Jr Ward Book List Quotes & Sayings

Is that what love is all about? Needing them to come back to you when they're away? To come home and keep you safe? — Wally Lamb

I stopped short in the path today to admire how the trees grow up without forethought regardless of the time and circumstances. They do not wait as men do - now is the golden age of the sapling - Earth, air, sun, and rain, are occasion enough - . — Henry David Thoreau

Our chief want in life, is,
someone who shall make us do what we can.
This is the service of a friend.
With him we are easily great. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Reportage is violence. Violence to the spirit. Violence to the emotional sympathy that should quicken in you and me when face to face we meet with pain. How many defeated among our own do we step over and push aside on our way home to watch the evening news? "Terrible" you said at Somalia, Bosnia, Ethiopia, Russia, China, the Indian earthquake, the American floods, and then you watched a quiz show or a film because there's nothing you can do, nothing you can do, and the fear and unease that such powerlessness brings, trails in its wash, a dead arrogance for the beggar on the bridge that you pass every day. Hasn't he got legs and a cardboard box to sleep in?
And still we long to feel. — Jeanette Winterson

Human cruelty took the form of a pact with the deity. A solemn oath was made to kill everything, in which people forbade themselves any display of reason or compassion. A city or a land was devoted to destruction and it was believed an insult to God if one did not observe the abominable oath. — Ernest Renan

Existence is a miracle, and, morally considered, a free gift from moment to moment. — George Santayana

If a religion cannot help a human wherever he or she stands, it is not of much use. — Abhijit Naskar

I come from generations of farmers. — Chuck Palahniuk

He struggled wildly and got one hand free just as a fist looped down into his face like a runaway moon. — Stephen King

I think everyone is introduced to the Peter Pan story when they're very young. Everyone has read the book and watched the Disney film and all that. — Charlie Rowe

He takes out his anger by having his carriage speed through the streets, scattering the commoners in the way. — Charles Dickens

Colleges don't teach economics properly. Unfortunately we learn little from the experience of the past. An economist must know, besides his subject, ethics, logic, philosophy, the humanities and sociology, in fact everything that is part of how we live and react to one another. — Bernard Baruch

K
: 'When they say "I am my own person," "I do not need a man," "I am responsible for my own sexuality," they are actually telling you just what they want you to make them forget. — David Foster Wallace

I'd rather be the bloke laughing at other people. I don't need to make people laugh. I surround myself with funny people. I laugh all the time. — Jennifer Garner