SebastiAn Quotes

I am driven by a greater force than I can resist. I believe that force has its own reason and its own morality even if they may never be clear to me while I am alive

I suppose that each of us may have a great moment in our life, a month, a week a year, when we are most fully what we are meant to be

My direction? Anywhere. Because one is always nearer by not keeping still.

One of the hardest things about being alive is being with other people.

He wrote one more paragraph for his own sake, to see what he had to say.

I don't think you ever understand your life - not till it's finished and probably not then either. The more I live the less I seem to understand.

But I think if any song can touch the heart, then one should value it.

It's better to have a malign providence than an indifferent one.

If not just the brain but the quirks that made the individual were composed of recycled matter only, it was hard to be sure where the edges of one such being ended and another person began.

Something had been buried that was not yet dead.

Lonely's like any other organism; competitive and resourceful in the struggle to perpetuate itself.

If you have only one life, you cant altogether ignore the question: are you enjoying it?

The nicest characters in A Week in December research are, in fact, Muslims - and their religious devotion is one of the things that defines them.

Shakespeare drew a map of the human mind as clearly as Newton mapped the heavens. Wht is one considered science and the other fir only to be mocked with jokes about pretty girls and drury lane?

This is how most people live: alive, but not conscious; conscious but not aware; aware, but intermittently.

I don't like being rumbled, I like to be invisible.

Knowing one was comprised of recycled matter only and that selfhood was a delusion did not take away the aching of the heart.

The thunder of false modesty was deafening.

The world wishes to be deceived.

How does the phrase radical Islamic terrorism link all the believers of a faith to terrorism? If I said radical Christian terrorism, does that mean I as a Catholic are a terrorist?

[…] life is just the misery left between abortion and euthanasia […]

I like fat girls. A woman can never be too poor or too fat. I'd take a poor fat girl over a rich thin girl like Kate Moss.

I don't think I'm known for my gifts - I'm known for my gall. I don't want to be just a famous person - I'm too old.

It's really interesting because 50 years ago, if you didn't wear a hat everyone looked at you. It just proves that everything is fashion.

If I hear that people are litigious, I immediately dismiss them.

My one concession to American sensibilities was to remove my nail polish.

The function of music is to release us from the boredom of existence.

I have a strong hips and groin. It's the leg speed, the way I approach the ball. My first step is not very hard, but my second is explosive.

Kicking the football and the soccer ball is all the same, just a different shape, like an egg. It doesn't make any difference.

I can't drink. I have too much to lose. I can't lose my job over something I can stop.

People can look at me any way they want to. If somebody meets me and hangs out with me, they can see what kind person I am. I can't change for people.

The key is being with the right people and making the right decisions.

I feel sorry for the little kickers that weigh 165-170.

I'm just enjoying life more and thinking about the future.

Who wants a life of ease? And who wants a life in the office that you hate, and who wants to play golf?

If you shell a military base and happen to kill civilians, you have not committed a war crime; if you deliberately target cities and towns, you have.

The attacks of 9/11 came out of Afghanistan. It was a failed state, a rogue nation. That's why al Qaeda was there in the first place.

I had grown up during Vietnam. I had no connections to the U.S. military, and I had a pretty cynical default opinion about the U.S. military.

I hope I get married one day.

I'm a good liberal, and I grew up in a very liberal family and had very strongly held beliefs.

The elections would be free and democratic, and any result would have to be accepted.

I am also integration minister and speak with many refugees. When I ask if they came with the goal of living in Greece or Poland, most of them answer "no."

On one hand, it is very important that democracy and human rights be defended across borders. But it is also very important to respect the right of each country to choose its own path.

You will never solve the American problems just by printing money.

I would say that the U.S. has overlooked Latin America. Their priorities have always been somewhere else. And that is a problem and that is a mistake.

I grew up middle class. My father was a public functionary who didn't leave an inheritance, just debts.

I am lucky enough to be married to someone who I believe in totally and who believes in me totally.

I'm like this mercenary actor going from show to show - people love to hire me, but then don't want me around much.

"Failure" isn't a word I really use.

The greatest source of inspiration for me has been my wife; she is the love of my life, my best friend, and my most ardent supporter.