Famous Quotes

Quotes by Beck

• It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.
• It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world.
• It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.
• It's a very difficult thing losing a parent, but I think there's an added complication for me, because he was so well-loved and he had this very open charm that made people feel they had a personal relationship with him.
• It's wonderful to have the most important thing in the world there first thing in the morning. And especially in this business, where the opportunity to think everything is about you is there every day, now I really know that it isn't all about me.
• Jazz is about freedom within discipline. Usually a dictatorship like in Russia and Germany will prevent jazz from being played because it just seemed to represent freedom, democracy and the United States.
• Jazz stands for freedom. It's supposed to be the voice of freedom: Get out there and improvise, and take chances, and don't be a perfectionist - leave that to the classical musicians.
• Learning is always rebellion... Every bit of new truth discovered is revolutionary to what was believed before.
• Let me go over this again on the reclaiming the civil rights movement. People of faith that believe that you have an equal right to justice - that is the essence. And if it's not the essence, then we've been sold a pack of lies. The essence is everyone deserves a shot - the content of character, not the color of skin.
• Let me tell you, it is still morning in America. It just happens to be kind of a head pounding, hung over for four hours in America - and it's shaping up to be a nasty day, but its still morning in America.
• Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It's too controversial.
• Man, unlike anything organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.
• Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased.
• Many are needed to plant and water what has been planted now that the faith has spread so far and there are so many people... No matter who plants or waters, God gives no harvest unless what is planted is the faith of Peter and unless he agrees to his teachings.
• Many people don't understand how disciplined you have to be to play jazz... And that is really the idea of democracy - freedom within the Constitution or discipline. You don't just get out there and do anything you want.
• Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery.
• Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass.
• Most women put off entertaining until the kids are grown.
• Music is the language of the heart, and conservatives always screw it up.
• My dad was the manager at the 45,000-acre ranch, but he owned his own 1,200-acre ranch, and I owned four cattle that he gave to me when I graduated from grammar school, from the eighth grade. And those cows multiplied, and he kept track of them for years for me. And that was my herd.
• My kids always perceived the bathroom as a place where you wait it out until all the groceries are unloaded from the car.
• My own nature hovers between neurotic and paranoid. I've developed the habit of mentally listing things that make me optimistic about the future. I do it every day.
• My point is that perceptual bias can affect nut jobs and scientists alike. If we hold too rigidly to what we think we know, we ignore or avoid evidence of anything that might change our mind.
• Neither science, nor the politics in power, nor the mass media, nor business, nor the law nor even the military are in a position to define or control risks rationally.
• Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
• Never go to your high school reunion pregnant or they will think that is all you have done since you graduated.
• Never have more children than you have car windows.
• Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth.
• Never order food in excess of your body weight.
• No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.
• No matter how difficult and painful it may be, nothing sounds as good to the soul as the truth.
• No one else can take risks for us, or face our losses on our behalf, or give us self-esteem. No one can spare us from life's slings and arrows, and when death comes, we meet it alone.
• No one is guaranteed happiness. You can pursue it, but if you happen to find success along the way on that road to happiness, Conservatives believe you should not be demonized or penalized for it.
• No, I regret nothing, all I regret is having been born, dying is such a long tiresome business I always found.
• Not a single time have we gotten a right from Congress or from the President. We get them from God.
• Nothing amazes me anymore.
• Once you get a spice in your home, you have it forever. Women never throw out spices. The Egyptians were buried with their spices. I know which one I'm taking with me when I go.