D. J. Taylor Quotes

As a rule, prayer is answered and funds come in, but if we are kept waiting, the spiritual blessing that is the outcome is far more precious than exemption from the trial.

I don't think you should ever take life so serious that you forget to play.

You are who you are. All you can do in this world is help others to be who they are and better themselves.

The knowledge of my sin Is half-repentance.

When I'm not with the one I love, I love the one I'm with.

There has never been a successful social movement for any minority without the support of the majority.

I think my favorite thing about seasons changing is the opportunity to look different.

The past is the past. Don't let it kill you.

The angels are Divine messengers of light who offer us guidance... Our willingness to receive Divine guidance is what positions us at the right time and place for a message.

Anyone who is more interested in human beings than in the rules is a threat to the system.

I cap myself when I shop; I don't like to spend extravagant amounts on clothes. But, I do get lent clothes for events, it's scary to wear something so expensive, but I feel really pampered.

Misogyny is ingrained in people from the time they are born. So to me, feminism is probably the most important movement that you could embrace, because it's just basically another word for equality.

I don't read music. I don't write it. So I wander around on the guitar until something starts to present itself.

It's a true feeling that comes from the heart, not something that just comes out of my mouth. Blues is what I love, and blues is what I always do.

Veracity does not consist in saying, but in the intention of communicating the truth.

Why are you so docile when you give up your child to a government agent called a schoolteacher?

If dance wasn't in my life, it wouldn't be worth living.

I don't know if you know who you are, until you lose who you are.

Honestly I try to stay away from what has been written about me because if you let that stuff get to you and it's not true, it can drive you crazy.

Is he ever going to learn?

I don't like my voice. I don't like the way I look. I don't like the way I move. I don't like the way I act. I mean, period. So, you know, I don't like myself.

Being FEARLESS isn't being 100% Not FEARFUL, it's being terrified but you jump anyway.

I think that it’s fearless to fall for your best friend, even though he’s in love with someone else.

Teachers shouldn't make the mistake of always thinking they're the smartest person in the room

There's a natural tendency to sanitize and polish any historical icon whether it be George Washington chopping down the cherry tree or Martin Luther King saying, "I have a dream."

If you cry over a guy, then your friends can't date him. It can't even be considered.

The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable.

Bitter, bitter, this desolation of angels.

There are an awful lot of people who despise government precisely because it opened the door for common citizenship for people of all races and all natures in the United States.

I hate myself on the screen. I want to die ... my voice is either too high or too gravelly. I want to dive under the carpet.... I'd love to be tall and willowy ... I'm short.

The loving are the daring.

No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.

For me, when I picture the person I want to end up with, I don't think about what their career is, or what they look like. I picture the feeling I get when I'm with them.

Summer has set in with its usual severity.

Priceless things matter not for their value, but because they offer us an enduring reminder of stability and permanence.

Doors of opportunity don't open, they unlock; it is up to you to turn the knob.

If this is a real work for God it is a real conflict with Satan.

Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants.

Self-hate is a form of mental slavery that results in poverty, ignorance, and crime.

The Eighth Commandment was not made for bards.

The primary imagination I hold to be the living power and prime agent of all human perception, and as a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I Am.

Once a relationship is done, it's done. You can't do that back and forth thing.

While unbelief sees the difficulties, faith sees God between itself and them.

If you think my music is sentimental and self-absorbed, I agree with you.

There's a weird fact that if you dropped a penny off the Empire State Building in New York City, you'd kill someone. I feel really bad, 'cause I dropped a nickel off it once.

I had to learn chord shapes... I bought books with chord charts. I used to listen to all kinds of pop music.

I've figured out what to do with my hands... onstage. I'm a percussion player, so I grab a tambourine as much as I can.

Our own heart, and not other men's opinion, forms our true honor.

“I'll never bowl with him again. After he got a strike, he spiked the ball.”

If you ever think you're the only person in the world feeling a certain way, just please know that you're not.