Jarkesy Quotes & Sayings

I'm restless. Things are calling me away. My hair is being pulled by the stars again. - Anais Nin — Amber L. Johnson

If it weren't for radio programs like 'The George Jarkesy Show,' no one would know about 'The Amateur'. — Edward Klein

I wish I could separate trauma from politics, but as long as we continue to live in denial and treat only trauma while ignoring its origins, we are bound to fail. In today's world your ZIP code, even more than your genetic code, determines whether you will lead a safe and healthy life. People's income, family structure, housing, employment, and educational opportunities not only affect their risk of developing traumatic stress but also their access to effective help to address it. Poverty, unemployment, inferior schools, social isolation, widespread availability of guns, and substandard housing all are breeding grounds for trauma. Trauma breeds further trauma; hurt people hurt other people. — Bessel A. Van Der Kolk

Till we are uneasy in Rest, we can have no Desire to move, and without Desire of moving there can be no voluntary Motion. — Benjamin Franklin

Every book is a box of ideas. — Blue Balliett

I'm not too involved in day-to-day matters. I only supervise at the board level. — Adi Godrej

Most guys don't like to be pursued like that. I mean, I suppose it's kinda flattering when a girl likes you so much that she'll go after you, but most guys want to be the ones doing the chasing. — Melody Carlson

What sort of moths eat chainmail? — George R R Martin

The only real escape from hell is to conquer it. — Scott Hawkins

These secrets came down my own ornately curved and twisting family line. For family stories are never as direct as history books, and therefore they are more true. — Liz Rosenberg

On the girl's brown legs there were many small white scars. I was thinking, Do those scars cover the whole of you, like the stars and the moons on your dress? I thought that would be pretty too, and I ask you right here please to agree with me that a scar is never ugly. That is what the scar makers want us to think. But you and I, we must make an agreement to defy them. We must see all scars as beauty. Okay? This will be our secret. Because take it from me, a scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, I survived. — Chris Cleave