Quotes By Famous Authors: [J]
We don't give federal grants to tobacco companies to teach students 'low-risk' forms of smoking on the grounds that 'kids are going to smoke anyway.' ...
I'm sick of having a broken heart, Dylan." I said softly. He sighed, "Some things are worth hurting for.
Knowledge of ourselves teaches us whence we come, where we are and whither we are going. We come from God and we are in exile; ...
Gestalt means whole, and so are you.
Downsizing itself is an inevitable part of any creatively destructive economy.
I have brightness in my soul, which strains toward Heaven. I am like a bird!
Let me first state that I believe that marriage is a sacred union between one man and one woman.
You are what you teach, and you teach what you are.
Little suprises are nice, big suprises are better
They weren't in a coffee shop, trading beliefs and ideas over scones. They were in a Jeep that had been shot up, hiding from people ...
A deep and powerful love is never quiet, never dormant but loud and fierce. ~ J.M. Walker
There's no way that if you get participation out of a person can they say you didn't rock it.
Man must earn his life. Man must earn the right to walk through this world.
The bar exam's a mother. I mean, for me it was. I failed it the first two times, but I guess it's like losing your ...
Utopians are heedless of methods. To render the human species happy, they are prepared to subject it to murder, torture, lethal injection, incineration, deportation, sterilization, ...
I'm a lover of lists and five-year plans and Excel spreadsheets. Any way that I can have any control over the direction my life is ...
You can throw the whole weight of your anxieties upon him, for you are his personal concern.
This book would not have been made without the tireless mentoring and rare friendship of Christian Bok, Steven Collis and Nicole Markotic.
She'd never stood a chance. She was a good girl, raised on the bible and charm school. She was destined to long for the thrill ...
His words are not the uncompromising utterances of politicians or the sanctimonious banalities that try to appease everyone's good conscience. Rather,
I knew I was always going to be around music. And I actually thought I would be dancing, not a vocal major.
Marx did not recognize that our desire to connect with a transcendent power runs even deeper than our drive for economic satisfaction. Each of us ...
Since the one thing we can say about fundamental matter is, that it is vibrating. And since all vibrations are theoretically sound, then it is ...
The indescribable sense of yearning emanated from him. He wanted her as much as she did him. His longing for her filled her up, choking ...
I don't believe a person can truly do "smiles" unless they are willing to risk doing "tears". You have to be able to risk to ...
God isn't looking for perfect people. He is looking to perfect people.
If you want to look young and thin, hang around old fat people.
Say what you mean, be who you are, and hope for the best.
Dreams do come true...never stop believing.
There was a sense of permanence about Egypt; the past was never far from the present.
It's never too late to step off a path and look for a different route.
One of the problems in the biotech world is the lack of women in leadership roles, and I'd like to see that change by walking ...
You know what a champion is? A champion is someone who's ready when the gong rings - not just before, not just after - but ...
Can you believe this crap ?
As long as man loves a phantom in the sky more than he loves his fellow man, there will never be peace upon this earth; ...
We live in the world we made up.
We hated the cruise. Our cabin was deep in the bowels of the ship, the nautical equivalent of nosebleed seats.
Most of them even thought of offering him the honour he had declined, for he who in such circumstances refuses a crown, always appears to ...
Dayum! You know Charley's pissed when the f-bomb is flying out her mouth like it's her job to drop them.
We wouldn't pay to rent and watch the same painful movie two hundred fifty times, but somehow we let our mind replay a bad memory ...
We are eternally Spiritual Beings, even in human form.
I still want to believe that somewhere, somehow, there is a happy ending for every story. It all depends on how thoroughly you look for ...
Holiness makes sin useless because it is truthful, just, faithful, righteous, godly, loving, meek, and enduring.
What I'm not in the habit of doing, and I'm not going to do, is go around cap in hand pleading with players to play ...
Years ago, the writers were telling me that I'd make the Hall of Fame, so I kind of prepared a speech. But somewhere along in ...
You never know what you can do," he says, "until you get it done.
When you win you eat better, sleep better and your beer tastes better. And your wife looks like Gina Lollobrigida.
...Your love is evident,' she says. 'But, darling, sometimes the ballet does not love us back.
I don't want to take all the time. I just want to do what you wrote and let me go from there. I don't want ...
The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.