Rick Julian Quotes

The agony of defeat is always greater than the pain of preparing for victory. ~ Rick Julian

there is more strength
in admitting vulnerability
than in faking invincibility ~ Rick Julian

There is no darkness light cannot conquer ~ Rick Julian

When science has killed god, science will be god. ~ Rick Julian

Love melts the hardest hearts
Enters between the cracks ~ Rick Julian

Using science to prove religion is like using a ruler to measure love. ~ Rick Julian

The most powerful person in the room is the one with the least to hide. ~ Rick Julian

Nothing is more memorable than truth beautifully told. ~ Rick Julian

The main reason I felt foolish and humiliated was because of - what had I called it to myself, only a few days previously? - 'the eternal hopefulness of the human heart'. And before that, 'the attraction of overcoming someone's contempt'. I don't think I normally suffer from vanity, but I'd clearly been more afflicted than I realised. ~ Julian Barnes

My point is that love is the most powerful motivator in the world. It spurs mortals to greatness. Their noblest, bravest acts are done for love. ~ Rick Riordan

I'm not sure how aware of the rest of the world I am. I live a rather sheltered existence. ~ Julian Clary

Star Wars was not a very big part but I enjoyed doing it and I get more fan mail for that than anything else I've ever done. It's quite extraordinary, it comes in every day, unbelievable. ~ Julian Glover

Ah, what good times the nature god and I had had in ancient days, dancing and cavorting in the wilderness! Pan had been a first-class cavorter. Then humans destroyed most of the wilderness, and Pan faded into nothing. You humans . You're why we gods can't have nice things. ~ Rick Riordan

That the Texas Legislature, that the Texas school boards, the Texas teachers, we collectively know best how to educate our children, rather than some bureaucrat in Washington. ~ Rick Perry

When I was commissioned with the purpose of helping to restore prophetic ministry to the Church for its last-day ministry, I was told that it would not be until the prophets and teachers learned to worship the Lord together as they did at Antioch that He would release true apostolic ministry in the Church again. ~ Rick Joyner

Then he threw me another essential tool of demigod heroes - duct tape. ~ Rick Riordan

General revenue - what taxpayers are willing to give government, what they think is fair to give government - is not going to grow at the same amount that the federal government basically forces us to spend on Medicaid. ~ Rick Scott

It takes balls to execute an innocent man. ~ Rick Perry

Grabbed his neck and screamed in terror (which was not very stealthy). ~ Rick Riordan

Anytime you use your God-given abilities to help others, you are fulfilling your purpose of life.
What matters is not the Duration of your life, but the Donation of it. ~ Rick Warren

I want my gun back," she said. "Why do you want your gun back?" "So I can shoot you." "Then you're definitely not getting your gun back. ~ Rick Yancey

Only low men, the lowest, tormented the weaker things in their control. ~ Rick Bragg

Congress had the opportunity to extend tax relief to working families without increasing the deficit. Instead, we were handed a bill that favors the wealthy and eliminates deductions that benefit the middle class. ~ Rick Larsen

There are these boutique writers out there who think if they are not writing their novels sitting at a bistro with their laptops, then they're not real writers. That's ridiculous. ~ Rick Bragg

You have to realize the truth of biologist Julian Huxley's idea that 'Life is just one damn relatedness after another' So you must have the models, and you must see the relatedness and the effects from the relatedness. ~ Charlie Munger

Let's stand up. Let's speak with pride about our morals and our values and redouble our effort to elect more conservative Republicans. ~ Rick Perry

Marriage is an institution that existed before governments existed. It's something that reflects nature and reflects God and God's will for us. And both from the standpoint of faith and reason it makes all the sense in the world. And it's beneficial for society. ~ Rick Santorum

All I heard was the blood rushing through my ears, and the distant rumble and crackle of the Lake of Fire. (And Khufu scratching himself and grunting, but that was nothing new.) ~ Rick Riordan

Only one store on the block looked open, its windows glaring with neon. The sign above the door said something like CRSTUY'S WATRE BDE ALPACE. "Crusty's Water Bed Palace?" Grover translated. It didn't sound like a place I'd ever go except in an emergency, but this definitely qualified. ~ Rick Riordan

She felt it again - that familiar shiver, as if a psychotic snowman had crept up behind her and was breathing down her neck. She turned, but no one was there. ~ Rick Riordan

It is not worrying, but rather trusting and abiding in the peace of God that will crush anything that Satan tries to do to us. If the Lord created the world out of chaos, He can easily deal with any problem that we have. ~ Rick Joyner

Usually I give demigods something simple like a shopping trip, singing a funny song, that sort of thing. After all those labors I had to complete for my evil cousin Eurystheus, well...I don't want to be that guy, you know? ~ Rick Riordan

There is violence in this supposedly tender heart of mine. ~ Julian Barnes

Polybotes found it difficult to say good-bye, since he no longer had a head. ~ Rick Riordan

Staying silent, staying away from him ... that was the hardest thing I've ever done. ~ Rick Riordan

In those days, we imagined ourselves as being kept in some kind of holding pen, waiting to be released into our lives. And when the moment came, our lives
and time itself
would speed up. How were we to know that our lives had in any case begun, that some advantage had already been gained, some damage already inflicted? Also, that our release would only be into a larger holding pen, whose boundaries would be at first undiscernible. ~ Julian Barnes

A godly man is never threatened by the gifts of a godly woman. ~ Rick Warren

Everything happens kind of the way it's supposed to happen, and we just watch it unfold. And you can't control it. Looking back, you can't say, 'I should've ... ' You didn't, and had you, the outcome would have been different. ~ Rick Rubin

World War II, you know, that was basically a fight between the sons of Zeus and Poseidon on one side, and the sons of Hades on the other. The winning side, Zeus and Poseidon, made Hades swear an oath with them: no more affairs with mortal women. They all swore on the River Styx.' Thunder boomed. ~ Rick Riordan