Jez Usbourne Quotes & Sayings

It is my belief no man ever understands quite his own artful dodges to escape from the grim shadow of self-knowledge. — Joseph Conrad

And if you ask again whether there is any justice in the world, you'll have to be satisfied with the reply: Not for the time being; at any rate, not up to this Friday. — Alfred Doblin

I have more folds than an origami convention. — Roscoe Arbuckle

An old medical friend gave me some excellent practical advice. He said: "You will have for some time to go much oftener down steps than up steps. Never mind! win the good opinions of washerwomen and such like, and in time you will hear of their recommendations of you to the wealthier families by whom they are employed." I did so, and found it succeed as predicted. — William Crawford Williamson

If a religious principle is worth anything, it applies to a million of human beings as truly as to one; and the difficulty of insisting on its wider application does not furnish any proof that it ought not to be so applied. — Henry Parry Liddon

Becoming Christlike is a lifetime pursuit and very often involves growth and change that is slow, almost imperceptible. — Ezra Taft Benson

Not old enough to feel like an adult , really, but old enough to look like one, and to know the distinction between being carefree and careless. — Gregory Maguire

Those only obtain love, for the most part, who seek it not. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The object of education is to teach us to love what is beautiful. — Plato

[It is possible] that the race of red men ... will, before many generations, be remembered only as a strange, weird, dream-like specter, which has passed once before the eyes of men, but had departed forever. — James A. Garfield

Glizzy Gang is a real movement. They had movements back when I was younger, in the '90s, but you don't really have a major movement in the 2000s. — Shy Glizzy

It is much harder to lie to someone's face.
But.
It is also much harder to tell the truth to someone's face. — David Levithan

Maybe the one had to be lost for the others to be found? — Donna Tartt

The sun had dipped below the horizon and the sky was almost entirely pencil-lead grey. It felt like the normal world had followed the sun over the horizon too, leaving me in this cold, dark universe that made no sense. — Kendra Leighton