Jumpiness Quotes & Sayings

Humourists lead ... an existence of jumpiness and apprehension. They sit on the edge of the chair of Literature. In the house of Life they have the feeling that they have never taken off their overcoats. — James Thurber

When knowledge no longer becomes the commodity of the few, but in a sense becomes equalized by everyone having access, you lose some aspect of Jewish particularity, or at least a Jewish particularity that is fundamental to the construct of Jews as people of the book, which was always interesting. — Joshua Cohen

The hardest period in life is one's twenties. It's a shame because you're your most gorgeous, and you're physically in peak condition. But it's actually when you're most insecure and full of self-doubt. When you don't know what's going to happen, it's frightening. — Helen Mirren

Love was never meant to be contained solely in our hearts, just as life in a seed was always meant to break through into the world and become beauty to be shared. — Forrest Curran

Our lives are not fully lived if we're not willing to die for those we love, for what we believe. — Martin Luther King Jr.

If people were silent nothing would change. — Malala Yousafzai

Truth - all that matters;
For it is all that endures — Joel A. Kasparian

The aeroplane will never fly. — Richard Haldane, 1st Viscount Haldane

Speaks well of a man to need a little something in this world. I wouldn't trust a man who could git through it cold sober. — Harry Crews

Worry affects the circulation, the heart, the glands, the whole nervous system. I have never known a man who died from over work, but many who died from doubt. — Charles Horace Mayo

I love Switzerland. It's so clean and cool. We don't get much snow where I live so I get real excited in Lausanne and Geneva. I'd like to buy a house there when I'm older and settle down. It's all so cute that it looks like a movie set. — Michael Jackson

The faith which you keep must be a faith that demands obedience, and you can keep it only by obeying it. — Phillips Brooks

Christianity is not a religion that offers the solace of revenge to its adherents. For that you must go to the old women who know which herbs to pluck and what charms to say under a waning moon. — Bernard Cornwell

In a world ruled by the dead, we are forced to finally start living. — Robert Kirkman