Jennifer Tress Quotes

#1. Because art, for all its adventuresomeness, is also capable of being the most recidivist of human activities, forever falling back in reaction to what was itself a reaction to something else.

Howard Jacobson

#2. Oh, dear God, you have given abundant blessings. I do not deserve them, and I cannot help but ask for more.

Lori Smith

#3. Wherever I go, bookstores are still the closest thing to a town square.

Gloria Steinem

#4. Though those different plans were, perhaps, first introduced by the private interests and prejudices of particular orders of men, without any regard to, or foresight of, their consequences upon the general welfare of the society;

Adam Smith

#5. Faith makes us, and not we it; and faith makes its own forms.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#6. A church that won't listen to the Word of God is a church already lost.

Robert Godfrey

#7. The point which I should first wish to understand is whether the pious or holy is beloved by the gods because it is holy, or holy because it is beloved of the gods.

Plato

#8. Everybody we meet has an influence on us and an impact - good or bad. And I think that's why we have to be careful with the way we handle people because what we're doing is making an impact.

Ernie Harwell

#9. I have found that most young people really want us to spell out a moral code. They may not accept it or believe it, but they want to hear it, clearly and without compromise.

Billy Graham

#10. The man deserved his fate, deny it who can; yes, but the fate did not deserve the man.

Plato

#11. Mothers can forgive anything! Tell me all, and be sure that I will never let you go, though the whole world should turn from you.

Louisa May Alcott

#12. But just because you're transparent about treating people poorly doesn't mean you're not an asshole for doing it.

Jennifer Tress

#13. I don't believe in the reality of painting, so I use different styles like clothes: it's a way to disguise myself.

Gerhard Richter

#14. If you're alive, you're creative.

Patti Digh

#15. Forgive me, Lord, for the smallness and selfishness of my mind. Amen.

Michel Faber

#16. It is very difficult to make one's way in this world without being wicked at one time or another, when the world's way is so wicked to begin with.

Gregory Maguire