Category: Quotes

Neil Peart (1952-2020) was a Canadian musician, best known as the drummer and primary lyricist for the progressive rock band Rush. Born in Hamilton, Ontario, Peart showed an early interest in music and began drumming at a young age. He joined Rush in 1974, replacing their original drummer, and quickly became an integral part of the band’s sound and success.

Peart was known for his technical proficiency and innovative drumming style, incorporating elements of jazz, rock, and world music into his playing. He was also the primary lyricist for Rush, writing thoughtful and often philosophical lyrics that explored themes such as science fiction, individualism, and the human condition.

Throughout his career, Peart won numerous awards and accolades for his drumming and songwriting, including induction into the Modern Drummer Hall of Fame in 1983 and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Rush in 2013. He was also an author, publishing several books about his travels and personal experiences, including the memoirs “Ghost Rider: Travels on the Healing Road” and “Far and Wide: Bring That Horizon to Me!”

Sadly, Peart passed away on January 7, 2020, after a battle with brain cancer. He was widely mourned by fans and fellow musicians alike, who recognized his immense contributions to the world of music and his legacy as one of the greatest drummers of all time.

Top 10 most inspiring quotes by Neil Peart

• You can surrender without a prayer, but never really pray without surrender. You can fight without ever winning, but never ever win without a fight.
• Could hell be a place where there is no self-respect? A place where people have no pride in their own existence or behavior, and thus would have none for anyone or anything else?
• Each of us A cell of awareness Imperfect and incomplete Genetic blends with uncertain ends on a fortune hunt that’s far too fleet.
• Half the world hates What half the world does every day Half the world waits While half gets on with it anyway.
• You can’t get wise with sleep still in your eyes no matter what your dream might be.
• From first to last, the peak is never passed. Something always fires the light that gets in your eyes.
• Racetracks are designed to make it as difficult as possible to get around that corner fast. And some ramps, by necessity, are that way, too.
• Playing a three-hour Rush show is like running a marathon while solving equations.
• The government’s only functions are to protect the rights of the individual; therefore, you need a police force and an army.
• Now I call myself a bleeding-heart libertarian. Because I do believe in the principles of Libertarianism as an ideal – because I’m an idealist.

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10 inspiring quotes by neil gaiman

• Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.
• Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn’t it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up.
• Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.
• I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes…you’re Doing Something.
• People think dreams aren’t real just because they aren’t made of matter, of particles. Dreams are real. But they are made of viewpoints, of images, of memories and puns and lost hopes.
• What I say is, a town isn’t a town without a bookstore. It may call itself a town, but unless it’s got a bookstore, it knows it’s not foolin’ a soul.
• Stories may well be lies, but they are good lies that say true things, and which can sometimes pay the rent.
• There are so many fragile things, after all. People break so easily, and so do dreams and hearts.
• She says nothing at all, but simply stares upward into the dark sky and watches, with sad eyes, the slow dance of the infinite stars.
• Most books on witchcraft will tell you that witches work naked. This is because most books on witchcraft were written by men.

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10 life-changing neil degrasse tyson quotes

• For me, I am driven by two main philosophies: know more today about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You’d be surprised how far that gets you.
• We are all connected; To each other, biologically. To the earth, chemically. To the rest of the universe atomically.
• We spend the first year of a child’s life teaching it to walk and talk and the rest of its life to shut up and sit down. There’s something wrong there.
• Curious that we spend more time congratulating people who have succeeded than encouraging people who have not.
• The more I learn about the universe, the less convinced I am that there’s any sort of benevolent force that has anything to do with it, at all.
• My view is that if your philosophy is not unsettled daily then you are blind to all the universe has to offer.
• When scientifically investigating the natural world, the only thing worse than a blind believer is a seeing denier.
• Ignorance is a virus. Once it starts spreading, it can only be cured by reason. For the sake of humanity, we must be that cure.
• Down there between our legs, it’s like an entertainment complex in the middle of a sewage system. Who designed that?
• Dinosaurs are extinct today because they lacked opposable thumbs and the brainpower to build a space program.

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10 inspiring quotes by neil armstrong

• I believe that every human has a finite amount of heartbeats. I don’t intend to waste any of mine running around doing exercises.
• It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn’t feel like a giant. I felt very, very small.
• I believe every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don’t intend to waste any of mine.
• I think we’re going to the moon because it’s in the nature of the human being to face challenges. It’s by the nature of his deep inner soul… we’re required to do these things just as salmon swim upstream.
• The important achievement of Apollo was demonstrating that humanity is not forever chained to this planet and our visions go rather further than that and our opportunities are unlimited.
• I guess we all like to be recognized not for one piece of fireworks, but for the ledger of our daily work.
• I thought the attractions of being an astronaut were actually, not so much the Moon, but flying in a completely new medium.
• Gliders, sail planes, they’re wonderful flying machines. It’s the closest you can come to being a bird.
• It’s a brilliant surface in that sunlight. The horizon seems quite close to you because the curvature is so much more pronounced than here on earth. It’s an interesting place to be. I recommend it.
• In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand.

