Jahnel Quotes & Sayings

To follow imperfect, uncertain, or corrupted traditions, in order to avoid erring in our own judgment, is but to exchange one danger for another. — Richard Whately

We wrote verses that condemned us, with no hope of pardon, to the most bitter solitude. — Salvatore Quasimodo

The subjects of her talk didn't matter; he knew what she was really saying. Helpless and gentle, small and tired and anxious to please, she was asking him to agree that her life was not a failure. — Richard Yates

I am not this body. I am in this body, and this is part of my incarnation and I honor it but that isn't who I am. — Ram Dass

I'm nearly 50. I'm past being photographed falling out of bars. — K.d. Lang

Considering retirement? When that happens, I don't want that to be the story of whatever the season it is. I don't want to have to be talking about it all the time. My plan is when the time is up, it'll be time to hang it up. When that comes, it'll come. But right now, I don't have any clue as to when that'll be. It's been that way the last couple of years ... I've often felt if I ever get to a point where I don't want to go recruiting and can't get excited about it, then maybe it's time. That's a pretty good indication that's probably it. And I haven't reached that point at all yet. — LaVell Edwards

When I met him, he hadn't eaten for days, and lived in a rathole. But his rifle was clean and he had lots of ammunition. Whenever he heard shooting he ran towards it. If it was workers shooting at priests, state officials, capitalists, or cops, he'd empty his rifle as fast as he could fill it. But if two groups of workers ever shot at each other, he'd risk his life by standing between them and shouting, "When workers kill each other, there is no more reason to live! Kill me from both sides."
-- Luisa Nachalo — Sophia Nachalo

Finally, I turned my lips to his ear and whispered, I love fight night. — Kristen Ashley

There was no censorship of the press: in general, the War Measures Act could have been made even more radical. — Robert Bourassa

Writing one page a day equals a 365 page novel in a year. — Kimberlee R. Mendoza