Jericho Swain Quotes & Sayings

Maybe there are three or four really good poets in a generation. — Kenneth Koch

started feeling real sorry for everybody, even though they were screaming and acting silly. I thought about how much work it was to have fun, and how brave we all were for going to the trouble, since the easiest thing would be to just moan and cry and bite the walls, because we're all going to die anyway, sooner or later. Isn't that sad? I saw how every human life is a story, and the story always ends badly. — David Sedaris

There will be a report coming out, and my name will be on it. — Shaquille O'Neal

I'm John Salley, and I'm a vegan. I'm a vegan because I'm only four pounds heaver than I was in 1989. — John Salley

I saw Mussolini tirelessly contemplate a parade of thousands of young men. — Georges Simenon

Our invisibility is the essence of our oppression. And until we eliminate that invisibility, people are going to be able to perpetuate the lies and myths about gay people. — Jean O'Leary

Most of the avoidable suffering in life springs from our attempts to escape the unavoidable suffering inherent in the fragmentary nature of our present existence. We expect immortal satisfactions from mortal conditions, and lasting and perfect happiness in the midst of universal change. To encourage this expectation, to persuade mankind that the ideal is realizable in this world, after a few preliminary changes in external conditions, is the distinguishing mark of all charlatans, whether in thought or action. — Hugh Kingsmill

You've got one hero too many already. Stand on your own feet, Brother. It's good for the soul. — Dorothy Dunnett

If you really wish to follow Christ, if you want your love for him to grow and last, then you must be faithful to prayer. It is the key to the vitality of your life in Christ. Without prayer, your faith and love will die. If you are constant in daily prayer and in the Sunday celebration of Mass, your love for Jesus will increase. And your heart will know deep joy and peace, such as the world could never give. — Pope John Paul II