Brian Walker Quotes

Brian Walker and David Salt have written a thoughtful and powerful book to help resource users and managers put resilience thinking into practice and aim toward increasing the sustainability of our world. I urge public officials, scholars, and students in public policy programs to place this volume on their list of must-read books. It is a powerful antidote to the overly simplified proposals too often offered as solutions to contemporary problems at multiple scales. ~ Elinor Ostrom

Intellectual knowledge exists in and of the brain.
Because the brain is part of the body, which must one day expire, this collection of facts, however large and impressive, will expire as well.
Insight, however, is a function of the spirit.
Because your spirit follows you through cycle after cycle of life, death, and rebirth, you have the opportunity of cultivating insight in an ongoing fashion.
Refined over time, insight becomes pure, constant, and unwavering.
This is the beginning of immortality. ~ Lao-Tzu

Remember, I am not trying to orbit the earth. It is a simple elevator ride for 20 minutes. ~ Brian Walker

Charlie Brown is almost a tragic figure. ~ Brian Walker

My Ty. My Ty. Christ. Fuck. Christ. Two words. Just two words. Walker had no clue until that moment that two words could mean so fucking much. He'd never belonged to anyone. He'd never belonged anywhere. Never thought he wanted to. Until he heard those two words. ~ Kristen Ashley

She didn't brighten the whole room for me when she walked in the door. She didn't make my whole day better just by smiling at me, or make me ask myself what she would think of me when I said or did something shitty to somebody. She wasn't the one who made me want to get off my ass and do more, be a better person. Only you've ever done that, sunshine. ~ Cherrie Lynn

It was hard for me to move forward, because I take responsibility for what I introduce into the world through my paintings. So to actually introduce something evil or bad was quite hard for me. ~ Brian Froud

They always say that Albert Einstein was a genius. Then how come when anyone ever calls you that, it's an insult? 'You don't know where you parked the car? Good job, Einstein.' I don't think we're honoring that man properly by using his name in vain in parking lots. ~ Brian Regan

Your name or what you've done on the rugby pitch is not going to carry you through for the rest of your life. I realise I'm going to have to eventually do something else, and that does frighten me a little bit. ~ Brian O'Driscoll

Possessions are a way of turning money into problems. ~ Brian Eno

they are beyond each other's cosmic horizon. ~ Brian Greene

The problem is this: when we separate Jesus from his ideas for an alternative social structure, we inevitably succumb to the temptation to harness Jesus to our ideas - thus conferring upon our human political ideas an assumed divine endorsement. With little awareness of what we are doing, we find ourselves in collusion with the principalities and powers to keep the world in lockstep with the ancient choreography of violence, war, and death. We do this mostly unconsciously, but we do it. I've done it. And the result is that we reduce Jesus to being the Savior who guarantees our reservation in heaven while using him to endorse our own ideas about how to run the world. This feeds into a nationalized narrative of the gospel and leads to a state-owned Jesus. Thus, our understanding of Christ has mutated from Roman Jesus to Byzantine Jesus to German Jesus to American Jesus, etc. ~ Brian Zahnd

Major brands don't know what to do with happy customers. They make it hard for customers to say thanks and way too often companies don't celebrate and embrace customers' positive gestures. ~ Paul Walker

When I was at college, the idea of fashion was more immediate to me, whereas art photography, the depth of it, was a different thing. Storytelling - fanciful storytelling - can only be told through fashion photography. It's the perfect way to play with fantasy and dreams. ~ Tim Walker

My wife and children seem to like me quite a bit, and as long as that is true, I'm really OK. ~ Brian Williams

By the time you have your protagonist attempting to assassinate the Pope, you've sort of signaled that everything is on the table. ~ Brian K. Vaughan

What we have ... is something most folks wait a lifetime for, and only touch for a heartbeat. They let go too quickly, or they're too scared to hold on, or they never see what's right in front of them. But we're going to hold on as tight as we can. - Jonah Walker ~ Molli Moran

The problem is, there is no geographical cure. No matter where we (Black American Folk) go, we are still too plugged into this place. Our cousins, grandmothers, aunts, nieces will be in this place. And the second we start looking at it as a "them" problem, we become another problem. ~ Darnell Lamont Walker

I get off on hearing other people's voices. I like voices: they're my favourite things on records. ~ Brian Wilson

