Joy Reservers Quotes & Sayings

Great wants proceed from great wealth; but they are undutiful children, for they sink wealth down to poverty. — Henry Home, Lord Kames

If this thing's hushed up it'll be a simple denial to Jem of the way I've tried to raise him. Sometimes I think I'm a total failure as a parent, but I'm all they've got. Before Jem looks at anyone else he looks at me, and I've tried to live so I can look squarely back at him.. if I connived at something like this, frankly I couldn't meet his eye, and the day I can't do that I'll know I've lost him. I don't want to lose him and Scout, because they're all I've got. — Harper Lee

Meaning and value depend on human mind space and the commitment of time and energy by very smart people to a creative enterprise. And the time, energy, and brain power of smart, creative people are not abundant. These are the things that are scare, and in some sense they become scarcer as the demand for these talents increases in proportion to the amount of abundant computing power available. — Steven Weber

Be good, see good, receive good. — Adam Bercier

The cooperation of government at its different levels is important and can only be achieved as long as the people of Chicago are directly involved in our efforts and supportive of our goals. — Jane Byrne

When what you're doing doesn't work for 50 years, it's time to try something new. — Barack Obama

I was totally clueless about social interaction, and completely scared of girls. All I knew was that music was going to make girls fall in love with me. — Rob Sheffield

The time when you need to do something is when no one else is willing to do it, when people are saying it can't be done. — Mary Frances Berry

That amazing thing doesn't need my poem, but my poem still needs it, the way every poem still needs all the world. — Clive James

Bravery is not man's monopoly. — Mahatma Gandhi

But the coconut is also a symbol of resilience, Samar. Even in the conditions where there's very little nourishment and even less nurturance, it flourishes, growing taller than most of the plants around it. — Neesha Meminger

But to deny fate is arrogance, to declare that we are the sole shapers of our existence is madness;if you deny fate life becomes the series of missed opportunities, a regret for what never was and could have been, a remorse of what was not done and could have been done, and the present is wasted, twisted into another missed oppurtunity. — Oriana Fallaci

When I say tourism is sin and traveling on foot is virtue, it's condensed into a dictum. It's much more complex than that, but let's face it, for me, my experience, the world reveals itself to those that travel on foot. You understand the world in a much deeper level. And it does good to anyone who makes film. — Werner Herzog

The Earth does not belong to us: we belong to the Earth. — Marlee Matlin

He will get through this, even if he thinks he won't. — Cassandra Clare