Joncas Christopher Quotes & Sayings

The greatest waste in all the world is living below our potential. — Harold B. Lee

It is a hard but good law of fate, that as every evil, so every excessive power, wears itself out. — Johann Gottfried Herder

He gave life to the breath- oxygen, a simple gas, he transferred into words, ideas, hope. — Michael J. Fox

Politics is an extension of war by other means. Arguments are soldiers. Once you know which side you're on, you must support all arguments of that side, and attack all arguments that appear to favor the enemy side; otherwise it's like stabbing your soldiers in the back - providing aid and comfort to the enemy. Politics is the Mind-Killer. — Eliezer Yudkowsky

Space, like Switzerland, should be neutral. — Andy Rooney

I think I realized very early on that you can spend a lot of time constructing a really perfect scene in final draft and just end up throwing it away because you didn't figure out that mathematics of the story first. — Brit Marling

Don't call me that." She looked down.
I tipped her face back up. "What?"
"Baby."
Shit. I called her baby?
"Why not?" I asked. I was supposed to tell her she'd been hearing things. That grief was making her cuckoo.
"Because I like it. — Cambria Hebert

For a healthy society, those laws and conventions should always support marriage as an institution characterised by an openness to children and the responsibility of fathers and mothers remaining together to care for children born into their family. — Vincent Nichols

In democratic South Africa, dispossession is nine-tenths of the law. — Ilana Mercer

My own education has been entirely controversial: that is why I know what I am writing about; and appear eccentric to dogmatically educated Old School Ties whose heads are stuffed with obsolete shibboleths. — George Bernard Shaw

I know how you must be feeling," she went on. "Sometimes we set off down a path simply because we don't believe in it. It's easy enough. All we have to do then is prove that it isn't the right path for us. However, when things start to happen, and the path does reveal itself to us, we become afraid of carrying on. — Paulo Coelho

You NEED to look back to remember the awesome memories, to remember the positive lessons you have learned, to help someone else learn from what you have lived and to see how far you have come. — Tanya Masse

Passion is Love's blind guide, but the only one he hath. — Richard B. Garnett

Be mindful, exercise kindness, to yourselves, to each other. — Danielle Cormack