Jonnysbro Quotes & Sayings

It's hard being the king, but somebody's got to do it. — LL Cool J

No matter how big and powerful government gets, and the many services it provides, it can never take the place of volunteers. — Ronald Reagan

The fact is, the great intellectuals of the western religious tradition from Augustine to Aquinas and Peter Abelard became philosophically dominant. The intellectual tradition was preserved. The great intellectuals of the Islamic tradition like Averroes and Avicenna became heretics whose influence disappeared under the weight of rote preaching and practice. Islam as a result has a moral code, a legalistic system of right and wrong, but no evolved ethical tradition. — R. Joseph Hoffmann

Who are the new people when you do meet them? They're the same old people in masks.
There's nothing new about them at all. They're people. — Philip Roth

People on a mission are unstoppable. God bless them for it. It would be a poorer, more miserable world without them. — Gerald Nicosia

He moved heaven and earth to find you, darling girl. — Elizabeth Hunter

Your body actually reminds you about your age and your injuries - the body has a stronger memory than your mind. — Mikhail Baryshnikov

Some form of self-discipline is necessary to transmute material desires into spiritual aspirations. — Paramahansa Yogananda

A single bad habit will mar an otherwise faultless character, as an ink-drop soileth the pure white page. — Hosea Ballou

Good questions work on us, we don't work on them. They are not a project to be completed but a doorway opening onto greater depth of understanding, actions that will take us into being more fully alive. — Peter Block

There is now a widespread tendency to argue that one can only defend democracy by totalitarian methods. If one loves democracy, the argument runs, one must crush its enemies by no matter what means. — George Orwell

Nothing is so essential as dignity, girls, and time will reveal who has it — Elizabeth Gilbert

The first snow always startles. It covers the tricycle in the driveway, turning its frame into an abstact sculpture that says: See how quickly yesterday turns into today. — Peggy Noonan

A committee is twelve men doing the work of one. — John F. Kennedy

The depth of your struggle determines the height of your success. — R. Kelly