Jokeitha Quotes & Sayings

Emulation admires and strives to imitate great actions; envy is only moved to malice. — Honore De Balzac

There's more to distract people, isn't there? When I was a kid there was music and football and clothes. And that was kind of it, really. Those three things defined you as a person. — Paul Weller

Children need directing and teaching what is right in a kind, affectionate manner How often we see parents demand obedience, good behavior, kind words, pleasant looks, a sweet voice and a bright eye from a child or children when they themselves are full of bitterness and scolding! How inconsistent and unreasonable this is! — Brigham Young

Liv sits in the silent cubicle for as long as she can without someone staging an intervention, listening as several women come in, sometimes in pairs, chattering as they check hair and makeup. She checks for nonexistent e-mail and plays Scrabble on her phone. Finally, after scoring "flux," she gets up, flushes, and washes her hands, staring at her reflection with a kind of perverse satisfaction. Her makeup has smudged beneath one eye. She fixes this in the mirror, wondering why she bothers, given that she is about to sit next to Roger again. — Jojo Moyes

What people can dream, people can do. — George W. Bush

We're all damned, man. You should know that by now. — Trish Marie Dawson

His face flushed, and I felt like cheering. "Yes," he said stiffly. "Besides de vings."
"Hmm. Besides de vings." Nudge tapped one finger against her chin. "Um ... " Her face brightened. "I once ate nine Snickers bars in one sitting. Without barfing. That was a record!"
"Hardly a special talent," ter Borcht said witheringly.
Nudge was offended. "Yeah? Let's see YOU do it." ...
... "I vill now eat nine Snickers bars," Gazzy said in a perfect, creepy imitation of ter Borcht's voice, "visout bahfing."
— James Patterson

But old dreams never really died. They were always there, living as regrets for what might have been — Sherrilyn Kenyon

The secret motive of the absent-minded is to be innocent while guilty. Absent-mindedness is spurious innocence. — Saul Bellow

Of course God does outrageous things. But in reality, what insanity would prompt me to follow a God who did anything less? — Craig D. Lounsbrough

After adolescence, if one's life is sufficiently interesting, the desire to tell oneself stories diminishes. — Gore Vidal

I was immensely moved by this novel when I read it recently and yet I cannot think of anything to say about it except that it is wonderful. The people are not characters, there is no plot in the usual sense. What can you bring to bear: verisimilitude - to what? You can merely say over and over that it is very good, very beautiful, that when you were reading it you were happy. — Elizabeth Hardwick