Jaylan Knighton Quotes & Sayings

You should not allow yourself the luxuries of discouragement of despair. Bounce back immediately, and welcome the adversity because it produces harder thinking and harder drive to get to the objective. — Ralph Nader

True Friends are the bacon bits
In the salad bowl of life. How true
I read that and straight away,
My thoughts turned to you
And especially today on your 60th
These special wishes I send
Have a really wonderful birthday
My special "bacon flavored" friend — John Walter Bratton

'Diversity' is a wonderfully seductive word. It stresses differences rather than commonalities. Diverse people worldwide are mostly engaged in hating each other - that is, when they are not killing each other. A 'diverse,' peaceful or stable society is against most historical precedent. — Richard Lamm

By those who look close to the ground dirt will be seen. I hope I see things from a greater distance. — Samuel Johnson

There is such a torture, happily unknown to ancient tyranny, as talking a man to death. Marcus Aurelius advises to assent readily to great talkers
in hopes, I suppose, to put an end to the argument. — Laurence Sterne

Krishna Murti: It is no sign of good mental health to be well adjusted to a sick society. — Charlene Diane Jones

Morphic field. That's what it's called when a certain kind of energy pattern is repeated over and over until it creates something like an aura. This prison, for example. All of the hatred, ignorance, pain, humiliation, and greed constantly being put out by everyone here has created one hell of a negative morphic field. The thing about morphic fields is that they behave like magnets. Like attracts like. It draws more of the same energy to itself, and it touches everyone who comes here. The people who come to see me immediately feel disgust, anger, and repugnance for the kind of people they have to deal with here. It also explains why every new batch of guards who come to work here are a little more brutal and ignorant than the last. As the morphic field grows increasingly worse, it draws in the kind of people who resonate with it. — Damien Echols

The national distrust of the contemplative temperament arises less from an innate Philistinism than from a suspicion of anything that cannot be counted, stuffed, framed or mounted over the fireplace in the den. — Lewis H. Lapham

Capitalism has survived communism. Now, it eats away at itself. — Charles Bukowski

I'm a novelist, period. An American novelist. — Don DeLillo

I can't believe anyone would voluntarily run 26 miles. Sometimes I sit on the couch cross-legged because I don't feel like walking to the bathroom. — Jen Lancaster

Second place is a nice title for the first loser. — Sarah J. Maas

None but an armed nation can dispense with a standing army. To keep ours armed and disciplined is therefore at all times important. — Thomas Jefferson

It was a war, and in a war there are always casualties. Never winners, but always plenty of casualties."
-- Nenya, The Water Warrior — Mili Fay