Jovel Quotes & Sayings

The truth is that stress doesn't come from your boss, your kids, your spouse, traffic jams, health challenges, or other circumstances. It comes from your thoughts about these circumstances. — Andrew J. Bernstein

In Russia, people suffer from the stillness of time. — Tatyana Tolstaya

Before none of your printed idols do I bend in acquiescence, and he who saith thou shalt to me is my mortal foe! — Anton Szandor LaVey

Is America truly a democracy? Has America ever been a democracy with the institution of slavery? — Tatyana Ali

She had tried to make herself like stone, but now the facade was falling away. — Ransom Riggs

History has taught us that often lies serve her better than the truth; for man is sluggish and has to be led through the desert for forty years before each step in his development. And he has to be driven through the desert with threats and promises, by imaginary terrors and imaginary consolations, so that he should not sit down prematurely to rest and divert himself by worshipping golden calves. — Arthur Koestler

Men love a joke - on the other fellow. But your really humorous woman loves a joke on herself. — Mary Roberts Rinehart

Posterity preserves only what will pack into small compass. Jewels are handed down from age to age; less portable valuables disappear. — Arthur Penrhyn Stanley

There could be more to the universe than the three dimensions we are familiar with. They are hidden from us in some way, perhaps because they're tiny or warped. But even if they're invisible, they could affect what we actually observe in the universe. — Lisa Randall

Does a daughter judge her father?" whispered Qing-jao. "Of course she does," said Father. "Every day all people judge all other people. The question is whether we judge wisely. — Orson Scott Card

The only way to break a bad habit was to replace it with a better habit. — Jack Nicholson

And just as music is the space between notes, just as the stars are beautiful because of the space between them, just as the sun strikes raindrops at a certain angle and throws a prism of colour across the sky - so the space where I exist, and want to keep existing, and to be quite frank I hope I die in, is exactly this middle distance: where despair struck pure otherness and created something sublime. — Karl Ove Knausgard

Sound judgment is the ground of writing well. — Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl Of Roscommon

Did having a dog make you less political? — John Irving