"I think we too often make choices based on the safety of cynicism, and what we're lead to is a life not fully lived. Cynicism is fear, and it's worse than fear - it's active disengagement."

--

Source : "Ken Burns — Searching for the Soul of America". Interview with Mark Gerzon, www.lionsroar.com. June 13, 2016.

Ken Burns

#Fear Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Safety Quotes

“My God would never deliberately bring harm to anyone. But if it happens, if it simply happens due to wind and rain and weather and man's own mistakes, then God has promises to keep: LiÂ£e continuing. An even richer, fuller, brighter ongoing life to compensate.”
“And like a soprano shattering glass, Juliet heard something snap deep inside. It was the sound of her heart breaking.”
“I've made this conscious decision to tell people on the street when I think they're wearing something great. If more people did that, the world would be a better place.”
“We just wanna be the happy bums that we are. That's all.”

Source : CMJ New Music Monthly, April 1995.
“it is not tears but determination that makes pain bearable.”

Source : Stanley Weintraub, Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, John McDonald Burke, Carl Bernstein, Bob Woodward (1974). “Whistler”
“My philosophy is not a bean-counting, accounting 'look at this.' It is a philosophy that smaller government is better government, and government that is closer to the people is best of all.”
“I don't know what it is I'm doing. But it's not that. Despite all evidence to the contrary.”
“Frank was the BOSS and was not open to anything that was not from his head. There were no arguments about music because if you did, he would show you where the door was. Period.”

Source : Jimmy Carl Black Interview by Stephen Moore in Munich, Germany, www.stevemoorebooks.com. March 29, 2000.

You may also like:

David McCullough
Author
Eleanor Roosevelt
Former First Lady of the United States
Franklin D. Roosevelt
32nd U.S. President
Geoffrey Ward
Author
Peter Coyote
Actor
Shelby Foote
Historian
Siddhartha Mukherjee
Physician
Sullivan Ballou
Lawyer
Theodore Roosevelt
26th U.S. President