Jadeandoak Quotes & Sayings

Once I knew nothing about McKay and now I knew everything about him. This seemed as good as any reason for not walking out the door. There are so many ways to stop the knowing, and I tried them all. I tried silence, I tried heroin, I tried calling it love. And then I stopped trying to call my dumbness any one of ten thousand names. — Alice Hoffman

The true expression of nonviolence is compassion, which is not just a passive emotional response, but a rational stimulus to action. — Mark Kurlansky

The human heart would never pass the drunk test ... If you took the human heart out of the human body and put a pair of legs on it and told it to walk a straight line, it couldn't do it. — Tennessee Williams

... any hypothesis, however absurd, may be useful in science, if it enables a discoverer to conceive things in a new way; but when it has served this purpose by luck, it is likely to become an obstacle to further advance. — Bertrand Russell

I am convinced that God is love, this thought has for me a primitive lyrical validity. When it is present to me, I am unspeakably blissful, when it is absent, I long for it more vehemently than does the lover for his object. — Soren Kierkegaard

Choose a summit; make a plan to reach there! If you think you can't make it, choose a new summit, make another plan. Or give up the summits, make new plans, find lower targets! In short, be 'flexible' in life! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

There was no recourse, were no laws but the ones rewritten every day. — Colson Whitehead

I'm afraid I can't explain myself. Because I am not myself, you see? — Lewis Carroll

The American Southwest seems to be slowly returning to the jurisdiction of Mexico without firing a single shot. — Cruz Bustamante

They're threatened by you,' she said. 'You chose to do something they'd never have the gumption to choose for themselves. Being their own person. — Diane Chamberlain

They spent pork-barrel money like a tidal-wave sea, but no funds trickled down far enough to reach me. Our books numbered few and were falling apart, and I sat mending pages with a crestfallen heart. — David Davis

Seve wore his emotions on his sleeve. You could see how much the guy cared about winning. — Johnny Miller

Better to have 3 real friends than 100,000 digital ones. — Robin Sharma

Men wrestle with the things they cannot change, and they ignore those that might bend to some economy of effort. — Hugh Howey

I've played three presidents, three saints and two geniuses - and that's probably enough for any man. — Charlton Heston