Jack Jablonski Quotes & Sayings

...Studies have found that children who witness abuse are more likely to accept relationships that are abusive. — Asa Don Brown

I take my cues from the world around me and carefully paint a self-portrait that the world can't help but accept. However, I would be much wiser to put down all such artistic notions and hold up the portrait of me painted by God simply because that is a picture at which the world can't help but marvel. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

I'm definitely nostalgic about the music of my youth; The Clash and Fishbone and that whole music scene. I still have all that music to this day. There was some great music going on in the late 70s and 80s. — John Cusack

The thieves and killers are goin' to have guns, so if the honest men don't have 'em they just make it easier for the vicious. — Louis L'Amour

The practical man demands an appearance of reality at least. Always dealing in the concrete, he regards mathematical terms not as symbols or thought but as images of reality. A system acceptable to the mathematician because of its inner consistency may appear to the practical man to be full of contradictions because of the incomplete manner in which it represents reality. — Tobias Dantzig

He did something so un-Pucklike, Sabrina couldn't believe it. He got up sat behind her, and let his enormous fairy wings sprout from his back. Then he wrapped them around her to keep the bitter cold away. It was the first truly nice thing the so-called Trickster King had ever done for her. — Michael Buckley

The truth is never pure and rarely simple. — Oscar Wilde

God says, "I will speak to you," but Daniel cannot hear. Can we? Is it not so with us, that in this unholy turmoil and helplessness, we say, "God go away!" Yes, we know it is stupid. But if you come, then it is all over. — Edwin H. Robertson

I think daily that the country's future is being thrown to the wind. — Edwidge Danticat

He still wore, in the warming barracks, a muskrat cap with earlaps. Under it his eyes were gray as agates, as sudden as an elbow in the solar plexus. — Wallace Stegner

Like David Copperfield, I was born amidst poverty and grew up in poverty. I did not own shoes. I did not bathe in water from a tap. I did no know about forks and spoons. — Sukarno

Legal and illegal activities had become inextricably intertwined. — Michel Chossudovsky

The sea drives truth into a man like salt. — Hilaire Belloc

It would have saved trouble had I remained Perkins from the first, this changing of women's names is a nuisance we are now happily outgrowing. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman

I just want to live as a simple Buddhist monk, but during the last thirty years I have made many friends around the world and I want to have close contact with these people. I want to contribute to harmony and peace of mind, for less conflict. Wherever the possibililty is, I'm ready. This is my life's goal. — Dalai Lama