Quotes By Famous Authors: [J]
Childhood is so important. Without a loving one, you're vulnerable throughout your life. We're all the things our parents are - the good and the ...
Dorothea sniffed and looked around the room, her distaste clear. "Try to be polite, Mother," Marjorie said. "I am always polite." "Then try to be ...
Such are the foolish dreams of idealistic children who believe that anything can possibly get better over time.
Likewise, most of the Middle Eastern, many African nations and many Asian nations, would be poor relocation choices due to current significant Muslim domination of ...
A common reaction to extreme events is to say they couldn't have been predicted
Don't let the cynic in you drown out the dreamer.
You know, painting has given me a lot of freedom, because for some reason, I've been able to paint things, organize things in a way ...
I was born in 1961. Now I think the 16 years that elapsed between 1961 and the end of the wars is nothing. To a ...
Everyone declares that love is irrational, and yet everytime this statement is proven correct, they profess amazement. They seem to assume that love will make ...
You invite a time in the near future when you are no longer building your life on the unknown influences of your childhood sexual abuse.
People are taking a bottle of wine to a dinner party or for a gift, they'll often settle on Chardonnay.
The average investor does significantly worse than a simple index ... It's literally because of the way our brains are wired.
If you need a gun to do it with, you aren't doing it right." Sheriff Bud Smith.
There is no precedent in any modern White House for what is going on in this one: a complete lack of a policy apparatus. What ...
I need physics more than friends.
We inhabit a three-body cosmos. Sophia is essentially the matriarch of a single-parent family - a single-planet goddess, if you will. But she relies on ...
We're still getting a lot of the popular conception that's grounded in the one-way, causal image of the genome. The idea that the future of ...
If anything is due to a corporation, it is not due to the individual members thereof, nor do the members individually owe what the corporation ...
Don't try to lawyer me out of common sense.
If it isn't broken don't try to fix it
Architects and engineers are among the most fortunate of men since they build their own monuments with public consent, public approval and often public money.
To know a person in his home is not to know him at all: to meet him on a country road with only his baggage ...
Nostalgia is a powerful drug to which intelligent and sensitive people resort when they are bored or frightened by the times they are living in; ...
The moment he'd wrapped his fingers around her wrist, she'd toed the edge of a cliff. The second his fangs had pierced her flesh she'd ...
Perhaps that wasn't the brightest parenting decision that I've made in the last ten years." -- (From TRADING MANNY, on letting my 7-year old son ...
Not only were people to be liberated from socio-political and economic oppression, but from theological oppression as well.
The oceans that surround the world produce 185 billion tons of CO2 per annum. Man per annum only produces six billion tons, so what could ...
She stopped to think. "Twice. It happened so quick. Rob was just trying to warn Dean, but he accidentally hit him." "What did you do?" ...
Who didn't grow up through the '90s watching 'Friends?'
Politics, as any observer of the modern world knows, is the enemy of economics, everywhere and always.
Remember that the policies are only that:policies - not rules that must be followed. Theycan, and should, be broken from time to time,but the decision ...
I am the first African-American chairman of any major conservation organization in history. That's a big step.
This was dangerous talk - in these enlightened times, a wise woman would never be too clever. The accusation of witchcraft had rid many men ...
True Wealth is being able to do what I want, when I want. If I can do that, I am wealthy.
'Authoring tools' are terrible; there is almost no software that can create closed captions for media players. And of course there is no training. TV ...
The supernatural is not as it claims, for it is inherently unnatural; it seeks to separate us from our natural world.
Having constant supporters and people who are always there and always giving back and knowing that they're loving what you're doing is always awesome to ...
Please excuse my little sister. She's got quite an imagination.Annie, you're just jealous because I come up with great stories and you're so boring.
You want science and studies? Fuck you. I've got scars and blood and vomit.
You will need to know when to be assertive and wise enough to know when to exercise patience
The physical healed quickly, but those of the spirit ran deep, and in most cases, could only be concealed. Wounds of the spirit may scab ...
DEDICATION For Halle. The coolest Mudblood I know. Consider this your Hogwarts letter.
Your relatives, and mine too, are all dead.
You're the best time I've ever had.
Hope is a flicker, a candle flame kept burning by the simple act of breathing.
I am essence of Rose Solitude my cheeks are laced with cognac my hips sealed with five satin nails I carry dreams and romance of ...
All is good. Don't worry, the pain will help you. You'll get into some trouble, but it will work out in the end.
I sometimes get short-tempered in a public situation because I think, Oh God, I can't go back over that again. I can't put that into ...
Hell works better when it's a lot more subtle.
The Disciplined Leader is someone who focuses on the 20 percent of activities that drive 80 percent of results.