Quotes By Famous Authors: [J]
Until he was six, John would bathe with his son in the spa, thinking it would purify his mind and soul and make him whole. ...
Today, people are inclined to think that the sincerity and fervency of one's beliefs are more important than the content. As long as we believe ...
He slipped a dollar bill into a machine for a plastic soda bottle. Prices and plastic bottles with cute names signaled he was in the ...
We both hated ourselves and loved each other.
Only Dostoevsky can be Dostoevskian at such long, tumultuous stretches;look what intensity did to poor Van Gogh!
Meeting your adoptive baby is like being set up on a blind date with someone you will have to spend the next eighteen years with. ...
During my tenure at the Endowment, I often found that those who did us the most damage did so under the justification of helping us ...
Reading makes you smarter. It really does.
In my humdrum life, the daily battle hasn't been good vs. evil. It's hardly so epic. Most days, my real battle is doing good vs. ...
Resilience isn't cultivated by avoiding stress, you see, but by learning how to tame and master it.
People admire my confidence, but they never see me when I'm alone. That's when I'm the most raw because I'm not trying to sell myself ...
Sometimes the best journeys aren't necessarily from east to west, or from ground to summit, but from heart to head. Between them we find our ...
The abundance, the solidity, and the splendor of the results already achieved by science are well fitted to inspire us with a cheerful confidence in ...
All you really have to do is change your perception to change your life.
Realizing the emptiness of a "spirituality" and of a "spiritual" nurture that remains in the clouds need not bring us or our children to a ...
2013 will be the year I read more! and more!
What's it say about a person when they know they have a problem but never do anything to fix it?" Eric smiled. "That they're human.
The difference between being nice and being a doormat depends on whether you're choosing the time of your generosity or someone else is.
The psychopath [or sociopath] makes a mockery not only of the truth but also of all authority and institutions. - Arnold Buss, M.D." Psychopathology
The process by which we let go of our hopes to make a difference for God and settle for making a living is subtle and ...
You surround yourself with amazing, grade-A talent, and you're going to have to lift your game. You kind of thrive just by being around such ...
Conlan could not wrench his gaze away as the legionaries in the distance lost cohesion and closed in on each other, their formation compromised no ...
By doing good with his money, a man, as it were, stamps the image of God upon it, and makes it pass current for the ...
If you search for imperfections, you'll find them
The forms of manners which should be scrupulously observed are, invariably, those which contribute to the comfort, or dignity of others.
The music player.
When I started painting 17 years ago, I never imagined that anyone would look at my work or buy my pieces. But now I do ...
The barking hounds ran in and out of the creek, making slapping waves, turning the Georgia earth to mud under the longleaf pines. With the ...
They moaned in unison as she slowed her movements. Sitting in Ryan's lap, his hands on her waist, she slowly opened her eyes."That was amazing." ...
Worse than losing the potential of Nick as a boyfriend is losing the real Nick as my best friend.
Search engines generally treat personal names as search terms like any others: Data is data.
Reason must sit at the knee of instinct and learn reverence for the miraculous instinctual capacity for creation.
When God allows something to be taken from you, He replaces it with something better.
In East Asia generally, the notion of a Supreme Being, so essential to Western religions, is replaced by that of a Supreme State of Being, ...
I love Manchester. I always have, ever since I was a kid, and I go back as much as I can. Manchester's my spiritual home. ...
She was exaggerating the severity of her condition in order to crave sympathy. Yet
When you absolutely don't know what to do anymore, it is time to panic
We'll never know. And maybe that's the best. It's a bad tale that has all the answers. -Molly
She shuffled with her head bowed, her dark eyes drifting to avoid contact, and she screamed in bed at night. (Dark City Lights)
Does anyone in the UFC actually follow the rules?
The illusion of free will, of freedom, is a useful tool you know. Let people think they are free and present them with a danger ...
Grades are almost completely relative, in effect ranking students relative to others in their class. Thus extra achievement by one student not only raises his ...
If you eat dead food, you are going to feel dead. If you eat live food, you are going to feel alive.
Change is inscribed in noise faster than it transforms society.
Want of punctuality is a want of virtue.
It is always correct to recommend that someone seek medical advice, in a truly caring way of course, if you feel that their condition is ...
It is not the Government, the members of Parliament to whom the ultimate decision belongs, it is up to you to go forward sure of ...
Why is it that any time government takes over something for a few years, its assumed that people are too incompetent to do it for ...
I tended bar and fucked hot tourists, it's what I did.
Bad women celebrate themselves..