W. J. Bryan Quotes

You talk too much, you laugh too loud, and that's the price of love.

That's what's provocative to me - that we can victimize people, we can torture and traumatize people with no consciousness that it is a shameful thing to do.

There is little sense in attempting to change external conditions, you must first change inner beliefs, then outer conditions will change accordingly.

If we played like that every week, we wouldn't be so inconsistent.

Ever since I stopped worrying about finances, I've made more money than I ever thought I'd make in my life.

I don't wanna have anything left in the tank.

You can never get silence anywhere nowadays, have you noticed?

The imagination is part of the arsenal that actors draw from.

Thoughts crystallize into habit and habit solidifies into circumstances.

I have very strongly this feeling that our everyday life is at one and the same time banal, overfamiliar, platitudinous and yet mysterious and extraordinary.

I 'm on the sea! I 'm on the sea! I am where I would ever be, With the blue above and the blue below, And silence wheresoever I go.

There can be no settlement of a great cause without discussion, and people will not discuss a cause until their attention is drawn to it.

Behold a republic standing erect while empires all around are bowed beneath the weight of their own armaments - a republic whose flag is loved while other flags are only feared.

Most of the temptations that come to us to sell the soul come in connection with the getting of money.

None so little enjoy themselves, and are such burdens to themselves, as those who have nothing to do. Only the active have the true relish of life.

Facts mean nothing unless they are rightly understood, rightly related and rightly interpreted.

Grace overwhelms us with God's love, and as a result our heart resonates with the desires of God: His purposes become our own.

Pity speaks to grief more sweetly than a band of instruments.

Sociotropic voters with biased economic beliefs are more likely to produce severe political failures than are selfish voters with rational expectations.

The best social insurance is to make more progress, not to make more work

There are two sources of error: Either you lack sufficient data, or you fail to take advantage of the data that you have.

Actors are inherently self-centered.

This is a darker Lex too, because he's been in prison and he wants revenge. He's not playing around.

Stir not murky waters if you know not the depth or the creatures that dwell beneath the surface.

Compare sending someone a text message and getting a love letter delivered by carrier pigeon. No contest.

If we desire rules to govern our spiritual development we turn back to the Sermon on the Mount.

I will be putting out a fragrance - I'm following in the great steps of Puff Daddy.

But when I started writing songs, I stopped painting completely, and the only art things I do are connected to the career, like album sleeves and, to some extent, posters and things like that.

With few words, one can speak the truth.

Surfing - I have to go surfing.

I don't really relax. When I sleep, I relax.

This self-congratulatory notion Americans have that their country is Number One is borne of ignorance and bad manners.

I'm kind of at a point in my career where I can get away with traditional stuff and then get away with some more rocky and pop and edgier stuff, too.

I've been so blessed to have my career gradually get bigger and bigger, so I've been able to absorb stuff and take stuff gradually.

I draw on my memories but blended with a lot of fantasy.

It's in our nature to be intrigued. We're putting the bread crumb not in your mouth but close to your mouth. You reach a little bit, and that's why it works.

All the stuff about being a drinking club, or having players who were not good enough, I treat as rubbish.

Caught in the crossfire of a silent scream, where one man's nightmare is another man's dream.

People have to go through what they have to go through. I think in some cases you sort of bring things on yourself and that's what you want it to be than that's the way it is.

I'm amazed every time I come back to Vancouver at how much it's changed. You go away for a month and there's three more skyscrapers.

Luck is a component that a lot of people in the arts sometimes fail to recognise: that you can have talent, perseverance, patience, but without luck you will not have a successful career.

Death is the tyrant of the imagination.

Evolution seems to close the heart to some of the plainest spiritual truths while it opens the mind to the wildest guesses advanced in the name of science.

If we have to give up either religion or education, we should give up education.

Are you the sum total of your worst acts?

I'm an entertainer. If people are paying good money for tickets they deserve the best show they can see. I don't get into lighting stuff on fire, but I do believe in going the extra mile.

One time when somebody showed up in a wedding dress, but I never knew if it was a joke, or she was serious. She asked me to marry her. She was serious. It was pretty funny.

It's not a very high failure rate if you choose people that you really like the sound of.

People would love to be rich, but they're looking for the easy way. Who wouldn't want to win the lottery? Just to score.

If you're a person who complains about everything all the time, then you're just the boy who cried 'wolf.' But if you do it on occasion and about the right reasons, then people listen.