Stanley Pines Quotes

Stay curious, stay weird, stay kind and don't let anyone ever tell you you aren't smart or brave or worthy enough. ~ Alex Hirsch

I don't know what's more embarrassing, these musicians and actors talking about politics in interviews or the media actually giving them credibility about it. It's absurd that a celebrity could speak out on the economy or politics with no more justification than a hit album or a movie. ~ Paul Stanley

Scientology is probably one of the most misunderstood things, and it's sad that it's so misunderstood. ~ Stanley Clarke

Nashville may be famed for its country music, but this may well be the capital of rock and roll music in the United States of America. ~ Paul Stanley

Green grass, green grandstands, green concession stalls, green paper cups, green folding chairs and visors for sale, green and white ropes, green-topped Georgia pines. If justice were poetic, Hubert Green would win it every year. ~ John Updike

Control the manner in which a man interprets his world, and you have gone a long way toward controlling his behavior. That is why ideology, an attempt to interpret the condition of man, is always a prominent feature of revolutions, wars, and other circumstances in which individuals are called upon to perform extraordinary action. ~ Stanley Milgram

The blood that poured from Christ's wounds bought your salvation. If you want to truly value what He did, think of Him hanging on that cross just for you. With that thought in your mind, consider how you should live. He gave Himself freely for you; are you giving yourself fully to Him? ~ Charles Stanley

The action carries a sense of incompleteness and frustration, but not of guilt. Victorious living does not mean perfect living in the sense of living without flaw, but it does mean adequate living, and that can be consistent with many mistakes. ~ E. Stanley Jones

As a sports fan, the Los Angeles Kings winning the Stanley Cup makes me feel very alive. ~ Five For Fighting

A vivid Imagination is awesome a Manic Imagination is a curse. ~ Stanley Victor Paskavich

When obsessives are given their object of desire, what do they feel? It was hard to say, really. In a sense their lives were ending; yet something else, some other life, had finally, finally begun ... . Filled with so many emotions at once, it was impossible not to be confused; it was an interference pattern, some feelings cancelled, others reinforced. ~ Kim Stanley Robinson

Saints Only Live in Heaven ~ Richard Stanley Cagan

I was also skeptical about what all the grunge bands would do on their second albums. There were a lot of great first albums, but what would they do once they were platinum acts instead of kids living in roach-infested garages? I mean, if they were so miserable, once they had money, they could all go see shrinks. ~ Paul Stanley

I could enjoy the simple life with a small living quarters, a scratched album of Johnny Cash and a Box of Twinkies ~ Stanley Victor Paskavich

The sky lovingly smiles on the earth and her children. ~ Henry Morton Stanley

You don't grow old. You get old by not growing. ~ E. Stanley Jones

As the cauldron bubbled she mused at how she missed prayer. It had been cathartic, and helped her to understand her own thoughts and feelings. She'd thought there was a god answering back too. Now she couldn't conceive that there existed any great spirits or gods beyond the veil of reality the world resided in. Even so, she longed to pray. Could she pray with nothing to pray to? Prayer meant hope, it was hope carefully crafted into specifics."

~Vexis Zaelwarsh - Low Priestess to Avanti
-Deathsworn Arc 4: Rise of the Archmage"
― Martyn Stanley ~ Martyn Stanley

Credibility is someone else's idea of what I should be doing. ~ Paul Stanley

It is of no help to us that there is an absolute truth of the matter of things because unfortunately, none of us are in a position to say definitively what that is - although we all think that we are. ~ Stanley Fish

And perhaps our awareness is the first step to our liberation. ~ Stanley Milgram

Obviously if you're Coppola going into 'Apocalypse Now' off the back of the two 'Godfathers,' you're in a much better position than coming off the back of something like 'Dust Devil,' which had scarcely been released, and was pretty much lying around in film cans in different places. ~ Richard Stanley

Don't be fair, be engaged. ~ Andy Stanley

The early Christians did not say, in dismay, 'Look what the world has come to,' but, in delight, 'Look what has come to the world! ~ E. Stanley Jones

I fear that much of the Christianity that surrounds us assumes our task is to save appearances by protecting God from Job-like anguish. But if God is the God of Jesus Christ, then God does not need our protection. What God demands is not protection, but truth. ~ Stanley Hauerwas

The leader who refuses to move until the fear is gone will never move. Consequently, he will never lead. ~ Andy Stanley

To get from where we don't want to be to where we do want to be requires two things: time and a change of direction. ~ Andy Stanley

To be the best next-generation leader you can be, you must enlist the help of others. Self-evaluation is helpful, but evaluation from someone else is essential. You need a leadership coach. Coaching enables a leader to go further faster. ~ Andy Stanley

You get what you give, and not only that, the giving is already the getting. So don't hold back. Don't look back or forward too much. Just be there where you are now. You're always only in the day you're in. ~ Kim Stanley Robinson

The dead know only one thing, it is better to be alive ~ Stanley Kubrick

Believing you can achieve a goal is vital to reaching a goal. ~ Charles Stanley

Fire in the fireplace is a wonderful thing. Fire on the carpet has the potential to burn down your house. Sex is like fire. In the right context, it is an awesome thing. But once it is outside the context it was designed for, sex can burn your life and relationships to the ground. ~ Andy Stanley

We are here to inscribe ourselves on the universe, and it is not inappropriate to remind ourselves of this when blank slates are given us. ~ Kim Stanley Robinson

The whole result of continued labour is not often consumed and enjoyed in a moment; the result generally lasts for a certain length of time. We must then conceive the capital as being progressively uninvested. ~ William Stanley Jevons

The essence in obedience consists in the fact that a person comes to view himself as an instrument for carrying out another person's wishes and he therefore no longer regards himself as responsible for his actions. ~ Stanley Milgram

Fear stifles our thinking and actions. It creates indecisiveness that results in stagnation. I have known talented people who procrastinate indefinitely rather than risk failure. Lost opportunities cause erosion of confidence, and the downward spiral begins. ~ Charles F. Stanley