Jenssen Evans Quotes & Sayings

Because when I can believe in a villain, I can fear them. My pulse races, I worry about the heroes, I read through my fingers, and flinch when disaster strikes. I exhale my relief when all is well, and I really feel it when they fall in love. No matter how fantastic the world, how unique the magic that's written into it- I have to believe in the characters before I can believe in their gifts. — Saundra Mitchell

Put differently, harden the fuck up, soldier. (And beard the fuck on, while we're at it.) — Chuck Wendig

The criterion of true beauty is, that it increases in examination; of false, that it lessens. There is something, therefore, in true beauty that corresponds with the right reason, and it is not merely the creature of fancy. — George Grenville

My tides were fluctuating, too - back and forth, back and forth - sometimes so fast they seemed to be spinning. They call this 'rapid cycling.' It's a marvel that a person can appear to be standing still when the mood tides are sloshing back and forth, sometimes sweeping in both directions at once. They call that a 'mixed state.' — Jane Pauley

(In response to 'In the end moral and political truths have to proved on the body.[ ie put one's body on the line to prove a truth]
That's a very dangerous idea. It comes quite close to saying that the willingness to suffer proves the rightness of belief. But is doesn't. The most it can ever prove is the believer's sincerity. And not always that. some people just like suffering. — Pat Barker

Life is what happens in-between the mother and the sister — Virat Kohli

Let us learn from the English rulers the simple fact that the oppressors are blind to the enormity of their own misdeeds. — Mahatma Gandhi

I have never looked at foreign countries or gone there but with the purpose of getting to know the general human qualities that are spread all over the earth in very different forms, and then to find these qualities again in my own country and to recognize and to further them. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

My therapist in Paris once told me that being creative is a better form of therapy for me than sitting on his couch. — Julie Delpy

When you work alone, you need to socialize at some level. — Jeffery Deaver

A massive rate of change is normalcy for America. What we need is planned change - Progress. We need Progress! — Bruce Sterling

The problem with people who live in a world of speeches and books and theories is they don't know how to fix things in the real world when they go wrong. They feign ignorance, blame others, and make another eloquent speech. — Kathleen Troia McFarland

Come to the woods, for here is rest, ...climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. — John Muir

I don't care what other people say. I fight every day to be the best player I can. — Steve Nash