Jockin Phoenix Quotes & Sayings

We aren't designed by God to seek the image of others; we are designed to seek him. When we spend time on social media focusing on how well others present their lives, we are, to use one of my father's baseball analogies, taking our eye off the ball. — Craig Groeschel

Nature deals the cards without thought or care, and there is no point in blaming the dealer. All we can do is make the best of the hands we have been dealt. — Julian Baggini

This is the only way. I will not allow humans or fairies to die when I might have prevented it." Butler would not give up. "Listen to yourself. You sound like a ... like a good guy! There's nothing in this for you. — Eoin Colfer

The enormous energy of the twentieth century, enough to drive the planet into a new orbit around a happier star, was being expended to maintain this immense motionless pause. — J.G. Ballard

In a crooked mind even the right thing gets crooked. — Arsenie Boca

Everything we do is escapism, because we'll all be dead and everything we do is completely meaningless. Why brush your teeth? Why not be in the park with the bums passing a short dog? Why pay taxes, why get educated? Of course literature is an escape. You have to fill the hours. — T.C. Boyle

I have a cameo in every movie. In '50/50,' I'm in the back of the bus. — Jonathan Levine

No storyteller has been able to dream up anything as fantastically unlikely as what really does happen in this mad Universe. — Robert A. Heinlein

Sometimes you just have to play in pain — Gary Carter

Hell sent texts messages - group ones at that? It kind of fit, since there was nothing worse than being on the receiving end of a group message - sort of like being held hostage. — Jennifer L. Armentrout

She'd never call Smith males "womanizers." Although she would call them whores. — Shelly Laurenston

We'd made the wise choice, done the right thing. I had to believe that logic would bring comfort in time. Tonight, there was just this too-quiet room, the ache of loss, knowledge deep and final as the tolling of a bell: Something good has gone. — Leigh Bardugo

The National Security Council's real role is to coordinate the various activities of the government of the United States in the furtherance of American foreign policy. — Oliver North

You are caught in an empty house, in a box, in a place that is not happy. You are trapped inside you and wherever you go, there you are. — Frederick Lenz

We, as spiritual beings, created the physical world as a place to learn. It's our school, our playground, our artist's studio. I beleive that we're here to master the process of creation - to learn how to consciously channel the creative energy of spirit into physical form. — Shakti Gawain