Quotes By Famous Authors: [J]
Ultimately, we have to ask ourselves an essential spiritual and ethical question: Are we the kind of people who take everything for ourselves and leave ...
If the furnace is hot enough, anything will burn, even Big Macs.
What kind of leader sends congressmen out on a kamikaze mission in an election year and right before a recess? The kind of leader whose ...
Utterly still,all but invisible against the wall of the stable, the Dragon kept watch over his Saxon bride.
Never throw away squeezed lemon, but keep them for the day by the sink. Then you can use them to remove fish, onion or garlic ...
A man's enemies have no power to harm him, if he is true to himself and loyal to God.
She should have cut off her damn hair ages ago, but the long, dark locks were her one claim to beauty and she was vain ...
'That another one of your rules, Bit? No touching, no kissing, no flirting?' 'You forgot no calling me Bit.' 'Yeah, I don't like that one. ...
We know that when push comes to shove, [we can] drive ourselves to save our planet.
The difficulty with pragmatic arguments for a religion is that truths do not always "work", and beliefs that "work" are by no means always true.
Adrift in a sea of madness, the sextant is broken, but I can still see the stars.
Everything about everybody was very soon known by everybody else.
Investigations "eliminated solipsism but not the horror." The only difference between this new predicament and that of the Tractatus was that rather than being trapped ...
We get hurt worse by the people whom we care about. And they seldom mean to do it. That's what makes it so painful, kiddo.
Nevertheless we cherish all books, especially the unread ones, for who knows what secrets they might yield one day? - p.397, as by Larry Zagorski, ...
David Williamson's Pennsylvania militia brought Clark's dismaying vision to life in 1782 at Gnadenhutten when they herded nearly ninety Christianized Delaware Indians into two cabins ...
Survival of all or none.One raindrop raises the sea.Weapons are enemies even to their owners.Give more, take less.Others first, self last.Observe, listen, and learn.Do one ...
He had one of those smiles where his lips curled up on the outside when he really meant it. Dale always thought of it as ...
Fame infantilises and grants relative impunity. Those that seek it, out of an exaggerated need for admiration or attention, are often the least well equipped ...
The perfect marriage, like the perfect body, is mythical. I never met a woman who's said she has the perfect marriage or the perfect body...There's ...
The mainland Chinese tend to take a Chinese mainland point of view on controversial issues, and the Taiwanese take another the Taiwanese viewpoint.
Persuasion isn't about the people you disagree with. It's about the fulcrum; the persuadable audience.
The greatest barrier of success is the fear of failure.
We're not here to be fair. We're here to give red meat to our viewers.
Kids grow up in troubled homes thinking that they have the power to change their parents. Over time, they realize that they are mistaken.
When Louise worried bout something, it often turned up in her art.
It's [Joni Mitchell's "A Case of You"] been one of my favorite songs for my entire life.
I want to introduce my readers to people they may never have met, take them places they may never have visited, and present them with ...
Could we make it our own, there would be an eternally inexhaustible earth and a forever lasting peace.
For death and the disease that is its harbinger are the most brutal reminders of the radical finitude of human existence.
Before creation, God did just pure mathematics. Then He thought it would be a pleasant change to do some applied.
Always say no to drugs. It will drive the prices down.
Faith is a verb. An action, like love, that we do and live every day.
I'm grateful to my audience, that there are people who will buy a ticket and come and see us play and who essentially support me ...
When a country goes to war, it acts like a sociopath. It sends people like me out in the woods to do the most evil ...
To be alive on the planet is to surrender to being her partner. To be in service of the Earth is to be enraptured by ...
Just as demagogues lead their well-intentioned followers into tragedy, so the jungle inevitable reclaims it's own.
We Rode to war in a taxi-cab
Sometimes the question is complicated and the answers simple." - DR. SEUSS
I asked my grandmother if the light was God," Pam recalled. Rie laughed at the suggestion. "Oh no, Baby," said Rie. "God is not the ...
An ounce of emotion is equal to a ton of facts.
Herb Brooks, God rest his soul, wasn't coaching a Dream Team. He was coaching a team full of dreamers.
A pair of storefronts. Charlie Brody fell in love with and married a girl named Marion Cuomo, whose
Creation did not take millions of years. We can hardly be justified in trying to harmonize the days of creation with the extended periods of ...
This creature softened my heart of stone. She died and with her died my last warm feelings for humanity.
I've had people tell me to get over it. I politely tell them, 'How about if I chop off your finger and see if it ...
Where I live, there's a lot of canyons. We're climbing constantly - we're like mountain goats. I'm just trying to get better at that.
But now books and men had gone their separate ways. Who has the patience for a book? Only a book.
I don't attend church because I am a Meryl Streepist and we, her disciples, have not organized a place of worship yet. We just watch ...
The goal of [Into My Mind] is to uplift and inspire. We've all been through some sort of adversity in our lives, by sharing mines, ...