Rj Barber Quotes

We do not realise that we are children of eternity. If we did, then success would be no success, and failure would be no failure to us.

I don't think it's the function of Congress to function well. It should drag its heels on the way to decision.

Injuries too well remembered cannot heal.

I was 14 when I lost them [his front teeth]. The main thing was, we won that game, so I was the happiest. You hate to lose your teeth and the game, too.

The future is hidden by a dark impenetrable veil, and yet we struggle to pierce through it.

The Church in England is the Church of England.

I don't want to give a cool appraisal of Jeremy Irons. I just want to boil him in oil.

The luxurious ache of tired but not weary limbs.

Nature is full for us of seeming inconsistencies and glad surprises.

Writing is easy. Just sit down and open a vein.

Trying to make the presidency work these days is like trying to sew buttons on a custard pie.

In America, life is introverted, self-absorbed - and so is their music.

This fear of the Lord is indeed the beginning of wisdom. This consciousness of sin is the straight pathway to heaven.

Congress is functioning the way the Founding Fathers intended-not very well. They understood that if you move too quickly, our democracy will be less responsible to the majority.

Exhaustion and exasperation are frequently the handmaidens of legislative decision.

I never killed anyone with my tuba.

I said, 'Don, what's sustainable about feeding chicken to fish?'

It's a fallen world. We eat and sacrifice in the process.

The history of food has never had a better biographer. Required reading for anyone who eats.

Yes, God is the end of your work, but He is the beginning also.

Absolve me, teach me, purify me, strengthen me: take me to Thyself, that I may be Thine and Thine only.

Try to help others. Consult their weaknesses, relieve their maladies; strive to raise them up, and by so doing you will most effectually raise yourself up also.

The tillage of the soil occupies the vast majority of those who work for their own bread.

It is strange to reflect how much energy is thrown away in attempting to know the unknowable.

God gave you not a spirit of faithlessness, not a spirit of despair.

The best interviews like the best biographies should sing the strangeness and variety of the human race.

Bad Sausage and five bogeys will give you a stomach ache every time.

When I'm talking to a large audience, I imagine that I'm talking to a single person.

People see what they want to see.

When I was in baseball and you went into the clubhouse, you didn't see ball players with curling irons.

Every day is an opportunity disguised as a challenge.

I grew up playing sports. There is a clear line between success and failure.

You get held to a high standard, almost an unmaintainable standard, in the public eye that you don't even come close to touching.

I divide the world into learners and non-learners.

You don't ever lose your dream. You don't give that up. I tell that to the players. If you don't have dreams, you don't have anything to live for.

Words contract a significance which clings to them long after the condition of things to which they owe it has passed away.

Revelation is always measured by capacity.

All music now, I think, is fair game for jazz musicians to interpret, and they have been. I would consider those songs standards now. "Norwegian Wood" is a standard; "Call Me" is a standard.

On radio, you're an artist. On TV, you're a servant.

The simplest kind of decision is binary: that is, the question can be answered, in principle at least, by either yes or no.

Necessity can set me helpless on my back, but she cannot keep me there; nor can four walls limit my vision.

A richer present I design, A finished form, of work divine, Surpassing all the power of art; A thinking head, a grateful heart.

I have a need to do something and know I can be successful.

The success and the failure are not my concern, but His.

I have freedom. But freedom means total selfishness. It means nobody cares much what you do.

Good environmentalism is good economics

We play happy music and we make people happy, that's why they like us

Jazz of the sort we play is a happy, extroverted music. You don't have to think about it too much.

I have only been working in the office for a few months, but I already have a development plan and had the opportunity to job shadow someone in a role that is of interest to me.

I'm not an environmentalist, or a doctor, or a nutritionist.