Matthew Barnett Quotes

#1. Now I see that night does something to a person's identity, even when asleep.

Djuna Barnes

#2. The church has no authority to preach of inclusivity if we fear altering the look of our church by bringing in the poor.

Matthew Barnett

#3. Stay optimistic to the point where people question your sanity.

Matthew Barnett

#4. A power of obtaining veracity in the representation of material and tangible things, which, within certain limits and conditions, is unimpeachable, has now been placed in the hands of all men, almost without labour. (1853)

John Ruskin

#5. The primary reason people watch television is you want to see the world through somebody else's eyes, and learn what that's like. You can only live one life, and so you get to see other lives through these characters.

Frank Spotnitz

#6. Be so positive and optimistic that people give up trying to contain you.

Matthew Barnett

#7. So, at one extreme you have indigenous, tribal societies trying to stem the race to disaster. At the other extreme, the richest, most powerful societies in world history, like the United States and Canada, are racing full-speed ahead to destroy the environment as quickly as possible.

Noam Chomsky

#8. Never let a few people that don't get you, shape you, into their limited knowledge of what you can become.

Matthew Barnett

#9. Creativity is the quality that enables us to generate novel approaches to situations and to discover new and improved solutions to problems.

Thomas Vogel

#10. Ordinary faithfulness leads to extraordinary impact.

Matthew Barnett

#11. Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame.

Tertullian

#12. Sometimes your dream has to die so God's dream can come alive in you.

Matthew Barnett

#13. Sometimes we hold on to something - a person, a resentment, a regret, an idea of who we are - because we don't know what to reach for next.

Huntley Fitzpatrick

#14. Honey, a man can't keep his gun in a cookie jar. It just isn't done.

Janet Evanovich

#15. Never grow weary in the fight to rescue the most forgotten.

Matthew Barnett

#16. with center aligned

Anonymous

#17. You would think that a man who's spent as much time in the theater as I have would know when the proper time came for the hero to die-if he was to be a hero. I missed my cue for the great suicide scene

Kurt Vonnegut

#18. Wanting to quit is a sign of success because it means you have something to quit; but don't quit.

Matthew Barnett

#19. If you live your life with palms up, you'll be happy only at Christmastime and your birthday, but if you live your life with palms down, you'll be happy 365 days a year.

Matthew Barnett

#20. The urge to quit is strongest just before breakthroughs occur. Those are the times when it's most important to stay focused and committed. You will encounter the urge to quit many times. Get over it. Quitting is not an option; always be prepared to give it one more day.

Matthew Barnett

#21. The quickest way to forget about your pain is to help someone who hurts more ...

Matthew Barnett

#22. When you nag, you become the problem, an he deals with it by turning you out, but when you dont nag, he deals with the problem.

Sherry Argov