Don't be fooled into thinking that you have the capacity to achieve your best on your own. A training partner in the gym is a great asset because when you think you have reached your limit, there is someone who can push you to go further. ~ Brian Houston

It was a rough crossing, the one from childhood to the next life. And as with any other harsh journey, not everything survived. ~ Karen Thompson Walker

Placebo is music for outsiders, by outsiders and our gigs are like conventions of outcasts, which is cool. ~ Brian Molko

Every place of arrival should have a booth set up and manned by an ordinary person whose task it is to greet strangers and give them a little trophy of local space-time stuff - tell them of his difficulties in high school and put a pinch of soil in their pockets - in order to insure that the stranger shall not become an Anyone. ~ Walker Percy

I think 'The Color Purple' is so bursting with love, the need for connection, the showing of the need for connection around the globe. ~ Alice Walker

The Troubles are a pigmentation in our lives here, a constant irritation that detracts from real life. But life has to do with something else as well, and it's the other things which are the more permanent and real. ~ Brian Friel

It is a meager freedom that leaves no scars ~ Brian Staveley

The thing about oppression is this: when you hold someone down, you, too, have to be there to make sure they don't move. ~ Darnell Lamont Walker

My dream is to own a Hockney - I'm a Yorkshireman, and his vibrant colours are a good example of how the north-country people are vibrant and colourful. ~ Brian Blessed

Funny. The woman was funny. Add that up with cute as a button, smart as a tack, and surprisingly tough underneath that cupcake exterior, and Frank understood why Ghost went all Cro-Magnon around her. ~ Julie Ann Walker

When you put good will out there, it's amazing what can be accomplished, ~ Paul Walker

Marriage is a prisoner's dilemma in which you get to choose the person with whom you're in cahoots. This might seem like a small change, but it potentially has a big effect on the structure of the game you're playing. If you knew that, for some reason, your partner in crime would be miserable if you weren't around - the kind of misery even a million dollars couldn't cure - then you'd worry much less about them defecting and leaving you rot in jail. ~ Brian Christian, Tom Griffiths

I've got a feeling that music might not be the most interesting place to be in the world of things. ~ Brian Eno

Never let others define who you are because most are still trying to figure out who they are. ~ Rodney Walker

She can have them, Mama, she said, like somebody used to never winning anything, or having anything reserved for her. ~ Alice Walker

Did he love Brian? The unspoken answer was a burning ache from head to toe, expanding and pushing against his ribcage.
With every bit of my heart. ~ Keira Andrews

Some people make that decision at 15 and some people make it at 50, and most people never make it all. ~ Brian Tracy

I find that people who give up trying to change themselves tend to want to change other people. ~ Brian Ming

You never got her last name, did you?" Kayden asks, covering his mouth with his hand to try and hide a laugh. The one that still breaks through and makes the urge to hit him even worse.
"It didn't seem important. You wanna clue me in?"
"Taylor. Cadence Taylor. Dumbass. ~ Melyssa Winchester

I like sports. I'm a big football fan. When I was a kid, I was a ... I don't even know how to describe it ... I was an obsessed Brooklyn Dodgers fan. And I think when they left Brooklyn, which was simultaneous with me starting college, everything changed, and I haven't had the same passion for sports. ~ Brian Dennehy

It's crazy. My life has been full of fun and adventure. but i love meeting people who make me feel like I've done nothing. ~ Darnell Lamont Walker

Be in the World, Not of the World - Kind of like Lucky Charms cereal: there are lots of pretty marshmallows in with the cereal, but they're not the same. So live with the cereal, but remember: you're a pretty marshmallow. ~ Laura Jensen Walker

Perhaps we should not be too surprised that nature sometimes appears counterintuitive to a tribe of observant, carbon-based ape descendants roaming around on the surface of a rocky world orbiting an unremarkable middle-aged star at the outer edge of the Milky Way galaxy. ~ Brian Cox

Unconditional acceptance of others is the key to happy relationships. ~ Brian Tracy

Had I glimpsed just a little of the suffering I would witness and the heartbreak I would endure, I would have fled in the other direction ... But I could not foresee any of these things ... And many years later, with tears in my eyes, I remembered my decision to follow this God no matter what the cost. ~ Daniel Walker

There's no blade as keen as surprise. ~ Brian Staveley