Jorys Quotes & Sayings

Embarrassment is a partner in the creative act. — Charles Jeffries

British monarchy exists not to exercise power but to keep other people from having the power. — Ketevan Gogelia

To sum up, as Bibiano said, quoting Parra: that's how it goes, the glory of the world; no world, no glory, not even a miserable mortadella sandwich — Roberto Bolano

Perfection is a fallacy. Embrace the things you cannot change and fight for those you can. — Danielle Bourdon

Success always obsoletes the behavior that achieved it. — Anonymous

Fiction offers the best means of understanding people different from oneself, short of experience. Actually, fiction can be lots better than experience, because it's a manageable size, it's comprehensible, while experience just steamrollers over you and you understand what happened decades later, if ever. — Ursula K. Le Guin

Scripture instructs God's people to give our best to whatever task we turn our hands to, to conduct ourselves as if we work for the Lord himself, not for man. — Karen Witemeyer

Why should their liberty than ours be more? — William Shakespeare

Plato in some sense anticipated the Catholic realism, as attacked by the heretical nominalism, by insisting on the equally fundamental fact that ideas are realities; that ideas exist just as men exist. Plato however seemed sometimes almost to fancy that ideas exist as men do not exist; or that the men need hardly be considered where they conflict with the ideas. — G.K. Chesterton

The Book of Mormon is our handbook of instructions as we travel the pathway from bad to good to better and strive to have our hearts changed. — David A. Bednar

November came roaring in with gusty winds and more wet weather. Mandy's depression would not go away. Her garden seemed sad, too. It was virtually empty now, and the few brave flowers that remained there were flattened by rain, their yellows stalks sprawling in all directions. Most of the trees were bare, and the woods had a wet carpet of leaves. — Julie Andrews Edwards