Robert Byrne Quotes

To err is human, to purr is feline.

Anybody who believes that the way to a man's heart is through his stomach flunked geography.

Winter is nature's way of saying, "Up yours.

The purpose of life is a life of purpose.

No one ever committed suicide while reading a good book, but many have tried while trying to write one.

It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers. —James Thurber (1894–1961)

Nobody ever committed suicide while reading a good book, but many have while trying to write one.

There are two kinds of people, those who finish what they start and so on.

Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life.

A promising young man should go into politics so that he can go on promising for the rest of his life.

The purpose of life is to have a life with purpose.

The purpose of life is a life of purpose

The purpose of life is life of a purpose.

Until you walk a mile in another man's moccasins you can't imagine the smell.

The Purpose of Life Is a Life of Purpose.” This is Stan’s answer to “If you could put a billboard anywhere and write anything on it, what would it say?” It is a quote from Robert Byrne.

His whole life changed because he changed from focusing on what he did not want, what he was afraid of, what he wanted to avoid, to focusing on what he did want. Robert’s

See the things that you want as already yours. Know that they will come to you at need. Then let them come. Don’t fret and worry about them. Don’t think about your lack of them. Think of them as yours, as belonging to you, as already in your possession.” Robert Collier (1885–1950) In

Minds are like flowers, they only open when the time is right.

Although circumstances of our lives have changed a great deal over the past few decades and look set to do so for some time to come, the basic tenets of good behaviour deserve to remain unaffected.

See the things that you want as already yours. Know that they will come to you at need. Then let them come. Don’t fret and worry about them. Don’t think about your lack of them. Think of them as yours, as belonging to you, as already in your possession.” Robert Collier (1885–1950)

rooms held photography and artwork by rock stars (David Byrne, Chris Stein, Alan Vega); photographs by Robert Mapplethorpe (of Patti Smith) and Nan Goldin; works by the venerable (William Burroughs and Ray Johnson); and one gallery devoted to twenty artists associated with

The deaths of Crawford and Byrne, Tommy’s ostracism, and Michael’s imprisonment were all part of the spreading ripples of misery from Martha’s tragic murder

Back at University College Dublin, Earner-Byrne reminds us that: ‘You have to understand the position of women in society. They had no say and no voice. They were constantly reminded that they had duties and responsibilities. They had no rights in a society that was profoundly influenced by faith.

writer Robert Heinlein put it shortly after the Moon landing, Apollo’s success was “the greatest event in all the history of the human race up to this time.” 203 The symbolic meaning of the program’s end shouldn’t be underestimated. Apollo was nothing less than an instance of the technological sublime. The Apollo 11 mission, and the technological mastery a successful Moon landing represented, elicited a cross-cultural spiritual reaction. Images from the mission were “surrounded with the aura of religion,” 204 from the silvery Saturn V rocket, which towered against the darkness of space before it lifted off and sent the first humans to another world, to the Apollo 8 crew’s reading from the Book of Genesis on Christmas Eve 1968, to Armstrong’s footprints on the lunar surface. In the 20th century, the experience of the technological sublime was a recurrent phenomenon in America—think of the interstate highway system, the Hoover Dam, the Manhattan skyline, the atomic bomb, the jet airplane, or the Golden Gate Bridge.