Top 100 Roland Quotes
#1. Do you believe in an afterlife?" the gunslinger asked him as Brown dropped three ears of hot corn onto his plate.
Brown nodded. "I think this is it.
Stephen King
#2. Now take all the delights of the earth, melt them into one single delight, and cast it entire into a single man - all this will be as nothing to the delight of which I speak.
Roland Barthes
#3. You know, Roland and I were just talking about how we don't have any pyromaniac friends. And everyone knows you need a good pyro to pull off any reform school prank worth the effort.
Lauren Kate
#4. If the movie's well made and it's about things that count, people will ultimately see the depth in it.
Roland Joffe
#5. The photographic image ... is a message without a code.
Roland Barthes
#6. There is nothing in discourse that is not to be found in a sentence.
Roland Barthes
#7. To be engulfed: outburst of annihilation which affects the amorous subject in despair or fulfillment. At its best, when it's fulfillment, it's a kind of disappearance at will. An easeful death. Death liberated from dying.
Roland Barthes
#8. The only thing you'll find on the summit of Mount Everest is a divine view. The things that really matter lie far below.
Roland Smith
#9. If I had to create a god, I would lend him a "slow understanding": a kind of drip-by-drip understanding of problems. People who understand quickly frighten me.
Roland Barthes
#11. The real work was the identification of those aspects of yourself that led to what he called "the negative emotions" - anger, envy, bitterness, greed, cynicism, hatred and the like - things that poured hurt into an already overfull world.
Roland Merullo
#12. Men who hold a theory of the Church which excludes from communion those whom they admit to have the Spirit of Christ simply proclaim that their theory is in flat contradiction to the spiritual fact.
Roland Allen
#13. The man in black fled across the dessert and the gunslinger followed.
Stephen King
#14. Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is in speech because we forget that all speech is a classification, and that all classifications are oppressive.
Roland Barthes
#15. I jumped off the wheel of fortune because I wanted to simplify things. Now I've fulfilled my obligations to myself by making my new record. I'd like it to sell millions of copies, but my self - worth is not based on chart positions.
Roland Gift
#16. When you have known someone your whole life you don't need a lot of warm-up time to get into a big argument. All the fore-play has been done years ago, and so the battle sits in your memory like stove gas awaiting the match. A wrong word, a careless allusion, and the old fire is suddenly raging.
Roland Merullo
#17. I came to be emulated. That's what people didn't get. Followed, as in being an example, as in making your interior world resemble mine. p. 22
Roland Merullo
#18. When we look at a photograph of ourselves or of others, we are really looking at the return of the dead.
Roland Barthes
#19. I think faith is vitally important to your day, your seconds in each day. Faith helps to get you through the day.
Roland Martin
#20. For a climber, saying that you are stopping by Everest is like saying that you are stopping by to see God.
Roland Smith
#21. The bastard form of mass culture is humiliated repetition ... always new books, new programs, new films, news items, but always the same meaning.
Roland Barthes
#22. There are teachers who say that one of the main obstacles, spiritual obstacles, for westerners is a sense of unworthiness, a self-limiting sense of what's possible for them in a human life.
Roland Merullo
#24. Some people use their own hurt as an excuse for hurting others
Roland Merullo
#25. Simply by being your absolute, most genuine self in every interaction of every hour, you provide a great and rare service on this earth.
Roland Merullo
#27. Hope you two boys can dig. There'll be some digging to do." "Graves?" Eddie asked, not sure if he was joking or not. "Graves come later." Roland looked up at the sky, but the clouds had advanced out of the west and stolen the stars. "Just remember, it's the winners who dig them.
Stephen King
#28. By the way, don't 'weep inwardly' and get a sore throat. If you must weep, weep: a good honest howl! I suspect we - and especially, my sex - don't cry enough now-a-days. Aeneas and Hector and Beowulf, Roland and Lancelot blubbered like schoolgirls, so why shouldn't we?
C.S. Lewis
#29. We all carry pieces of our journeys within us," Roland said. "We all learn from our mistakes. Who's to say we don't deserve happiness?
Lauren Kate
#30. There's a rule in Hollywood: stay away from water and stay away from snow, and I had both.
Roland Emmerich
#31. Sometimes love was not about winning, but about wise sacrifice and the realiability of friends like Arianne. Friendship, Roland realized, was its very own kind of love.
Lauren Kate
#32. Roland gave her a courtier's smile. "And what sort of work do you do for my uncle?
"
Dorian shifted on his feet and Chaol went very still, but Celaena returned Roland's smile and said, "I bury the king's opponents where nobody will ever find them.
