Jurecs Quotes & Sayings

You know what has made me the happiest I've ever been? Seeing my son and daughter graduate from college. More than wanting them to be educated, I wanted them to be nice people. To see that they have become both is just a wonderful thing. — Gil Scott-Heron

When you guest-star, you're usually at the center of the dramatic arc, so that's fun. — Bellamy Young

Nothing I could say could repel or shock her; there seemed no limit to her powers of sympathy and understanding, the generosity and spaciousness of her heart. — Oliver Sacks

The latest consensus is that most of us are mentally elsewhere between 30 and 50 percent of our waking hours. — David DiSalvo

For a time, I was quite literally at loss as to what to do with myself. For more than half a century I had looked after Suleiman.My daily existence had been shaped by his needs, his companionship. Now I was free to do as I wished, but I found the freedom illusory, for what I wished for the most had been taken from me. They say, find a purpose in your life and live it. But, sometimes, it is only after you have lived that you recognize your life had a purpose, and likely one you never had in mind. And now that I had fulfilled mine, I felt aimless and adrift. — Khaled Hosseini

I cannot remember a time when the question of why people behave as they do was not intensely interesting to me. The desire to understand was very important. When I was young, I was aware of the fact that much of the time, the reasons a person gave for his actions were not the actual reasons. — Nathaniel Branden

Seeds blow in the wind and what is earf but a deadness with life growing out of it? — Russell Hoban

There is the truth about the marathon and very few of you have written the truth. Even if I explain to you, you'll never understand it, you're outside of it. — Douglas Wakiihuri

Oh Izzy, girl how do you let him get dressed. A shame, oh it is a shame to let that man ever put clothes on. — Harper Sloan

The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.
— Henry Kissinger

If any one be in rapture with his own knowledge, looking only on those below him, let him but turn his eye upward towards past ages, and his pride will be abated, when he shall there find so many thousand wits that trample him under foot. — Michel De Montaigne

Music can measure how broad our horizons are. My mind wants to see to infinity. — Stevie Wonder

Plainly, this unwillingness to give ground even on unimportant disagreements is the symptom of some deepseated insecurity, as was my one-time fondness for making teasing remarks (which I amended when I read Anthony Powell's matter-of-fact observation that teasing is an unfailing sign of misery within) and as is my very pronounced impatience. The struggle, therefore, is to try and cultivate the virtuous side of these shortcomings: to be a genial host while only slightly whiffled, for example, or to be witty at the expense of one's own weaknesses instead of those of other people. — Christopher Hitchens