Jillson Quotes

#1. I believe women are too hard on themselves. I believe that when you love someone, she becomes beautiful to you. I believe the eyes see everything through the heart. Nothing in the world feels as good as resting them on someone you love.

Katherine Center

#2. It's hard for the White House to regain momentum if the Congress is in disarray. It ties up the Republicans in Congress and limits their ability to execute any White House agenda.

Calvin Jillson

#3. cross-national studies show that the U.S. poverty rate, which stands persistently above 12 percent, is not only the highest poverty rate of any advanced industrial nation, but is more than twice the average for that group.
Pursuing the American Dream, 9, 276

Calvin C. Jillson

#4. If those people survive, others will be emboldened. If they don't, others will be intimidated.

Calvin Jillson

#5. You can only hold on to something for so long and enjoy it just by yourself, what's the point? It's very selfish. For better or for worse, I feel like the point of all of this is to make someone feel something.

Frank Iero

#6. There was room for a Democrat to break with the interest groups and to vote for Roberts. (Hillary Clinton) could have because she has credentials of thirty-years standing.

Calvin Jillson

#7. Only if government fulfilled its responsibility by fostering a robust economy was it ressonable to hold individuals responsible for working hard and striving to do their best.
Pursuing the American Dream, 8, 246

Calvin C. Jillson

#8. There are times not to flirt. When you're sick. When you're with children. When you're on the witness stand.

Joyce Jillson

#9. If you're white and wealthy, Texas is a great place, however, no Texas governor Republican or Democrat is eager to raise taxes and without that you can't expand access to health care or decrease the cost of higher education.

Calvin Jillson

#10. Because I've overcome the vanity and pride of being different. I've understood that they are a pitiful defense against being different. Because I've understood that the sun shines differently when something changes, but I'm not the axis of those changes.

Andrzej Sapkowski

#11. Life is to short to worry about everything.

Radostin Chernev

#12. I could shoot you in the foot."
"Please do. At least then I wouldn't have to endure this sock humiliation any longer.

Lisa Kessler

#13. A talent somewhat above mediocrity, shrewd and not too sensitive, is more likely to rise in the world than genius.

Charles Horton Cooley

#14. Back in the '40's, Lyndon Johnson could still steal a Senate election in South Texas with the help of the big patrons.

Calvin Jillson

#15. If any such lover be in earth which is continually kept from falling, I know it not: for it was not shewed me. But this was shewed: that in falling and in rising we are ever preciously kept in one Love.

Julian Of Norwich

#16. Cats, for the most part, seem indifferent to human activities that do not revolve around their needs and wants. They all but roll their eyes at the owners who expect their cats to do things for them.

Joyce Jillson

#17. How many houses are burned down in the United States every year? What would be the easiest way to increase that number by a significant amount (say, at least 15%)?

Randall Munroe

#18. The American Dream is a constant reminder that America's true nature and distinctive grandeur is in promising the common man, thr man on the make, a better chance to succeed here than common men enjoy anywhere else on earth.
Pursuing the American Dream, 9, 269

Calvin C. Jillson

#19. Life is all about chances. It's all about these little moments that add up to greatness. And there are times when you have to grab greatness by the balls and say, 'Hey! Greatness! I've got your nuts and you can't do a single godsdamn thing about it!

T.J. Klune

#20. The madman runs to the East and his keeper runs to the East, both are running to the East. Their purposes differ.

Thomas Merton