Thirteens Jordans Quotes

#1. I keep a large map of the world hanging above my bed. Everybody wants to own land, but I want to own the oceans.

Jarod Kintz

#2. I've done everything for the wrong reasons. All the good works people credit to me are nothing because I did them expecting God to repay me. I thought if I worked hard enough, God would have to give me what I wanted. The truth is I've never served the Lord at all. I was always serving myself.

Francine Rivers

#3. Harnessing change is the most valuable tool available for creating the reality that you clearly desire.

Steven Redhead

#4. A writer need not devour a whole sheep in order to know what mutton tastes like, but he must at least eat a chop. Unless he gets his facts right, his imagination will lead him into all kinds of nonsense, and the facts he is most likely to get right are the facts of his own experience.

W. Somerset Maugham

#5. Aint nuttin' but a peanut.

Ronnie Coleman

#6. Dated" in Selah's book, being a euphemism for "had enthusiastic and frequent sex with".

Charlaine Harris

#7. Anthropologists are great at novelistic observations. I would be thrilled if this novel would encourage anthropologists to write what they see in fictional form.

Lily King

#8. Everybody should read something. Otherwise we all fall down into the pit of ignorance. Many are down there. Some people fall in it forever. Their lives mean nothing. They should not exist. (From the short story, "Charity".)

Charles Baxter

#9. Skill, education, money aren't the difference makers, passion is. If you've passion to achieve something, there's nothing that can stop you.

Assegid Habtewold

#10. The less you use your brain, the less it will be there for use when you need it.

Auliq Ice

#11. There's so much guilt there attached to having a perfectly good life.

Emma Forrest

#12. No matter what happens, just read a book if you want read a book.

Anonymous

#13. Perhaps in His wisdom the Almighty is trying to show us that a leader may chart the way, may point out the road to lasting peace, but that many leaders and many peoples must do the building.

Eleanor Roosevelt

#14. Intelligent people are always on the unpopular side of anything.

Kin Hubbard

#15. The only way in which a nation can make itself wealthy and prosperous is by good housekeeping: that is, by providing for its wants in the order of their importance, and allowing no money to be wasted on whims and luxuries until necessities have been thoroughly served.

George Bernard Shaw