Famous Quotes

Quotes by Beck

• 'Hello my name is the Republican Party and I got a problem. I'm addicted to spending and big government.' I'd like one of them just to stand up and say that.
• A country is made not by policy alone, but by its music, its entertainment shows, all of it.
• A friend doesn't go on a diet because you are fat.
• A friend never defends a husband who gets his wife an electric skillet for her birthday.
• A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.
• A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.
• Absolutely lonely people have few personal interactions of any kind.
• All of us have moments in our lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.
• All theory of modernity in sociology suggests that the more modernity there is, the less religion. In my theory we can realize that this is wrong: atheism is only one belief system among many.
• Allowing children to show their guilt, show their grief, show their anger, takes the sting out of the situation.
• Although beauty may be in the eye of the beholder, the feeling of being beautiful exists solely in the mind of the beheld.
• And I've come to the place where I believe that there's no way to solve these problems, these issues - there's nothing that we can do that will solve the problems that we have and keep the peace, unless we solve it through God, unless we solve it in being our highest self. And that's a pretty tall order.
• Anger elicits anger, fear elicits fear, no matter how well meaning we may be.
• Anything you're trying to will is focused on the future it's always associated with some sort of anxiety that makes the present moment somewhat uncomfortable.
• Art is creative for the sake of realization, not for amusement... for transfiguration, not for the sake of play.
• Art is the child of Nature yes, her darling child, in whom we trace the features of the mother's face, her aspect and her attitude.
• At any rate, I can only see such a success having positive effects for everyone, particularly as our anticipation of the World cup would only increase further.
• Back then, a half-a-century ago, the situation was totally different. Economically, we were practically on our knees, and politically, we were still excluded from the community of nations. Today, in this respect, we have a totally different and much more stable basis.
• Being a child at home alone in the summer is a high-risk occupation. If you call your mother at work thirteen times an hour, she can hurt you.
• Birth was the death of him.
• Bracketing has turned all my experiences, remembered and present, into a gallery of miracles where I wander around dazzled by the beauty of events I cannot explain.
• By the time I was 30, nobody would work with me. I was friendless, I was hopeless, I was suicidal, lost my family - I mean, it was bad. Bottomed out, didn't know what I was going to do. I actually thought I was going to be a chef - go to work in a kitchen someplace.
• Car designers are just going to have to come up with an automobile that outlasts the payments.
• Children make your life important.
• Denial exists because human infants, though equipped with trust-o-meters, are built to trust, blindly and absolutely, any older person who wanders past.
• Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one Helen Keller is the other.
• Dreams have only one owner at a time. That's why dreamers are lonely.
• Every time the government grows we lose more of who we are.
• Every time you go in, it's like starting over. You don't know how you did the other records. You're learning all over. It's some weird musician amnesia, or maybe the road wipes it out.
• For years my wedding ring has done its job. It has led me not into temptation. It has reminded my husband numerous times at parties that it's time to go home. It has been a source of relief to a dinner companion. It has been a status symbol in the maternity ward.
• Getting out of the hospital is a lot like resigning from a book club. You're not out of it until the computer says you're out of it.
• Go on failing. Go on. Only next time, try to fail better.
• God created man, but I could do better.
• Good-looking individuals are treated better than homely ones in virtually every social situation, from dating to trial by jury.
• Guilt: the gift that keeps on giving.
• Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
• Hopeful thinking can get you out of your fear zone and into your appreciation zone.