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10 insightful quotes by owen wilson

• I think the way it works is that when you’re casting a movie, you usually want to work with people that you believe in.
• The first thing I remember is Alexander Calder – our school took us on a field trip to go see the Calder mobiles, and that always stuck in my memory.
• I love Francis Bacon. I just saw a great Jackson Pollock exhibit at the Dallas Museum when I was home for Thanksgiving.
• It isn’t so much that I choose the roles – I mean, I guess there’s a little bit of a selection process – but it’s more just what people offer you.
• Because it’s me playing the character, trying to find a way to make it believable and entertaining and interesting.
• I think of Terrence Malick’s movie Days of Heaven – one of Richard Gere’s first movies – you can push pause on almost any image in the movie and it looks like a painting.
• If a movie goes south, it might not capsize me the way it used to. But I still have a terrible fear of failure. I’m a huge worrier.
• There’s what is on screen and then for us, it’s if you get along with the people and enjoy showing up at work.
• I haven’t seen a lot of screwball comedies, and I don’t think of myself as loving the genre. To me it sounds like, okay, you’re going to be in a lot of crazy situations that are unbelievable.
• I respectfully ask that the media allow me to receive care and heal in private during this difficult time.

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10 ovid quotes that give insight into life

• Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish.
• Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence.
• Perfer et obdura, dolor hic tibi proderit olim. (Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you.)
• I grabbed a pile of dust, and holding it up, foolishly asked for as many birthdays as the grains of dust, I forgot to ask that they be years of youth.
• Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.” “Be patient and tough; one day this pain will be useful to you.
• I am the poet of the poor, because I was poor when I loved; since I could not give gifts, I gave words.
• Give me the waters of Lethe that numb the heart, if they exist, I will still not have the power to forget you.
• We are ever striving after what is forbidden, and coveting what is denied us.
• I am dragged along by a strange new force. Desire and reason are pulling in different directions. I see the right way and approve it, but follow the wrong.
• A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death by a frown on the right man’s brow.

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10 famous quotes by otto von bismarck

• Only a fool learns from his own mistakes. The wise man learns from the mistakes of others.
• Fools learn from experience. I prefer to learn from the experience of others.
• People never lie so much as before an election, during a war, or after a hunt.
• Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.
• Fools say that they learn by experience. I prefer to profit by others experience.
• Politics are not a science based on logic; they are the capacity of always choosing at each instant, in constantly changing situations, the least harmful, the most useful.
• Faust complained about having two souls in his breast, but I harbor a whole crowd of them and they quarrel. It is like being in a republic.
• We live in a wondrous time, in which the strong is weak because of his scruples and the weak grows strong because of his audacity.
• The statesman’s task is to hear God’s footsteps marching through history, and to try and catch on to His coattails as He marches past.
• The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but by iron and blood.

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10 thought-provoking oscar levant quotes

• The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.
• I was once thrown out of a mental hospital for depressing the other patients.
• What the world needs is more geniuses with humility, there are so few of us left.
• Happiness isn’t something you experience, it’s something you remember.
• In some situations I was difficult, in odd moments impossible, in rare moments loathsome, but at my best unapproachably great.
• I’ve changed, I’m nice to people and I’m not so self-centered. What I’m trying to do now is think of the other person. The only trouble is, I’ve found that the other person thinks only of himself.
• It’d be nice to please everyone but I thought it would be more interesting to have a point of view.
• There are two sides to every question: my side and the wrong side.
• First I brush my teeth and then I sharpen my tongue.
• I’m controversial. My friends either dislike me or hate me.

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10 top oscar de la hoya quotes

• You get to be famous or have some notoriety and there are so many people who want a piece of you.
• There is always space for improvement, no matter how long you’ve been in the business.
• I wouldn’t recommend [boxing] to any child of mine. I would rather he played golf or something.
• I think my body went through a lot, went through the wringer. In terms of being inside the ring, getting hit, but also outside the ring, living a crazy life.
• I think about making a comeback every single day. I went running, I went training, did that for a few days. But my body couldn’t handle it.
• Every time I work out in the gym, every time I train, I know I’m going to do well. But I like surprising the fans, the critics, the people who doubt me.
• Ever since I’ve been boxing, it’s always been the case that when I go inside the ring a switch goes off and my attitude changes totally from the person I am outside it. I really can’t explain why or how.
• Ever since I met [my wife], my life has been different. I have what I want. I have my Jewel in Millie.
• After doing an honest evaluation of myself, I recognize that there are certain issues that I need to work on. Like everyone, I have my flaws, and I do not want to be one of those people that is afraid to admit and address those flaws.
• As a professional athlete and someone who has spent almost his entire life in boxing, not a day goes by when I don’t think about coming back, but I am retired, and after speaking to my family and following a great deal of introspection, I have decided to stay retired.

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10 notable quotes by orson scott card

• Perhaps it’s impossible to wear an identity without becoming what you pretend to be.
• If you try and lose then it isn’t your fault. But if you don’t try and we lose, then it’s all your fault.
• Ethan Wyeth: I hope you’re thirsty.” Gideon Wyeth: “Why?” Ethan: “Cause your dumb and ugly, but I can do something about thirsty.
• It’s called civilization. Women invented it, and every time you men blow it all to bits, we just invent it again.
• This is how humans are: We question all our beliefs, except for the ones that we really believe in, and those we never think to question.
• I think it’s impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves.
• Because never in my entire childhood did I feel like a child. I felt like a person all along―the same person that I am today.
• When you really know somebody you can’t hate them. Or maybe it’s just that you can’t really know them until you stop hating them.
• Humanity does not ask us to be happy. It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf.
• I also remembered that you were beautiful.” “Memory does play tricks on us.” “No. Your face is the same, but I don’t remember what beautiful means anymore.

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