Greg Boyle Quotes

You stand with the least likely to succeed until success is succeeded by something more valuable: kinship. You stand with the belligerent, the surly and the badly behaved until bad behavior is recognized for the language it is: the vocabulary of the deeply wounded and of those whose burdens are more than they can bear.

Greg Boyle

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SuccessSucceedLanguageBehavior

The quality of our lives is diminished every time we lose a great artist. It's a different world without Sam Cooke, Otis Redding, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, Curtis Mayfield, Brian Jones and the rest.

Steven Van Zandt

GreatTimeQualityWorldRestLose

An idea is an eye given by God for the seeing of God. Some of these eyes we cannot bear to look out of; we blind them as quickly as possible.

Russell Hoban

GodEyesEyeBlindSeeingLook

Today the white child is sold for two dollars a week to the manufacturers.

Mary Harris Jones

TodayChildWeekWhiteTwoSold

Musically, New York is a big influence on me. Walk down the street for five minutes and you'll hear homeless punk rockers, people playing Caribbean music and reggae, sacred Islamic music and Latino music, so many different types of music.

Moby

MusicWalkNew YorkPeopleMeYou

Watching a film should feel like you just tore a hole out of the air and the void caught fire.

Josh Fox

FireFeelYouWatchingAirOut

My husband, Nick Chiles and I wrote a number of relationship books together, and what we found was that women were thirsty to hear directly from men.

Denene Millner

WomenRelationshipMenTogetherHear

Television lets audiences deeply connect with characters.

Claire Danes

TelevisionConnectCharactersDeeply

We are always going to be influenced by America... I watched the word 'bum' go out and 'butt' come in. And part of me says, oh that's a shame, but Aussie boys are still Aussie boys.

Bryan Brown

MeAmericaGoButtShameOut

Previous efforts to eradicate malaria failed for several reasons, including political instability and technical challenges in delivering resources, especially in certain countries in Africa.

Anthony Fauci

ChallengesPoliticalAfricaResources

My father's very public life as Famous Amos was the opposite of that of his ex-wife, my mother Shirley, who was fighting a very private, solitary battle with mental illness.

Shawn Amos

LifeFatherMotherBattleFighting

However, please allow me to say that the fundamental style of my writing has been to start from my personal matters and then to link it up with society, the state and the world.

Kenzaburo Oe

StyleMeWritingWorldStartSay

I think I would have been a reasonably good lawyer. I have a faculty for making sense of mountains of information.

Hilary Mantel

GoodMountainsLawyerThinkSense

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