Jordynn Ballard Quotes

#1. I go to the chair of government with feelings not unlike those of a culprit who is going to the place of his execution.

George Washington

#2. Anything can become a children's book if you give it to a child ... Children are actually the best (and worst) audience for literature because they have no patience with pretence.

Orson Scott Card

#3. I paint with my back to the world

Agnes Martin

#4. There's no need to legalize gay marriage. I have plenty of gay friends who are committed couples; some of them call themselves married, some don't, but their friends treat them as married. Anybody who doesn't like it just doesn't hang out with them.

Orson Scott Card

#5. It only shows how true the old saying is, that a man never knows what he can do till he tries, gentlemen. From "Pickwick Papers" ch. 49 page 646

Charles Dickens

#6. Why do you want so much this new beginning? Do you think the new beginning will postpone the end? Are you afraid of the end? Are you afraid of death Michael?" (Ch.35)

Stevan V. Nikolic

#7. I ain't gonna be no escape-goat!

Karl Malone

#8. Either we pay the government's bills, or we leave them for our kids to pay. It's that simple.

Laurence Kotlikoff

#9. See, if you paint wrong because that's the best you can do, you just a chump. But you do it because you want to? Then you're an artist.

Neal Shusterman

#10. Everybody's life is either a warning or an example. You've got to decide what you're gonna be and you have to draw a line in the sand.

Tony Robbins

#11. The fact is, if our primary legislative goals are to repeal and replace the health spending bill; to end the bailouts; cut spending; and shrink the size and scope of government, the only way to do all these things it is to put someone in the White House who won't veto any of these things.

Mitch McConnell

#12. You are too smart and too knowledgeable to believe much of the nonsense you have been espousing on global warming and many other issues.

Howard Wolpe

#13. People think they're being saved from a Bolshevik revolution," Frunze said. "The Nazi press has them convinced that the Communists were about to launch a campaign of murder, arson, and poison in every town and village.

Ken Follett

#14. I believe that everything is political, and as such it should concern all of us. Authors who claim they don't deal with politics in their work are being naive, because even that is a political stance.

Elena Poniatowska

#15. Motherhood is a fleeting season in our life, maximize every moment.

Jill Savage