Joress Quotes & Sayings

The end of man is action. — Thomas Carlyle

They seemed happy and contented, though," remarked the Wizard, "and those who are contented have nothing to regret and nothing more to wish for. — L. Frank Baum

A fool bolts pleasure, then complains of moral indigestion. — Minna Antrim

The whiskey warmed his tongue and the back of his throat, but it did not change his ideas any, and suddenly, looking at himself in the mirror behind the bar, he knew that drinking was never going to do any good to him now. Whatever he had now he had, and it was from now on, and if he drank himself unconscious when he woke up it would be there. — Ernest Hemingway,

Science of yoga and ayurveda is subtler than the science of medicine, because science of medicine is often victim of statistical manipulation. — Amit Ray

Moral codes and standards in our societies very rarely apply to all people equally. This is the most damning proof of how immoral such codes and standards really are. — Nawal El Saadawi

The prayer life does not consist of perpetual repetition of petitions. The prayer life consists of life that is always upward and onward and Godward — G. Campbell Morgan

Love made room for conflict. It allowed for the expression of more than one view and invited the paradox that disagreement was vital to harmony. Love required accepting and meant changing oneself rather than demanding change of others. — Jo Goodman

When you write or sing a song that means something to you, you are saying, 'You know what? This is who I am!' — Miley Cyrus

That's one of the magical things about the Olympics, Team GB will have someone challenging in a sport that we've never watched and all of a sudden it'll be the biggest thing ever. — Gary Lineker

We were surrounded by thirty-foot-tall giants who were about to kill us. Then the sky opened up, and the gods descended."
"Grandad," the kids said, "you are full of schist."
"I'm not kidding!" he protested. — Rick Riordan

It puzzled him, however, that he should not have known how much he had hated being a clergyman till now. He knew that he did not particularly like it, but if anyone had asked him whether he actually hated it, he would have answered no. I suppose people almost always want something external to themselves, to reveal to them their own likes and dislikes. Our most assured likings have for the most part been arrived at neither by introspection nor by any process of conscious reasoning, but by the bounding forth of the heart to welcome the gospel proclaimed to it by another. We — Samuel Butler

It's OK to be an eccentric; it's not OK to be a rude and dirty eccentric. — Temple Grandin

The media serve the interests of state and corporate power, which are closely interlinked, framing their reporting and analysis in a manner supportive of established privilege and limiting debate and discussion accordingly. — Noam Chomsky