R.E. Butler Quotes

I don't know that I'd necessarily want to see into the future. I don't want to know what's happening next.

I'll try anything once.

I had to skydive for the movie and I was terrified. Like everybody, I thought it was going to be one of those experiences that changes your life. It didn't.

I'm the oldest 26-year-old I know. A lot of experience has been crammed into a short amount of time. Some days I feel a good 65, 70. Like I want to lie down.

To say I'm the easiest person to live with would be a lie.

Once you get into a part, and someone sees you, you get asked to do it again.

A comic can be aesthetically beautiful. I think they captured it beautifully and accurately.

I think seeing some of the past can be helpful, especially if you're into crime solving.

I hope I don't just sit around moping for two years.

Yancy is actually a Native-American name, but I'm Irish. Go figure.

I've always played strong women who are doing their own thing.

I pretty much make time for that weekly manicure.

In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.

He couldn't understand how he was awarded medals and honors for clubbing and bayoneting people, and be called a barbarian for killing seals.

All that you touchYou Change.All that you ChangeChanges you.The only lasting truthis Change.Godis Change.

God is Change.Earthseed: The Books of the LivingLauren Oya Olamina

In order to rise from its own ashes, a Phoenix first must burn.

All animals except man know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.

It doesn’t matter what’s wrong with him. We’re not going to act like he doesn’t exist. Not anymore.

There is nothing new under the sun, but there are new suns.

The overarching narrative of the Bible is that of humanity searching for home.

No, the safest thing is to become an island. To make your house a citadel against all the garbage and ugliness in the world. How else can you be sure of anything?

An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less until he knows absolutely everything about nothing.

You cannot control the past but you have control over the life you build going forward.

He rubbed his head again. 'Five years is longer than it sounds. So much longer.

The oldest books are still only just out to those who have not read them.

Consider--We are bornNot with purpose, But with potential.

Dreams that do come true can be as unsettling as those that don't.

Funny thing about love, ain’t it? Sometimes it saves you and sometimes, like right then, even love isn’t enough.

The moment that we think we know, we’ve lost our perspective on wisdom.

Conversion is not a single prayer. Conversion is pilgrimage.

Was an eternity of absolute ease just another name for hell?

Read every day and learn from what you read.

It has been said that although God cannot alter the past, historians can --it is perhaps because they can be useful to Him in this respect that He tolerates their existence.

We are one people until you decide we are one person in the churning sea of humanity.

You've evolved when you realize the effect that your positive contributions to others create ripples of humanity in the sea of life.

To do great work one must be very idle as well as very industrious.

Truth might be heroic, but it was not within the range of practical domestic politics.

I've never been part of an formation where the leader succeeded on their own merits apart from their Soldier's.

There are orphanages, " he exclaimed to himself, "for children who have lost their parents--oh! why, why, why, are there no harbours of refuge for grown men who have not yet lost them?

I began writing about power because I had so little.

Power came the way a child came -- with agony.

There’s no god, it’s the elements that control this world and everything on it.

Racism and violence were non-existent in this world, When people were aware to fight for identity'- Terzanelle for Octavia Estelle Butler, Poem by Marieta Maglas

He didn't want just one morning with her, just one dawn breaking across the horizon. He wanted every dawn forever, every night, and the hours in between.

You don’t know what your account balance of personal courage is until that situation presents itself where that check needs to be written and cashed

Winning doesn't necessarily mean you'll walk away with a trophy. Sometimes winning means you dared to show up at all to see the shocked look of your rivals.

The revised edition of my book "A Woman Of Courage" is now available .

It would surely be a mistake to gauge the success of feminism by its success as a colonial project. p41.

We must be undone in order to do ourselves: we must be part of a larger social fabric of existence in order to create who we are.