Jongbloed Publishing Quotes & Sayings

I am a story teller. If I wanted to send a message I would have written a sermon. — Philip Pullman

Conquest is not in our principles. It is inconsistent with our government. — Thomas Jefferson

My disbelief paralyzes me temporarily as I stare at the sight of my arm vanishing into an implausibly small gap between the fallen boulder and the canyon wall. Within moments, my nervous system's pain response overcomes the initial shock. Good Christ, my hand. The flaring agony throws me into a panic, I grimace and growl a sharp "Fuck!" My mind commands my body, "Get your hand out of there!" I yank my arm three times in a naive attempt to pull it out.
But I'm stuck. — Aron Ralston

When fear and suffering are disliked by me and others equally what is so special about me that I protect myself and not the other? — Santideva

I'd be honored to try marriage with you - " Jack smiles. "- you big stupid idiot. — Sara Wolf

It is good sense applied with diligence to what was at first a mere accident, and which by great application grew to be called, by the generality of mankind, a particular genius. — Samuel Johnson

When a man's friend wins, a little piece of him dies. — Lois P Frankel

I'm outa here, I'm only playing one song, and I'm not coming back for ten years! And when I come back..! — The Rev

In the long and dogged crusade that the human race has fought in favor of democracy, the ideal of liberty, of freedom, has always been the goal. — John Allen Fraser

People say, "Age is just a number." A lot of times it's not just a number. It's actually a real and true sign of someone's maturity. But in this case, she's fantastic. — Henry Cavill

If I ever have kids, this is what I'm going to do with them: I am going to give birth to them on foreign soil - preferably the soil of someplace like Oostende or Antwerp - destinations that have the allure of being obscure, freezing, and impossibly cultured. These are places in which people are casually trilingual and everyone knows how to make good coffee and gourmet dinners at home without having to shop for specific ingredients. Everyone has hip European sneakers that effortlessly look like the exact pair you've been searching for your whole life. Everything is sweetened with honey and even the generic-brand Q-tips are aesthetically packaged. People die from old age or crimes of passion or because they fall off glaciers. All the woman are either thin, thin and happy, fat and happy, or thin and miserable in a glamorous way. Somehow none of their Italian heels get caught in the fifteenth-century cobblestone. Ever. — Sloane Crosley

Nothing lifts me out of a bad mood better than a hard workout on my treadmill. It never fails. Exercise is nothing short of a miracle. — Cher

the bridesmaid's hand in his, "Hazel and I think it would be ripping to make it a double wedding." The — Edgar Rice Burroughs

Share wisdom with those who will receive it. — Tyler Perry

Far more often [than asking the question 'Is it true?'] they [children] have asked me: 'Was he good? Was he wicked?' That is, they were far more concerned to get the Right side and the Wrong side clear. For that is a question equally important in History and in Faerie. — J.R.R. Tolkien