Jocko Conlan Quotes & Sayings

There are circumstances in which suicide presents a viable option; a workable alternative; the only sensible solution. — Edward Abbey

The nations of the world will have to unite for the next war will be an interplanetary war. The nations of Earth must some day make a common front against attack by people from other planets. — Douglas MacArthur

You don't have to be a certain thing to be cool. If you're white, you don't have to act black or whatever. Just be you and know who you are. — Wiz Khalifa

Writing is what happens when the words in your head are overpowered by the words in your heart. — J.L. Bond

Lately there have been complaints that the use of the magnitude scale is confusing, or at least the reporting of magnitudes in the newspapers 'confuses the public. — Charles Francis Richter

I remember that the day I finished 'The Angels,' part three of 'The Book of Laughter and Forgetting', I was terribly proud of myself. I was sure that I had discovered the key to a new way of putting together a narrative. — Milan Kundera

I just refer to myself as being Spirit, Mind and Body like everybody else and working toward the mastery of my natural divinity and the healing of my emotional mind. — Leonard Orr

You're like a favorite pillow. I have to pack you wherever I go. — Liane Moriarty

How what she had done could never matter since he knew he could not cure himself of loving her — Ernest Hemingway,

Everyone knows how creative the Scots are.
They're always sculpting, painting, singing songs, & writing plays.
They invented television, the telephone, & deep-fried Mars bars. — David Baillie

It was ironic but somehow fitting that the 1905 Revolution should have been started by an organisation dreamed up by the tsarist regime itself. No-one believed more than Father Gapon in the bond between Tsar and people. — Orlando Figes

His excitement was the taper that ignited our sluggish souls. — Sarah Winman

I think the greater danger is that those who think they understand the process [of overcoming our attachments] are likely to try to make it happen on their own by engaging in false austerities and love-denying self-deprivations. They will not wait for God's timing; they will rush ahead of grace. I have seen it happen when ascetic practices have become overinstitutionalized, and I have engaged in it myself when I thought I could engineer my own salvation. It does not work. — Gerald G. May

Parents know all about the verses related to how children should behave but not so much about those that remind them about how they should behave. — Jeff VanVonderen