R. B. Hayes Quotes

Finding a master of the dark art of ninjutsu in modern westernized Japan seems as unlikely as finding an active practitioner of the magic of Merlin in contemporary industrialized England.

The worst constructed play is a Bach fugue when compared to life.

I have a string of competitiveness in me. It's really strange 'cause it's not something that I would even expect myself to have, but every now and then it kinda sneaks out, you know.

Every human being on this earth is born with a tragedy, and it isn't original sin. He's born with the tragedy that he has to grow up... a lot of people don't have the courage to do it.

I am not a hero but the brave men who died deserved this honor.

My dad said 'When you love what you do, you never work a day in your life,' and I agree with that.

I'm thrilled, I'm grateful, I'm blessed. I played for the world's greatest professional sports team in history. Once a Dallas Cowboy, always a Dallas Cowboy.

Let me give you a lesson about school. All the kids who were popular end up on the dole with babies. All the nerds end up as pop stars

We now operate in a world in which we can assume neither competence nor good faith from the authorities. The consequences of this simple, devastating realization define American life.

The filth and noise of the crowded streets soon destroy the elasticity of health which belongs to the country boy.

Soul travel can be a general expansion of awareness and knowingness or conscious experience of the heavenly worlds.

It is the desire of the good people of the whole country that sectionalism as a factor in our politics should disappear.

Donald Trump is not going anywhere. And we see as calculated as these are, he has a knack for telling a certain segment of a base what they want.

We assume that we’re masters of our environment, rather than being a part of it.

The truth is, this being errand boy to one hundred and fifty thousand people tires me so by night I am ready for bed instead of soirees.

Mere longevity is a good thing for those who watch Life from the side lines. For those who play the game, an hour may be a year, a single day's work an achievement for eternity.

Religious beliefs are sacred to people, and at all times should be respected and honoured.

I just love music gear, I'm a total geek all around.

It is already too late to avoid mass starvation.

I am a radical in thought (and principle) and a conservative in method (and conduct).

There is a place in this world for satire, but there is a time when satire ends and intolerance and bigotry toward religious beliefs... begins.

Always aim for achievement, and forget about success.

If I could make noise with anything, I was going to.

I love flying planes.

When civilization stands at the edge of a cliff, a step forward doesn't make much sense.

My first instrument was an accordion. Growing up in Louisiana, my grandmother gave me an accordion because of our Cajun heritage.

We may be living in the twentieth century, in resplendent sophistication. But deep down, most of us find ourselves still in the Stone Age of superstition.

Actors work and slave and it is the color of your hair that can determine your fate in the end.

So, yes, we do celebrate America today because the majority will stand up and empower the American people to live that American Dream and to be part of making a better, freer, and safer world.

As we are all aware, Special Operations Forces, SOF, are playing an increasingly essential role as we continue to fight and, more importantly, win the war on terror.

Yes, I did lock myself in my room for about two years and write some songs and things like that. But I don't feel like I missed out on a whole lot.

We live in a very tense society. We are pulled apart... and we all need to learn how to pull ourselves together.... I think that at least part of the answer lies in solitude.

We in the majority have worked hard to empower people to create opportunities, to make jobs, to do things that turn America into a place where people can achieve their dreams.

I would let my child do whatever made their heart sing

The progress of society is mainly the improvement in the condition of the workingmen of the world.

Only the poet can look beyond the detail and see the whole picture.

I wrote The Green Eye of the Little Yellow God in five hours, but I had it all planned out. It isn't poetry and it does not pretend to be, but it does what it sets out to do.

Unjust attacks on public men do them more good than unmerited praise.

Do not let your bachelor ways crystallize so that you can't soften them when you come to have a wife and a family of your own.

One has to grow up with good talk in order to form the habit of it.

He serves his party best who serves the country best.

There's a little vanity chair that Charlie gave me the first Christmas we knew each other. I'll not be parting with that, nor our bed - the four-poster - I'll be needing that to die in.

The independence of all political and other bother is a happiness.

Ted Cruz who's been gaining on [Donald] Trump in Iowa and is polling ahead of him in the latest Monmouth poll would be quite reluctant to criticize Trump's plan saying simply it is not his policy.

I grew up in a fun-loving environment - you work hard and play hard.

I don't believe in making a record and rushing it.

Inequality and hierarchy are natural, but that doesn't mean they are right, that doesn't mean there is isn't a productive tension between those forces and the forces of equality.

When I was in high school, I had binders with pictures of tour buses.

Albums are chapters. They're part of a story.

I am a huge, huge Ronnie Milsap fan. I have been for a long time.