Al Barr Quotes

I'm not upset about my divorce. I'm only upset that I'm not a widow.

Your body is your instrument, you play it expertly.

Everything that's written about me has such a negative taint. It just has a life of its own, like an avalanche, and I don't think there's anything I can do to stop it.

As Prime Minister of Israel, I will introduce a bill into the Knesset that will simply pay the Arabs not to shoot at the Jews.

I think I'm hysterical. I watch myself on tape and just roar - isn't that weird?

You must never be afraid in New York City, because then you will call bad stuff to you and you will not like it there.

Have you heard about the women who stabbed her husband 37 times? I admire her restraint.

As long as your abuser has you scared, you will stay in the cycle of abuse. Thinking of solutions helps you to escape.

I loved comedy all my life. I think it's a real powerful art form.

The most out-there thing I’m saying is, ‘Don’t have babies. Don’t get married and have kids. Have a larger life than that.

A good message will always find a messenger.

I survived my childhood by birthing many separate identities to stand in for one another in times of great stress and fear.

For decades, parents were told by so-called parenting 'experts' that offspring would be best raised on the belief each is special and entitled to all life has to offer.

I'm a farmer now, and it's fantastic. My goal is to be totally self-sufficient and grow everything that I eat. There's something about earning your dinner that's cool.

I was raised on government cheese. As an adult, in my first marriage, my husband and I worked real hard just to go bankrupt. I happened to write some jokes about it. I did real well for myself.

It's time for Americans to stop worrying about Kim Kardashian and figure out how we're gonna save our kids.

Big pharma has a strangle hold on the politicians. They're stepping over the corpses of the children of America to cash their checks.

what is unreasonable is irrefutable.

the fruit of life is experience, not happiness.

move not in your anger; it is like putting to sea in a tempest.

To forgive freely, is what we owe to our enemy; to forget not, is what we owe to ourselves.

In any adversity gold can find friends.

Death is like the setting of the sun. The sun never sets; life never ceases. ... we think the sun sets, and it never ceases shining; we think our friends die, and they never cease living.

if a thing is to be done, there is no time like the hour that has not struck.

In all troublous events we may find comfort, though it be only in the negative admission that things might have been worse.

All revolutions are treason until they are accomplished.

I wear the key of memory, and can open every door in the house of my life.

The first step is what I like to be sure of ... to the second step it often binds you.

Oh, the soul keeps its youth!

... the evil that comes out of your lips, into your own bosom will fall.

... money trials are not the hardest, and somehow or other, they are always overcome.

when we leave society and come into the presence of Nature, we become children again; and the fictions of thought and action assumed among men drop off like a garment.

There is much said about the wickedness of doing evil that good may come. Alas! there is such a thing as doing good that evil may come.

It is little men know of women; their smiles and their tears alike are seldom what they seem.

... if fiction does not show us a better life than reality, what is the good of it?

... trouble of all kinds is voluble, and has plenty of words, but happiness was never written down.

Men can bear all things but good days.

... good and evil are so interwoven in life that every good, traced up far enough, is found to involve evil. This is the great mystery of life.

... how poorly do we love even those whom we love most! We are not only bruised by the limitations of their love for us, but also by the limitations of our own love for them.

A man nearly sixty is just as ready to suppose himself fascinating as a man of twenty.

A poverty that is universal may be cheerfully borne; it is an individual poverty that is painful and humiliating.

the matrimonial shoe pinches me.

... though mathematics may teach a man how to build a bridge, it is what the Scotch Universities call the humanities, that teach him to be civil and sweet-tempered.

History has shown that Big Government expands quickest in the immediate aftermath of a crisis - real or manufactured.

Whether it's a sitting president when I was an impeachment manager, or a Republican president who has taken liberties with adherence to the law, to me the standard is the same.

The Libertarian Party is a very mainstream party. It's a mainstream philosophy. It's of returning power from Washington to parents, to schools, to businesses in their communities.

The backlash against Big Government is an encouraging sign of a growing resistance to the mission creep of federal power.

The Tea Party knows that continuing to delay charting a course to spending reform hurts everybody.

For far too long the American public and business sector have kept their silence as civil liberties have been whittled away by statutory and regulatory measures.

The world is undoubtedly a safer, freer place because Thatcher - like Reagan - refused to back down when it came to defending freedom.