D. J. Taylor Quotes

The greatest problem about old age is the fear that it may go on too long.

Fascism was little more than terrorist rule by corrupt gangsters. Mussolini was not corrupt himself but he did nothing except to rage impotently.

Death but supplies the oil for the inextinguishable lamp of life.

The things that are important to me - being a mother, a businesswoman, an activist - are all things that were borne out of great passion.

I think good music makes you feel free, and if people feel free when they come to a show or listen to my music, that would mean the world to me.

The blame is on me...I knew you were trouble when you walked in.

The stalwart soul has the will to live and is eager for the race.

It is the most delightful thing that ever happens to me, when I hear something coming out of my guitar and out of my mouth that wasn't there before.

If they can't do it in California, it can't be done anywhere.

She knocked and waited, because when the door was opened from within, it had the potential to lead someplace quite different.

I'm going to Ibiza with the lads! I’ll probably come back a raging alcoholic.

Michael Jackson is one of the most normal people I know.

The arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and assistance to foreign hands should be curtailed, lest Rome fall.

Fearless is falling madly in love again, even though you've been hurt before.

There's a famous saying: "If you pass the square ball in your own defensive third it must not be intercepted."

You know, I'm not ready to go anywhere. I still have more to do in Paramore.

Feel good about being someone who loves selflessly. I think someday you’ll find someone who loves you the exact same way.

Agents do nothing for the good of football. I'd like to see them lined up against a wall and machine-gunned ?some accountants and solicitors with them.

Freedom was given to humanity by God. But, governments, if they can help it, never give freedom. They just hand out slavery with slogans.

The ambition of an England manager should be to become England manager.

Footballers are no different from human beings.

True repentance hates the sin, and not merely the penalty; and it hates the sin most of all because it has discovered and felt God's love.

Turn away from your animal kind, try to leave your body, just to live in your mind.

In international football you have 10 games a season, with players from different clubs. There's no time for proper coaching; they're just recovering from playing on the Saturday.

Any joy, creativity or wisdom our next moment brings will ensue from the way we live our present one.

Other women who are killing it should motivate you, thrill you, challenge you and inspire you.

It's the only way we can lose, irrespective of the result.

I suffer from girlnextdooritis where the guy is friends with you and that's it.

Went to get coffee today-opened my change purse. Sea shells fell out. Barista goes "Sorry, we only take cash or credit." So there's that.

I urge you to examine in your own mind the assumptions which must lay behind using the police power to insist that once-sovereign spirits have no choice but to submit to being schooled by strangers.

Everything makes me nervous - except making films.

Believing prayer will lead to whole-hearted action.

I began to see during the civil war, in that part of the states of Missouri and Kansas where the doctors were shut out, the children did not die.

If I had 1,000 lives, I'd give them all for China.

So often, we're expected to maintain some sort of standard - that won't get you where you need to go.

Our cultural dilemma has nothing to do with children who don't read very well. It lies instead in the difficulty of finding a way to restore meaning and purpose to modern life.

I am one of billions. I am stardust gathered fleetingly into form. I will be ungathered. The stardust will go on to be other things someday and I will be free.

Everything hinges on education. Without it, you can't advocate for proper health care, for housing, for a civil rights bill that ensures your rights.

As an actor, what I'm finding is that I really like the extremes. I think that's really fun to play with.

One difficulty follows another very fast - but God reigns, not chance.

I'm not someone who likes to go out very much.

Oh sleep! it is a gentle thing, Beloved from pole to pole.

I want to build spires in their minds and dance shadows through like marionettes, chased by whispers and hints of the unspeakable.

I still like to live in a whimsical world that seems more romantic and fantasy-related because real life seems so hard

You can be fat and still be sexy . It all depends on how you feel about yourself

Fragrance is an incredibly intimate thing. It can evoke very specific thoughts or memories and is a little different for each person who wears it. I also think it's the most accessible luxury.

Exercising can exorcise emotional pain.

As you experience love and relationships, you start to realize that love tends to end in a very painful goodbye.

Martin Luther King was a leader for all Americans on our own professed values.

I don't take compliments very easily. I think most musicians suffer from low self-esteem to some extent.