Art Briles Quotes

#1. What made al Qaeda retrieve the doctrine of militant jihad, and Breivik the ideas of crusade and reconquest, is a sense of siege. So, we should help both Westerners and Muslims get rid of that sense by easing their political tensions and by fostering dialogue between them.

Mustafa Akyol

#2. I'll fight a man with three children and a nice house any day over a man that's living out of a car.

Art Briles

#3. If we could see the whole truth of any situation, our only response would be one of compassion.

Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche

#4. I played a heap of snow in a school play. I was under a sheet, and crawled out when spring came. I often say I'll never reach the same artistic level again.

Stellan Skarsgard

#5. Married and buried, wed and dead.

Rachel Caine

#6. What we cannot remember, we must rediscover.

Robert Charles Wilson

#7. If you're a manager and you're stuck doing the same thing year after year, you're going to get stale and not know how to motivate people. Part of becoming better at what you do requires challenging yourself on a constant basis.

Art Briles

#8. To-day we love, what to-morrow we hate.

Wilkie Collins

#9. Great things only come with great effort.

Art Briles

#10. All good art is seditious, but the people in authority can never recognise it. I think when you mention sedition, artists are the ones whose eyes light up thinking, 'Oh, yes, I want some of that!'

Michael Leunig

#11. It's the very awfulness of [murder] that makes reading about it feel so cozy.

Louise Doughty

#12. I have a perfect life where I read; I go out into the wilderness and camp. I meet scientists and learn about their studies of wild animals, and then I come home ... and start creating the world I have seen.

Jean Craighead George

#13. When you are trying to change the questions, you have to realize that many people are quite resistant to such a change. They like the answers they have.

Stanley Hauerwas

#14. I love the idea of spies in love. How would it work between two people who were so programmed to lie and be suspicious, who have a whole life based on pretence?

Tony Gilroy

#15. The men have piled up in my past, have fallen trenchantly through my life, like an avalanche that doesn't mean to kill but is going to bury me alive just the same.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

#16. If one took no chances, one would not fly at all. Safety lies in the judgment of the chances one takes.

Charles Lindbergh

#17. Only true remorse and "Will you forgive me?" can press the reset button.

Andy Andrews