John Pearson Quotes

The occasion of this sadness is expressed in a word, but must be considered in many more, as being the principal concernment both of the Text and Time.

John Pearson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: theologian
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: February 28, 1612 - July 16, 1686

Topics

TimeSadnessPrincipalMoreText

There's so much of our behavior that kind of curdles and hardens as we get into adulthood, and it becomes so much more difficult to be hopeful and to dream extravagantly.

Jenny Zhang

BehaviorDreamKindMoreDifficult

What some folks find funny, other folks find tragic.

Melvin Van Peebles

FunnyFindOtherTragicSomeFolks

I like it when you read a script and there's the part that you show to the other characters and then there's the part that only the audience knows.

Anjelica Huston

YouAudienceShowOnlyLikeKnows

The National League was born the following year, as an attempt to exert the control of capital over labor.

John Thorn

ControlYearBornLaborOverLeague

By the time I did that third solo album, I'd finally learned how to do it, but I'd also learned that I liked being in a band.

Tommy Shaw

TimeBandSoloBeingFinallyHow

The direction is going the right way for respect for aboriginal people in North America, and all we can do is stand up and say, 'Please do it faster.'

Robbie Robertson

RespectPeopleStand UpDirectionUp

I restore vintage Atari XY arcade video game machines.

Roger Avary

GameVintageArcadeRestoreMachines

I just like Forrest Gump. Maybe I'm a little smarter than him, maybe I'm not. Probably because of the whole Southern aspect of his character and for some reason I always wind up on the better end of all deals... I've just kind of got the old silly boy luck!

Luke Bryan

CharacterLuckWindEndBetterKind

Agents and publishers are always looking for something 'different,' a fresh viewpoint and a new voice, not just re-hashed versions of stuff that's gone before.

Lisa Jewell

LookingVoiceNewAlwaysFreshGone

I've been out to Walter Reed on unannounced visits. I've seen these soldiers. I've met their families.

Dick Durbin

SoldiersOutSeenBeenMetVisits

The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am. Losers, on the other hand, concentrate their waking thoughts on what they should have or would have done, or what they can't do.

Denis Waitley

LifeI AmThoughtsThinkI CanDone

No one would ever cast me as an aristocrat. I think the big thing about being an Irish artist is access to melancholy. Especially the American Irish. The availability of loss, some kind of pain, is an important part of who we are. I think my Irishness gave me that.

Brian Dennehy

PainMeThinkAmericanLossArtist

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