B. R. Hayden Quotes

Why should American atrocities be merely unsettling, but a trip to Hanoi unconscionable?

Twice the Republicans in the California legislature tried to block my seating because of my trips to Hanoi.

A sailing ship is no democracy; you don't caucus a crew as to where you'll go anymore than you inquire when they'd like to shorten sail.

They motivate us to play, be affectionate, seek adventure and be loyal.

Teachers have three loves: love of learning, love of learners, and the love of bringing the first two loves together.

To be truly challenging, a voyage, like a life, must rest on a firm foundation of financial unrest.

As you continue writing and rewriting, you begin to see possibilities you hadn't seen before. Writing a poem is always a process of discovery.

All this going around is not aggression. If you want to see aggression on cricket field, look into Rahul Dravid’s eyes

Art is not escape, but a way of finding order in chaos, a way of confronting life.

It's a fun day, a day which kicks off the start of our tour, it's got great tradition - Australian cricketers just love tradition - and it's been a really pleasant day.

Perhaps the greatest magic of the human spirit is the ability to laugh, at ourselves, at each other, and at our sometimes hopeless situation. Laughter normalized our lives

I believe it's true that one person can make a difference. But how much more difference 100 people make, or rather 99.

If you TRY, and you just BELIEVE, you CAN; you WILL.

We must not be frightened nor cajoled into accepting evil as deliverance from evil. We must go on struggling to be human, though monsters of abstractions police and threaten us.

Wind is to us what money is to life on shore.

Every girl likes feeling hot and sexy and beautiful and likes hearing it.

In football, like in life, you must learn to play within the rules of the game.

A silent majority and government by the people is incompatible.

I think people are entitled to march without a permit. When you have a few hundred thousand people on the street you have permission.

This freedom, this liberty, this beautiful and terrible thing, needful to man as air, usable as earth.

Our crime was that we were beginning to live a new and contagious life-style without official authorization.

I've always wanted to be a Meryl Streep or a Natalie Portman. I want to do all kinds of different movies, to be a chameleon. I don't want to limit myself.

[My poetry is] a way of coming to grips with reality . . . a way of discovery and definition. It is a way of solving for the unknowns.

I am the Vietcong. We are everywhere! We are all Vietcong.

The issue of civil rights was too much for the establishment to handle. One of the chapters of history thats least studied by historians is the 300 to 500 riots in the U.S. between 1965 and 1970.

Gentrification and consumerism... have destroyed the character of my favorite American haunts, like North Beach, Berkeley, Venice and Aspen.

Then you have [Donald] Trump. So it could be the tightest, most hazardous race in political history and we can't afford to allow Trump to slither through. So that's where I'm at.

We'll take what the other team gives us. We'll scratch where it itches.

Deterrence is the art of producing, in the mind of the enemy, the fear to attack.

Communism is one of the options that can improve people's lives.

As well have a talon as a finger, a muzzle as a mouth, as well have a hollow as a heart.

Your presence was shore where I rested/ released from the hoodoo of that dance, where I spoke/ with my true voice again.

Already this war on gangs in California is taking money from universities to build prisons, and the universities have some clout.

He led quite a great life, ... He was an Old Testament figure railing against the establishment - a Jewish guy from New York who became a Buddhist, a poet, a musician.

Harriet Tubman, woman of earth, whipscarred, a summoning, a shinning

The peace and justice movement has to expand and not run away from the plight of gang members.

I'm not ready to give you a clear answer on whether electoral politics holds any particular hope for progressives. It would mean that nothing I did ever mattered.

We ourselves are imbued with urgency, yet the message of our society is' that there is no viable alternative to the present.

Welcome to the Salvation Army. I've never been associated with an offense so nice about giving the ball away.

A long time ago, in a country not so far away, I was eight years old, doing my best Darth Vader imitation.

Sundays too my father got up early and put his clothes on in the blueblack cold, then with cracked hands that ached from labor in the weekday weather made banked fire blazes. No one ever thanked him.

It seemed to me as we were talking about Christ rising from the dead, the sun popped over the mountain. That was indicative of Christ rising - a new day. It just makes sense.

Everyone has their own approach to how they work.

He likes to take strolls by himself and believes dog-catchers are friendly innkeepers who'll take care of a meal. He's gullible and has never learned to fight back against a ruthless world.

[Donald] Trump is fascism, that's all, so we have to find a way to work it out between Hillary [Clinton] and Bernie [Sanders].

Standing to America, bringing home black gold, black ivory, black seed.

Ewan McGregor and I had very similar first-time light sabre experiences. We both burned ourselves! These things are hot - they're full of batteries!

When the students in the South, the blacks, started demonstrating, that was the beginning of the time of students becoming a social force around the world.

How can a coach have any influence over a player that's making over five times more than he is?

Midnight Special on a sabre track movering movering, first stop Mercy and the last Hallelujah.