Jossy In The House Quotes

#1. I go into a meditative state but I don't follow a path that people who meditate take, like sitting in a room and getting quiet. It is when I swim that I meditate.

Benoit Lecomte

#2. There is no objective and universally acceptable definition of good and evil. And until we have one, we will go on justifying our own actions, while condemning the actions of the others.

Gregory David Roberts

#3. Blowed if I ain't all in a muck sweat,' said the Giant, puffing like the largest railway engine. 'Comes of being out of condition. I suppose neither of you young Ladies has such a thing as a pocket-hankerchee about you?

C.S. Lewis

#4. His mouth formed an O with lips torn angry in laying duck's eggs from a chicken's rectum.

Nathanael West

#5. Adventure is worthwhile.

Aristotle.

#6. Never let yourself be persuaded that any one Great Man, any one leader, is necessary to the salvation of America. When America consists of one leader and 158 million followers, it will no longer be America.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

#7. Literacy could be the ladder out of poverty

Morgan Freeman

#8. I spend my afternoons painting and working on my Open Hearts jewelry line for Kay Jewelers. I designed an image of a heart that isn't completely closed. My mom always told me to live with an open heart - when life gets tough, you should go out and help someone else.

Jane Seymour

#9. What the best novels and novelists do is to offer a different way of seeing.

Aminatta Forna

#10. My grandmother was, back when they called them 'stewardesses,' a flight attendant. I actually had a ball wearing that little uniform and making sure everything was under control.

Erika Christensen

#11. When we touch the center of sorrow, when we sit with discomfort without trying to fix it, when we stay present to the pain of disapproval or betrayal and let it soften us, these are times that we connect with bohdichitta.

Pema Chodron

#12. When you raise taxes on small business, from 35% to 40%, you will kill jobs.

Mitt Romney

#13. Excuse him, he doesn't Target much," I said with a smile. The woman laughed and walked away.

Claire Contreras

#14. My father was an extraordinary man.

Nicolas Roeg