Quotes By Famous Authors: [J]
Some people have children. I have books. Much more interesting and they never ask me for money.
Give me a stock clerk with a goal, and I will give you a man who will make history. Give me a man without a ...
Neighbours complaining about someone's dog making an awful racket. You could hardly blame the poor beast, its owner had died in her bed at least ...
Tea is quiet and our thirst for tea is never far from our craving for beauty.
Life is like a giant hors d'oeuvre tray in that it is to be savored.
Like Garth Brooks said about it, you need to live where you could honestly choose, if you had to, on whether to give up one ...
Nobody knows everything that's hidden in the balance sheets of banks. In fact, they are completely impenetrable.
My eyes can scan the list of work in progress, and I know immediately what's happening in the current month. I even use custom icons ...
As every runner knows, running is about more than just putting one foot in front of the other; it is about our lifestyle and who ...
Everything becomes magnified at night. Sounds travel in a different way, it's dark, and everything seems far more spooky.
That's called terror. Its confusion and a little paranoia and a nice big dose of panic.
It's hard to give a dramatic shape to even the most dramatic life ... you are forced not just into selectivity, but into alteration, distortion ...
As Director of the FBI, I am sworn to ensure that my special agents have what they need to protect themselves and the citizens of ...
Desperate prayers may be an indication of spiritual health rather than a sign of spiritual deficiency.
I have tried to tell him in a dozen different ways that I am only six inches tall. I've told him I am as tall ...
This lie of political correctness is bringing this country down. You just want to break through it all.
I don't write my standup on paper or anything; but I just organically do it on stage, have an idea, chat it up a little ...
You can speak truth to power, ... but when you speak truth to weakness, weakness gets mad and queasy. It accuses you of its own ...
He stuck out like a cabbage in a rose garden
Everything is calm, happier, and less stressed. As soon as you drive into the park, it's like you've entered an oasis.
Social Security faces financial problems down the road because of demographics.
I watched them taxi off across the grass and take off.
You, but how do you feel about me?" he wondered.
Let people move themselves. Don't insist on doing it for them.
At the close of the day when the hamlet is still, and mortals the sweets of forgetfulness prove, when naught but the torrent is heard ...
I can defeat you physically with or without a reason. But I can only defeat your mind with a reason. - JIM LAU
Remember all frustration is based on unmet expectations. If we did not expect anything we would not be frustrated.
Here I found those who had set out before me, both by sea and land, except those who have died.
Eli joined Bobby in laughter. "Oh, Niki, we know you can't help it. But you're like a bull that goes into a china shop, blows ...
Maybe the biggest problem with loneliness is that we walk around thinking we're the only ones suffering from it.
T he United States is the first, and perhaps only, country in the world in which every Buddhist sect is represented. Although
Would ye both eat your cake and have your cake?
My feet took an involuntary step backward as I suddenly envisioned a world where I wasn't a hot tempered smartass. It was a pretty world.
She wasn't ready for this kind of distraction he caused her. It was bad enough she found him attractive, but having a attractive man in ...
It was one of those ideas that doesn't sound stupid until someone says it out loud.
God willeth to be seen and to be sought: to be abided and to be trusted.
The heart of the novel. Holden in New York where he has something close to a nervous breakdown. Caulfield narrates the story to us
God's nothing more than a twelve-year-old kid with an ant farm. He's always watching, but He's never gonna do anything.
Red Riding Hood screamed, not out of alarm at the wolf's apparent tendency toward cross-dressing, but because of his willful invasion of her personal space.
Faith is not wanting to know what is true.
I look at victory as milestones on a very long highway.
We are not an isolated insulated community anymore
I have a feeling I may have been born a century and a half too late, two classes too low, and in the wrong country...
Every time someone opens a book and begins to read, a synergy between the reader and the writer occurs across time and space.
You're like an idiot...trapped in an idiot's body!"Hey it was funny at the time and level of intoxication.
Exactly," He tucked a lock of hair behind my ear. "Sometimes we help ourselves, and sometimes we get help from ghosts in the woods and ...
I always had to have a job in the summer when I was at school. It was about teaching me, and my brother and sisters, ...
If we could tell a film, then why make a film?
While traditionalism can thwart the planners and molders of industry, education, and society in general, fatalism can so stultify a people that passive resignation becomes ...
For years, a motto often repeated in the Canadian Armed Forces was "Improvise. Adapt. Overcome." This was a fancy way of saying we should make ...