Jocic Quotes

#1. In terms of writing, I think what most fiction writers treasure more than anything is the feeling that they're living for the length of a book inside another person.

Lauren Groff

#2. We spend time worrying about our kids' faith when the greatest influence in their lives is you sticking to yours.

Mark Holmen

#3. What is different is not necessarily dangerous, and what is similar is not always secure.

T.F. Hodge

#4. In third grade, I was taking tap-dance lessons, and about six weeks before the recital I wanted to quit. My mom said, 'No, you're going to stay with it.' Well, I did it, and I was bad, too! But my parents never let their kids walk away from something because it was too hard.

Rebecca Lobo

#5. A flash of harmless lightning,
A mist of rainbow dyes.
The burnished sunbeams brightening
From flower to flower he flies;
While wakes the nodding blossom
But just too late to see
What lip hath touched her bosom
And drained her rosary.

John B. Tabb

#6. For you all think God is one who rewards good and punishes evil, but I say to you that God is one who loves you and has compassion for everyone. You just have to pray to Him and believe in Him. He will always be your guiding light.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#7. The proposal that the human household originated in competition over food presents a challenge to conventional thinking because it holds economics as primary and sexual relations as secondary.

Richard W. Wrangham

#8. I came to England in 1962 as a very young bride, in my teens, hoping just to stay two years and go back.

Buchi Emecheta

#9. Obviously there is pain in childbirth. But giving birth is also a moment of awe and wonder, a moment when the true miracle of aliveness, and of a woman's amazing part in that miracle, is suddenly experienced in every cell of one's body. It is in that sense truly an altered state of consciousness.

Riane Eisler

#10. I think being a guest star on an ongoing TV show can be a nightmare, and I've done it a lot. You're walking into this family who's very comfortable where they are, and you have to jump on the train and be artificially comfortable. That's a very hard thing to do.

Janel Moloney

#11. Belief is a very peculiar thing: we tend to put more store in a belief we like than a fact we hate.

Stephen Tobolowsky

#12. It's dangerous when people are willing to give up their privacy.

Noam Chomsky

#13. I leave love notes all around the house. They're on your pillow, in the fridge, in your sock drawer, but you don't see them. They say I love you. They say You can love me without fear.

Richard Jay Goldstein

#14. judging a person by their mistakes is like looking in the the mirror and seeing yourself without any flaws

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#15. The poor who commit murder, rape and robbery are not only not starving, they have far more material things than the word 'poverty' suggests.

Dennis Prager