takes me. — Sean Mahon

I always spend time exploring the customs and attitudes of the countries I'm using for locations, and interviewing the people who live there. I've visited over 90 countries thus far. — Sidney Sheldon

I prefer to give money to the person who's provided the good service. But I never tip at hotels, I think they overcharge anyway. But anything which is value for money will get my vote. — Geoff Capes

Religious disintegration began with colonization. — Eduardo Galeano

A man speaking sense to himself is no madder than a man speaking nonsense not to himself. — Tom Stoppard

He believed a kind of fragmentation had crept into people's minds in the modern era. — Jeff VanderMeer

No one but you can take your dreams away from you — Jillian Michaels

You just go right up to anything and talk to it, don't you?" Sam closed his eyes and smiled. "I love that about you. — Jodi Meadows

I got mouths to feed til they put flowers on me. — Jay-Z

You can't hide behind race any more. You can't hide behind class structure any more. You can't hide behind family. You need to produce. — Mitch Landrieu