Jabbalab Quotes & Sayings

This is one of the difficulties and pleasures of studying the Inklings; Christians all, they offer, along with the expected 20th-century psychological explanations for behavior, unexpected spiritual ones. — Philip Zaleski

Everyone has a story to tell...Tell me yours and I'll tell you mine. — Mimi Tulane

It's easy to want peace and love in hypothetical situations - then reality sets in, and sometimes we have to do what's ugly. — Richelle Mead

A life spent in constant labor is a life wasted, save a man be such a fool as to regard a fulsome obituary notice as ample reward. — George Jean Nathan

There is a frozen moment after a really good shot to the face. A moment of shock, or paralysis where all you can do is blink. — Laurell K. Hamilton

The secret was to just be cool, stay in God's graces, and work it out. — Solomon Burke

A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer. — Karl Kraus

Life hands out challenges that we all unwillingly accept. We have no choice in the acceptance really because that is essentially what life is; a series of unavoidable challenges thrown our way, and how we assess them, deal with them, and progress through them, shapes our life to be what it will be.
Some of us assess challenges in different ways, either seeing them as a hurdle that one can easily jump over, or as a brick wall that seems impossible to climb. — K.M. Golland

As for the dinosaur - But Noah's conscience was easy; it was not named in his cargo list and he and the boys were not aware that there was such a creature. He said he could not blame himself for not knowing about the dinosaur, because it was an American animal and America had not then been discovered. — Mark Twain

We forget that Socrates was famed for wisdom not because he was omniscient but because he realized at the age of seventy that he still knew nothing. — Robert Wilson Lynd

Whatever the reason, first place was always Solo, always, always, always, and second place was usually Chewbacca, because if you weren't the one saving the galaxy, you might as well be eight feet tall and covered with hair. — Charles Yu

In the end, I wonder if the true movement of the world might not be a voice raised in song. — Muriel Barbery

In most sports they have a physical effect on your performance, in swimming only psychological. If you worry about what your rival is doing, you take your mind off what you are doing and so fail to concentrate on your performance. — Louis Fabian Bachrach Jr.