Jonathans Quotes & Sayings

One can say that three pre-eminent qualities are decisive for the politician: passion, a feeling of responsibility, and a sense of proportion. — Max Weber

The places that ive been, the things that i have seen - what you have as nightmares, are what i have as dreams. — DMX

The earth is mostly just a boneyard. But pretty in the sunlight. — Larry McMurtry

Seriously, I don't need a gun. I'm easily annoyed. I would shoot people in my house that I invited over. — Wanda Sykes

In her final months [Princess] Diana was being shat upon by the tabloids
basically for sleeping with an Arab. When she died, these same papers were astonished by the millennial wave of emotionalism that swept the country ... [One paper] had a print-ready story about what a slag the Princess was, and they had to pull it at the last moment. It was replaced with an image of Diana as an angel, ascending to heaven. — Martin Amis

Remember that there are only three kinds of things anyone need ever do. (1) Things we ought to do (2) Things we've got to do (3) Things we like doing. I say this because some people seem to spend so much of their time doing things for none of these three reasons, things like reading books they don't like because other people read them. — C.S. Lewis

What people tend to forget is the journey that I had getting to Formula One. There were plenty of years where I had to learn about losing and having bad races. — Lewis Hamilton

Although it raine, throw not away thy watering pot. — George Herbert

Let the fairy tale begin on a winter's morning, then, with one drop of blood newly-fallen on the ivory snow: a drop as bright as a clear-cut ruby, red as a single spot of claret on the lace cuff. — Ellen Kushner

As a painter, cursed or blessed with a terrible and vital sensuousness, I must look for wisdom with my eyes. I repeat, with my eyes, for nothing could be more ridiculous or irrelevant than a 'philosophical conception painted purely intellectually without the terrible fury of the senses grasping each visible form of beauty and ugliness. — Max Beckmann

No one has ever learned fully to know themselves. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

For, as I have often told you before and now say again even with tears, many live as enemies of the cross of Christ. — Lysa TerKeurst

I think reality TV for dancers has changed for the better. There are more opportunities and the platforms that we are being given are better. We have more job security and TV is allowing different levels of dance to come through to the forefront. People can now take their abilities and turn them into brands and make these top dollars. — Laurieann Gibson

Do not be too quick to get angry. — Lailah Gifty Akita

So many Jonathans. A plague of literary Jonathans. If you read only the New York Times Book Review, you'd think it was the most common male name in America. Synonymous with talent, greatness. Ambition, vitality. — Jonathan Franzen

Just as Hanukkah candles are lighted one by one from a single flame, so the tale of the miracle is passed from one man to another, from one house to another, and to the whole House of Israel throughout the generations. — Judah Leon Magnes