Quotes About Jim Jones

#1. Representative Leo J. Ryan understood the manipulation phenomena people were describing to him and he lost his life in a Guyanese jungle investigating how Jim Jones bent minds.

Leo Ryan

#2. I could never be in a cult. For starters, they never accessorize properly. David Koresh had no fashion sense, Jim Jones wore leisure suits, and I don't care how charismatic Osama bin Laden was, an AK-47 and an insulin drip do not take the place of drop earrings or a well-placed brooch.

Joan Rivers

#3. Hope springs eternal, unfortunately it springs from a well poisoned with Jim Jones' Kool Aid

Dean Cavanagh

#4. You are intelligent, you are diplomatic, you are beautiful, and you are and always will be ... [he kisses her] ... MINE ...

Neil Jordan

#5. The best 45 years of my life were the 5 years I spent with Ton Jones.

Jim Sullivan

#6. We live in an age when the traditional great subjects - the human form, the landscape, even newer traditions such as abstract expressionism - are daily devalued by commercial art.

Andy Warhol

#7. It's not how you start, but it's how you finish.

Michael Phelps

#8. I live kind of within myself as a person, so my outlet has always been the Muppets; therefore, I tend to do sort of wildly extroverted characters," said Jim.

Brian Jay Jones

#9. I've never seen a truly great fighter get knocked onto the ropes unconscious ... knocked out cold before ... and I saw Roy Jones get knocked out twice in a row.

Jim Lampley

#10. The quality of our lives is diminished every time we lose a great artist. It's a different world without Sam Cooke, Otis Redding, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, Curtis Mayfield, Brian Jones and the rest.

Steven Van Zandt

#11. Always listen to the voice of your conscience. If your conscience conflicts with your faith, question everything.

Suzy Kassem

#12. Kiera was a scar across my heart that would never fully heal, no matter how many random encounters I placed across it. My poor imitations of her were only ripping open the wound again and again. Good or bad, she was forever a part of me. Kellan Kyle

S.C. Stephens

#13. Economic stimulation that works through the increased outlays to the affluent has, inevitably, an aspect of soundness and sanity that is lacking in expenditure on behalf of the undeserving poor.

John Kenneth Galbraith

#14. I find it hard to swallow the notion that the world is improved by extra suffering. And that goes for a lot of Christian doctrine. Jones commits a crime, so you expiate the evil by nailing Smith to a cross and it's all better. - John Leslie

Jim Holt

#15. When I was young," wrote Jim, "my ambition was to be one of the people who makes a difference in this world. My hope still is to leave this world a little bit better for my being here."

And he did.

Brian Jay Jones

#16. It is our responsibility to keep telling these tales--to tell them in a way that they teach and entertain and give meaning to our lives,' he [Jim] said later. 'This is not merely an obligation, it's something we must do because we love doing it.

Brian Jay Jones

#17. I could never say in the morning, "I have a headache and cannot do thus and so". Headache or no headache, thus and so had to be done.

Eleanor Roosevelt

#18. I felt this awful obligation to be charming or at least have something to say, and the pressure of having to be charming (or merely verbal) incapacitates me.

Peter Cameron

#19. Dr. Bob Jones, Sr. observed, The Devil did not tempt Adam and Eve to steal, to lie, to kill, to commit adultery; he tempted them to live independently of God.

Jim Berg

#20. Complacency delivered us into the hands of evil greedy men like Cheney.

Sonia Rumzi

#21. Concert. It was a benefit for the string-playing

Jan Swafford