Jovana Quotes & Sayings

mind, this poor child must be from — P.L. Parker

Wisdom comes with the ability to be still. Just look and just listen. No more is needed. Being still, looking, and listening activates the non-conceptual intelligence within you. Let stillness direct your words and actions. — Eckhart Tolle

Why did McNamara have such good figures? Why did McNamara have such good staff work and Ball such poor staff work? The next day Ball would angrily dispatch his staff to come up with the figures, to find out how McNamara had gotten them, and the staff would burrow away and occasionally find that one of the reasons that Ball did not have comparable figures was that they did not always exist. McNamara had invented them, he dissembled even within the bureaucracy, though, of course, always for a good cause. It was part of his sense of service. He believed in what he did, and thus the morality of it was assured, and everything else fell into place. It was all right to lie and dissemble for the right causes. It was part of service, loyalty to the President, not to the nation, not to colleagues, it was a very special bureaucratic-corporate definition of integrity; you could do almost anything you wanted as long as it served your superior. — David Halberstam

A battle? What battle? Jasmira shrieked. — A.O. Peart

It was a surprise party, Parker," America said softly.
"Oh," Parker said, cringing.
"You're throwing me a surprise party?" I asked America.
She shrugged. "It was Trav's idea. It's at Brazil's on Sunday. Six o'clock. — Jamie McGuire

Since 1966, hundreds of books have been published that follow murderers along their paths of destruction. Every serial killer, it seems, now has a biographer or two. — Eric Schlosser

It is impossible to effectively parent from the driver's seat of a minivan. — Jim Berg

I stifled a sigh and ignored the Imprinted Drunk Vision Girl. — P.C. Cast

For nine more nights they trained, after an arduous day's march, Vaelin would try to turn a poet into a swordsman. — Anthony Ryan

Gradually work your way towards the hard stuff. That will help you avoid injury and you'll be most likely to stick with it. — Miesha Tate

Our souls set us apart from every other living creature, and that makes us unique. It also makes us fully human. — Billy Graham

Carl sent a message from his brain to his hands that it was still illegal to strangle people. — Jussi Adler-Olsen