Janie And Jody Quotes & Sayings

The fascinated loathing which he (Jean Lorrain) cultivated for the decadence of fin de siecle Paris has a good deal of envy and ardent desire in it; in the words of Hubert Juin, he 'loved his epoch to the point of detestation.'

(Introduction: "The Life And Career Of Jean Lorrain) — Francis Amery

It would be nice to believe that we humans were designed to love everyone unconditionally. Nice, but rather unlikely from an evolutionary perspective. Parochial love - love within groups - amplified by similarity, a sense of shared fate, and the suppression of free riders, may be the most we can accomplish. — Jonathan Haidt

The highest ensign that men ever met and embraced under, the Cross itself, had no meaning save an accidental extrinsic one. — Thomas Carlyle

Lily gave me a nod and a smile. "I wish I could be more like you. You're so confident in who you are."
I had to look away from her eyes full of admiration. "I don't know who I am, Lily. I'm just really good at pretending. — Nicole Williams

We must minister out of weakness. The reason we help others is not because we are strong and they need us; it is because if we don't help them, we will end up a hopeless relic. — John Ortberg

Happiness or sorrow- whatever befalls you, walk on untouched, unattached. — Gautama Buddha

Janie stood where he left her for unmeasured time and thought. She stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her. Then she went inside there to see what it was. It was her image of Jody tumbled down and shattered. But looking at it she saw that it never was the flesh and blood figure of her dreams. Just some thing she had grabbed up to drape her dreams over. — Zora Neale Hurston

one of the less well-advertised secrets of group sex was how often it came down to logistics. — Alexis Hall

Violet Markey, I'd like to be your partner on this project. — Jennifer Niven

If war, destruction and killings are the prerequisite to bring the peace, then I really don't want it. — Debasish Mridha

Notes Day wasn't an end point but a beginning - a way of making room for our employees to step forward and think about their role in our company's future. I said before that problems are easy to identify, but finding the source of those problems is extraordinarily difficult. Notes brought problems to the surface - but we still had the hard work in front of us. Notes Day didn't solve anything all by itself. But it shifted our culture - repaired it, even - in ways that will make us better as we go forward. — Ed Catmull

Have you ever thought your friend or loved one had issues and you kept praying for God to change them? Have you ever thought it could be you just need to change your attitude? — Amanda Penland

It's not every day that you get to be affectionate around something, it just doesn't happen that often. — Larry David

My destiny plays with me in such a way
I feel I play with my destiny. — Vivake Pathak

It's so easy to put music out that it's difficult to sift through stuff that I don't like to find stuff I do like. — Mark Hoppus

And yet ... ' he said, 'and yet, father, I am terribly afraid. I am afraid that the things the Landlord really intends for me may be utterly unlike the things he has taught me to desire.'
'they will be very unlike the things you imagine. But you already know that the objects which your desire imagines are always inadequate to that desire. Until you have it, you will not know what you wanted. — C.S. Lewis