Top 12 Janeysjewels Quotes
#1. Sometimes I think that one reason we begin praying to a saint is that the saint has already been praying for us.
James Martin
#2. I entered Yale in the fall of 1951, and about November of that year, Bill Buckley published 'God and Man at Yale.'
M. Stanton Evans
#3. I felt a lot better; not being alone in being alone.
K.R. Albers
#4. Everything depends on the value we give to things. We are the ones who make morality and virtue. The cannibal who eats his neighbor is as innocent as the child who sucks his barley-sugar.
Gustave Flaubert
#5. It would be lovely if he and his wife would succeed in dying before the matter of inherited property was finally settled. Then the person giving the speech at the funeral would be able to say that until the very end they had been able to pursue what they loved: sailing. [p. 121]
Jenny Erpenbeck
#6. The trick to being smart is knowing when to play dumb.
V. Alexander
#7. Perhaps I'm hiding from myself. Perhaps I don't want to be what I'm supposed to be. Or perhaps I don't want to keep living the life I already started to live.
Orson Scott Card
#8. People make this kind of money. Lawyers are just good at figuring out how to siphon a piece of it their way.
Elizabeth Camden
#10. It's a good thing you write fiction. If you had to describe the real world, nobody would recognize it.
Peter Straub
#11. There is a reason the word belonging has a synonym for want at its center; it is the human condition.
Jodi Picoult
#12. Some very beautiful things get lost and forgotten. Just as I got lost.
Luise Rainer