Jo Graham Quotes & Sayings

But if the things I believe are right and true, then what fear have I of challenge, for will those things I learn not simply prove what is? And if the things I believe are not right and true, would it not be better for me to know that and face it like a man? — Jo Graham

There are always people making decisions you can't control. But you decide what you're willing to do. What you can live with. At the end of the day, that's the only thing you can control. — Jo Graham

There's only one thing you can say when you come up against magic like this, and Mitch waited a long moment in silence to find the right words, to make them good and true and real.

"Not tomorrow," he said. "Because it's Sunday and it's Christmas Day. And not Monday, because it's a federal holiday, but Tuesday. Will you marry me on Tuesday?"

She looked up and her lashes were wet as though she'd been crying too, dawning belief in her eyes. "Yes. — Jo Graham

Atlantis currently has more than two hundred drones remaining, even after our encounter with the hive ship. — Jo Graham

The truth will make us free, Charmian. The best we can do is carry the banner proudly in our own time. — Jo Graham

I want to know everything. I want to know how the clouds move and why islands fall into the sea. I want to know how to plant almond trees and how to make children grow up straight and healthy. I want to know how princes should govern and why people love. I want to understand the stars in the heavens and all the words that were ever made. I want to remember every story that was ever told. — Jo Graham

Whether or not that's how it is," I said, "we must live according to what we believe, not the beliefs of others."

"The beliefs of others are not irrelevant, not when they shape the world we live in!"

"I didn't say they were irrelevant. But they will never dictate my judgment or my decisions," I snapped back. "Because others believe something does not make it true. You are not stupid because Plato says you must be, nor is Cleopatra a whore because some Roman wit will say it. I will never trust any learned opinion more than what I see in front of my face. — Jo Graham

But you are imperfect, and you deserve to be. — Jo Graham

We are all prisoners of our birthdays," I said, "Though we try to transcend them. We are creatures of our times, and sometimes our souls peek through the cracks and yearn for the sky. And then we are magnificent creatures. — Jo Graham

Wonderful," Rodney said again. "I wonder how many more of our former allies are going to have been Culled like this?" "That's what I like about you, McKay," Sheppard said. "You're an optimist. — Jo Graham

How shall I raise dead men up to plow fields that are fallow? How shall I plant young olive trees?"

Mikel smiled, and it was a beautiful smile. "One tree at a time," He said. — Jo Graham

The office was different. That was the first thing Dick noticed. Not that he'd spent enough time in the Oval Office for it to feel like home. The sunburst rug was the same, and so were the paired cream colored couches, but the heavy draperies that had covered the windows were gone. The Remington bronzes of cowboys on pitching horses had been replaced by white china containers with subdued ivy topiaries. And the desk was different. It was a mess. — Jo Graham

Papers, books, a laptop, a blackberry, and a half-empty cup of coffee littered its usually pristine walnut surface. — Jo Graham

He hadn't done it, and there was no point thinking about might-have-beens — Jo Graham

Once in a thousand years the sea/ smothers the moon at my window/ opens a gate in my heart: — Jo Graham

Reports of our demise have been greatly exaggerated," Sheppard said. He'd always wanted to use that line. — Jo Graham

You've got that wrong. I care what the people I care about think. But the rest of the sheep can trot off a cliff. — Jo Graham

Can the leopard change his spots?" Emrys mused. "Leopards have, but the other leopards don't like it. — Jo Graham

Yes, I'm wearing a baby," Sheppard said. "It's very funny. Can we get past that? — Jo Graham

Yet I feel like Theseus running madly through the coils of the labyrinth with horrors following at my heels and every twist bringing a new and dreaded sight. I dream and it pursues me I am sunk so far in horror heaped upon horror that I cannot taste wine or see the sun above. The world has ended and I don't know why I yet Live — Jo Graham

Have you ever done something so horrible and so irreparable that you knew there was nothing you could ever do to fix it?"

"No," I said gently. "Mostly because I'm eight. — Jo Graham

Oh, I'm fine! People booby-trap DHDs that I'm working on every day!" Rodney paused. "Actually, that's truer than I'd like. — Jo Graham

All Knowledge is dangerous — Jo Graham