Myth Quotes - page 16

I think objectivity is like this strange myth that people think you're supposed to achieve, but actually, the dirty little secret is that it's not attainable any more than pure justice is attainable by the courts. (Sebastian Junger)
I don't really believe in the myth of being poor but happy. At the poorest times in my life, I wasn't happy. I was just hungry. View quote
Ali Liebegott
If you're going to be a myth or want to be a myth, you'd better die young. View quote
Alma Guillermoprieto
A myth is a lie that conceals or reveals a truth. But if it reveals even a strand of history or truth, that's what gets my adrenaline going. View quote
Ashwin Sanghi
I believe that patterns tend to repeat themselves and there are connections between the past and the present. There is the old proverb that reads, 'You can't know where you're going if you don't know where you've been'. For me, history is like that. When you take history and combine it with myth, then you get mystery. View quote
Ashwin Sanghi
Accountants, machinists, medical technicians, even software writers that write the software for 'machines' are being displaced without upscaled replacement jobs. Retrain, rehire into higher paying and value-added jobs? That may be the political myth of the modern era. There aren't enough of those jobs. View quote
Bill Gross
The cliches are all true! My son Max has just turned two, and he's literally turned into this driven young man overnight! The terrible twos are not a myth, but he's such a laugh to be around. View quote
Burn Gorman
I don't believe in the transformation myth, where if you have more success, life changes for you. View quote
Ben Mendelsohn
It is the doctrine of the oligarchy that there is nothing that we hold in common, that the commonwealth is a myth, that it is even a sign of softheadedness and weakness. The oligarchical power feeds on the sense that we are all individuals, struggling on our own, and ennobled by the effort. View quote
Charlie Pierce
We have this myth that if you work hard, you can accomplish anything. It's not a very American thing to say, but I don't think that's true. It's true for a lot of people, but you need other things to succeed. You need luck, you need opportunity, and you need the life skills to recognize what an opportunity is. View quote
David Lindsay-Abaire
The whole of government needs to contribute to the shared goal of restructuring the British economy. But that means taking on the myth that the Treasury either knows best or can run it all. It just doesn't. (David Miliband)
The Roswell incident, for instance, had over three hundred witnesses - some describing the bodies, some the craft, some the military procedures. Were they all perpetuating their own lives in a myth? View quote
Dwight Schultz
The myth of the liberal media empowers conservatives to control debate in the United States to the point where liberals cannot even hope for a fair shake anymore. View quote
Eric Alterman
Some batters, and good ones too, scoff at the whole theory of place hitting, calling it a myth. They are wrong, however. View quote
Edd Roush
There is a segment of the American population that has been excluded from the national myth, and that should be redressed. View quote
Edward Zwick
It is a myth to think that sometimes creative disagreement doesn't necessarily produce a better result. View quote
Gavin Hood
There's this myth that has been exacerbated by others that Starbucks means a $4 cup of coffee, which is not true. View quote
Howard Schultz
'Cold Case Files' and similar shows do bang up business, which points to a certain thirst for details in the viewership, but it seems like all the news chat shows continue to force the myth that Americans can't stand detail and have no interest in an idea that can't fit on a bumper sticker. View quote
Hal Sparks
A myth is a religion in which no one any longer believes. View quote
James Kern Feibleman
I was warned not to do it. Actors who play Jesus are supposed to have a hard time getting other roles to follow, but I felt this was a myth. After all, how can you be typecast as Christ? View quote
Jeffrey Hunter
The video for 'Whatever' is kind of a documentary in a way. It's showing that love can last. Not just in your early 20s or your late 30s, but in your 50s, 60s and 70s. There's an awful myth out there that when you get married, love and lovemaking fade. It's not true. (Jill Scott)
For me, there was no great myth around the movies when I was a young child. My father was very simple about the whole thing. He did not consider cinema an art. Cinema was entertainment. Literature and music were art. View quote
Jacques Audiard
Perhaps the biggest myth about cynicism is that it deepens with age. I think what really happens is that experience painfully rips away layers of scales from our eyes, and so we do indeed become more cynical about many of the things we naively accepted when younger. View quote
Julian Baggini
Bands that I've loved over the years are the ones that have a certain myth around them. View quote
Karen O
To be an American (unlike being English or French or whatever) is precisely to imagine a destiny rather than to inherit one since we have always been, insofar as we are Americans at all, inhabitants of myth rather than history. View quote
Leslie Fiedler