Jan Karon Mitford Quotes & Sayings

I like it when you reach into a vending machine to grab your candy bar, and that flap goes up to block you from reaching up? That's a good invention. Before that, it was hard times for the vending machine owners. "Yeah, what candy bar are you getting?" "That one, and every one on the bottom row!" — Mitch Hedberg

Finding the right person to spend forever with shouldn't be easy. When things come easily, the relationship ends up being temporary. — Catherine Bybee

The word 'proof' should strictly only be used when we are dealing with deductive inferences.... Popper claimed that scientists only need to use deductive inferences.... So if a scientist is only interested in demonstrating that a given theory is false, she may be able to accomplish her goal without the use of inductive inferences.... When a scientist collects experimental data, her aim might be to show that a particular theory...is false. She will have to resort to inductive reasoning.... So Popper's attempt to show that science can get by without induction does not succeed. — Samir Okasha

People make fast moves around me, I react. I can't help it. — Lawrence Tierney

If we spend our time with regrets over yesterday, and worries over what might happen tomorrow, we have no today in which to live. — Thomas Sowell

Mitford would simply like to be the pause that refreshes.' — Jan Karon

Go, and be as the butterfly — Jan Karon

Alchemy: In times of recession it's not wise to argue about the price of gold. — Robin Sacredfire

MITFORD BOOKS BY JAN KARON At Home in Mitford A Light in the Window These High, Green Hills Out to Canaan A New Song A Common Life In This Mountain Shepherds Abiding Light from Heaven Home to Holly Springs In the Company of Others Somewhere Safe with Somebody Good — Jan Karon

The Government's first priority on coming to office was to secure long-term economic stability and put an end to the damaging cycle of boom and bust. — Alan Johnson

She was all he could see. — Rainbow Rowell

Cutcutcutcutcutcut . . . At 4:10, the machine lifted off the roof of Mitford Hospital and, in the starless night, burned itself away. — Jan Karon

Pengelly looked away. 'See you both around twelve, — Jeffrey Archer

The key to songwriting is just to be able to observe, and put yourself in situations to be around people, and let those ideas come to you. — Eric Church

Opinionum enim commenta delet dies; naturae judicia confirmat.
Time destroys the groundless conceits of men; it confirms decisions founded on reality. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

We can't forget that I owe you my life." She gazed at him. "We can't forget that I belong to you."
"I like that sound of that," Alexander said, hugging her tighter. — Paullina Simons

If you want something as bad as you want to breathe, then you can do it. — Tyler Seguin

The kiss stayed there with no place to go, no sensory reserve that could absorb it and file it away as a common act of intimacy, a thousand times received. He knew what Anna was asking: whether you could love someone without habits. — Nicole Krauss

As Latter-day Saints, we need not look like the world. We need not entertain like the world. Our personal habits should be different. Our recreation should be different. Our concern for family will be different. As we establish this distinctiveness firmly in our life's pattern, the blessings of heaven await to assist us. — Robert D. Hales