Sarah J. Maas
#33. If we do not die for liberty, we shall soon have nothing left to do but weep for her.
Madame Roland
#34. Roland Emmerich is a very interesting individual. He is more erudite and well-read than most of the people I know.
Chin Han
#36. Everything began all over again immediately: arrival of manuscripts, requests, people's stories, each person mercilessly pushing ahead his own little demand (for love, for gratitude): No sooner has she departed than the world deafens me with its continuance.
Roland Barthes
#37. We want Paul's theology and his results but not his methods.
Roland Allen
#38. Every new Fashion is a refusal to inherit, a subversion against the oppression of the preceding Fashion; Fashion experiences itself as a Right, the natural right of the present over the past.
Roland Barthes
#39. I simply wanted to state that during this little slice of history, this is what happened and these were the good sides of it, these were the more dangerous sides of it, and this was the result.
Roland Joffe
#40. The apostles were moved, not so much by an intellectual apprehension, as by a spiritual illumination. They met men, and the need of those men whom they met cried aloud to them.
Roland Allen
#41. While growing up in Birmingham around a lot of West Indian people, reggae and calypso were big influences early on but Otis Redding was the one person who made me wanna sing myself.
Roland Gift
#42. Incoherence seems to me preferable to a distorting order.
Roland Barthes
#43. The Ventoux is a god of Evil, to which sacrifices must be made. It never forgives weakness and extracts an unfair tribute of suffering.
Roland Barthes
#44. What if I fall?', Tim cried.
Maerlyn laughed. 'Sooner or later, we all do.
Stephen King
#45. Resist fear," Jesus said. "Fear is always in the future. Cut through it. Resist it.
Roland Merullo
#46. The art of living has no history: it does not evolve: the pleasure which vanishes vanishes for good, there is no substitute for it. Other pleasures come, which replace nothing. No progress in pleasures, nothing but mutations.
Roland Barthes
#47. Suicide
How would I know I don't suffer any more, if I'm dead?
Roland Barthes
#48. There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it.
Roland Barthes
#50. Everyone is "extremely nice" - and yet I feel entirely alone. ("Abandonitis").
Roland Barthes
#51. We need people who truly live their faith, represent their faith, speaking to the issues of faith through a faith prism as opposed to just having folks talking about faith when there is a crisis.
Roland Martin
#52. I passed beyond the unreality of the thing represented, I entered crazily into the spectacle, into the image, taking into my arms what is dead, what is going to die ...
Roland Barthes
#53. Suffering is a form of egoism.
I speak only of myself. I am not talking about her, saying what she was, making an overwhelming portrait (like the one Gide made of Madeleine).
(Yet: everything is true: the sweetness, the energy, the nobility, the kindness.)
Roland Barthes
#54. Myth is neither a lie nor a confession: it is an inflexion.
Roland Barthes
#55. Where imaginary mole hills turn into hallucinatory mountains
Roland Huntford
#56. We must be willing to begin with positive teaching, not with negative prohibitions, and be content to wait and to watch whilst the native Christians slowly recreate their own customs as the Spirit of Christ gradually teaches them ...
Roland Allen
#57. I hold to no God," Roland said. "I hold to the Tower, and won't pray to that.
Stephen King
#58. If she picked Roland over you, that makes her the greatest fool who ever lived.
Sarah J. Maas
#59. To whom could I put this question (with any hope of an answer)? Does being able to live without someone you loved mean you loved her less than you thought ... ?
Roland Barthes
#61. I try to busy myself elsewhere, to arrive late; but I always lose at this game. Whatever I do, I find myself there, with nothing to do, punctual, even ahead of time.
Roland Barthes
#62. I'm not a very serious person. You know how they say that clowns are very funny in public and are really sad at home? I'm really kind of stupid at home and more serious in public.
Roland Joffe
#63. A good writer should draw the reader in by starting in the middle of the story with a hook, then go back and fill in what happened before the hook. Once you have the reader hooked, you can write whatever you want as you slowly reel them in.
Roland Smith
#64. All official institutions of language are repeating machines: school, sports, advertising, popular songs, news, all continually repeat the same structure, the same meaning, often the same words: the stereotype is a political fact, the major figure of ideology.
Roland Barthes
#65. We can change the direction of the country with our vote.
Roland Martin
#68. It exists only for me. For you, it would be nothing but an indifferent picture.
Roland Barthes
#69. I'd like to say I'm on a natural high," Cam said.
"This hike would have ruined John Denver," Roland agreed.
Lauren Kate
#70. It was like being in the start of an earthquake. Before that, whatever else happened, however bad things had been, you were at least sure the ground would stay still.
