Top 25 James Kilpatrick Quotes
#1. Love is stealthy hiding under ribs.
Veda Hille
#2. Find out where the people want to go, then hustle yourself around in front of them.
James J. Kilpatrick
#3. Inviting others to help us with our work in the Church helps them feel needed and helps them feel the Spirit. When these feelings come, many people often then realize that something has been missing from their lives.
Clayton Christensen
#5. I love technology - yes, I have fallen in love with older cars, but I'm all for new technology.
Mario Andretti
#6. The chief difference between good writing and better writing may be measured by the number of imperceptible hesitations the reader experiences as he goes along.
James J. Kilpatrick
#7. A man nearly sixty is just as ready to suppose himself fascinating as a man of twenty.
Amelia Barr
#8. It wasn't the Supreme Court that expelled God from our public school classrooms. It was the textbook publishers.
James J. Kilpatrick
#9. Never allow yourself to dwell upon your weaknesses, deficiencies, or failures. Holding firmly the ideal and struggling vigorously to attain it will help you to realize it.
Orison Swett Marden
#10. When I was 18, 19, I was presented as the 'aw shucks' Nebraska kid who's coming up with a big serve, and then I flipped out a couple of times, and then I was ueber-brat, when I feel like there's parts of both, but I don't think I am either one, if that makes sense.
Andy Roddick
#11. Retirement is like a long vacation in Las Vegas. The goal is to enjoy it to the fullest, but not so fully that you run out of money.
Jonathan Clements
#12. If you would write emotionally, be first unemotional. If you would move your readers to tears, do not let them see you cry.
James J. Kilpatrick
#13. For the first few months, I was a comically inept parent. The first night home from the hospital, I held her bare body against my bare chest until a friend who was a doctor came by and asked what I was doing, and told me to put some clothes on that baby.
Nick Flynn
#14. It still beat with a trip and a hammer, for that is the way a heart must go. But, whereas before it had woven only dark things when it dwelled upon my cousin, now within the fabric of my heart there ran, for him and him alone, one single strand of pure, untarnishable gold.
Cameron Dokey
#15. Louis Kelso's formula sounds like Lydia Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. The whole theory sounds crazy. But, then, one may recall, they said all that of Copernicus too.
James J. Kilpatrick
#16. Good similes depend upon close observation. They depend upon brevity and wit ... They have to fit in context.
James J. Kilpatrick
#17. Worrying about inflation now is like worrying about the measles when you might get the plague.
Kenneth Rogoff
#18. Use familiar words-words that your readers will understand, and not words they will have to look up. No advice is more elementary, and no advice is more difficult to accept. When we feel an impulse to use a marvelously exotic word, let us lie down until the impulse goes away.
James J. Kilpatrick
#19. Fighting crime is simply a question of endurance; about which side can outlast the other.
Henning Mankell
#20. Writers must rely more on the feel of a sentence than on the dictates of a rule book.
James J. Kilpatrick
#22. Baseball ought never be hurried. It is the only unhurried institution we have left, which is one reason, I think, we love it.
James J. Kilpatrick
#23. I read a poem once that had a line in it about a white radiance that stains eternity.
James Lee Burke
#24. Infrastructure projects create a lot of demand for material, services and manpower. It is a chain reaction; if the infrastructure growth slows down, it will hit overall demand. The supply side has to keep increasing to sustain growth.
Jamshyd Godrej
#25. Bring me men to match my mountains: Bring me men to match my plains: Men with empires in their purpose and new eras in their brains.
Sam Walter Foss
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