Joughin Charles Quotes & Sayings

I still don't look like what I think I look like. — Molly Parker

You should not have believ'd me, for virtue cannot so
inoculate our old stock but we shall relish of it. I lov'd you not. — William Shakespeare

Even the bravest only rarely have courage for what they really know. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Repercussions are serious and they will take you places. — Bryan Clay

Anything that is within you is a gift. To be able to take possession of that and say, "Whatever it is, I am bigger than it," is to learn to cherish even the hard and painful things. — John Darnielle

Some things are like that - they strike you as repugnant for instinctive reasons, probably having to do with your culture and the way you were raised. The French word "gauche" comes to mind, but I preferred the Hebrew word "treyf." Literally, it means not kosher, but I also use it to describe things like cars, bars, strip clubs, guns, dogs, rock-n-roll, and football games. Things that are treyf, you avoid, not because you hate them per se, but because in avoiding them you keep yourself from becoming like the people you hate. — Aaron Cometbus

I still believe in a place called Hope. — William J. Clinton

I've never competed in powerlifting. But my goals weren't to be a powerlifter. My goals were to pack on size and get big, big, big. — Kai Greene

Pretty much everything I've written is a mix of excitement and fear. — Marlon James

I'd never given much too thought to how I would die- though I'd had reason enough in the last few months- but even if I had, I would not have imagined it like this. — Stephenie Meyer

What the mind cannot accept, the heart can finally never adore. — John Shelby Spong

The motto of this city should be the immortal words spoken by that French field marshal during the siege of Sebastopol, "J'y suis, j'y reste" - "I am here, and here I shall remain." People are born here, they grow up here, they go to the University of Washington, they work here, they die here. Nobody has any desire to leave. You ask them, "What is it again that you love so much about Seattle?" and they answer, "We have everything. The mountains and the water." This is their explanation, mountains and water. As much as I try not to engage people in the grocery checkout, I couldn't resist one day when I overheard one refer to Seattle as "cosmopolitan." Encouraged, I asked, "Really?" She said, Sure, Seattle is full of people from all over. "Like where?" Her answer, "Alaska. I have a ton of friends from Alaska." Whoomp, there it is. — Maria Semple

The economic illusion is the belief that social justice is bad for economic growth. — Robert Kuttner