Roland Merullo
#71. I've never wanted to do something where I'd berate the audience.
Roland Joffe
#72. How to Kill a Superhero: A Gay Bondage Manual is the first book in the Gold Apocalypse series, which follows the adventures of Roland in his quest to harness the powers of the Golden Man.
Pablo Greene
#73. The spontaneous expansion of the Church reduced to its elements is a very simple thing ... What is necessary is faith. What is needed is the kind of faith which uniting a man to Christ, sets him on fire.
Roland Allen
#74. Used to be all I'd want to learn was wisdom, trust and truth, now all I really want to learn is Forgiveness for you
Ed Roland
#75. - You have never known a Woman's body!
- I have known the body of my mother, sick and then dying.
Roland Barthes
#76. Of course it's heavier, he thought. It's got my grief in it. I pull it along with me everywhere I go, so I do.
Stephen King
#77. Eventually, the tribe developed so much confidence in me that they invited me to be their chieftain.
Roland Joffe
#78. What we need to be assured of is not that we possess an excellent system of doctrine and ritual, but that the gift of the Holy Spirit is a reality.
Roland Allen
#79. How does meaning get into the image? Where does it end? And if it ends, what is there beyond?
Roland Barthes
#80. Christ had given the apostles a world-wide commission, embracing all the nations; but intellectually they did not understand what He meant. They found that out as they followed the impulse of the Spirit.
Roland Allen
#81. If you spend a whole afternoon just eating popcorn and watching football, there's absolutely nothing wrong with that. But if that's all you do, you get swept along with the tide, without any idea of where you're going.
Roland Joffe
#82. The worse thing you can do in a fight is stop moving. When someone attacks, they create force, movement, momentum, but you'll be okay as long as you can see and feel the direction of that force and travel with it.
Victoria Schwab
#83. We have a tradition in Tibet. Sacred craziness. Men and women who act in a strange way. People think they are fools, but their wisdom, in fact, is more than those we call normal.
Roland Merullo
#84. Despite the difficulties of my story, despite discomforts, doubts, despairs, despite impulses to be done with it, I unceasingly affirm love, within myself, as a value.
Roland Barthes
#85. He held out a hand, I am Lord Bradley, noble nobody if you must know, and greatest source of annoyance to his lordship, Roland. My brother-in-law.
Nicole Sager
#86. In terms of image-repertoire, the Photographer (the one I intend) represents that very subtle moment when, to tell the truth, I am neither subject nor object but a subject who feels he is becoming an object: I then experience a micro-version of death.
Roland Barthes
#87. I am not one of these people who wants everyone to live the way I live. What causes more trouble on our troubled earth than people like that?
Roland Merullo
#88. If Christ's message could be distilled down to one line, that line would have to do with kindness and inclusiveness, not rules and divisiveness.
Roland Merullo
#89. I like that kind of thing. I like warmth and uncalled-for kindness, the small unnoticed generosities that speckle the meanness of the world.
Roland Merullo
#90. In arriving at a decision in a question of doubt, the apostles in the Acts were guided solely by their sense of the Spirit behind the action, not by any speculations as to consequences which might ensue. And so they found the truth.
Roland Allen
#91. My lord, I cannot thank you enough for what you've done for my daughters," he muttered. Lucien had paid Roland's debts, however it had cost her father his freedom to allow Lucien to do so. Their agreement
Denise Hampton
#92. Him's name is Roland, Mama. I dream about him, sometimes. Him's a King, too.
Stephen King
#93. It's hard to blame someone because they simply don't have time.
Roland Joffe
#94. I have tried to be as eclectic as I possibly can with my professional life, and so far it's been pretty fun.
Roland Barthes
#96. The whole point of a spectacular tag is not the artwork; it's the mystery of how it was done.
Roland Smith
#97. The Spirit is Love expressed towards man as redeeming love, and the Spirit is truth, and the Spirit is the Holy Spirit. Redemption is inconceivable without truth and holiness.
Roland Allen
#98. Pleasure is continually disappointed, reduced, deflated, in favor of strong, noble values: Truth, Death, Progress, Struggle, Joy, etc. Its victorious rival is Desire: we are always being told about Desire, never about Pleasure.
Roland Barthes
#99. Would you rather die, or be unwound? Now he finally knows the answer. Maybe this is what he wanted. Maybe it's why he stood there and taunted Roland. Because he'd rather be killed with a furious hand than dismembered with cool indifference.
Neal Shusterman
#100. Writing is the destruction of every voice, of every point of origin.
Roland Barthes
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