Justen Quotes & Sayings

Do not eat of this world,
she warned as I left,
unless you are willing to suffer. — Justen Ahren

When you're young you don't know anything, but you have lot of energy to express yourself. So you make a lot of mistakes and you stumble, but you also get a lot of truth from within. — Gilbert Hernandez

Even as a supporter of Roe v. Wade, I am compelled to acknowledge that the language both sides use on this subject can be unfortunately misleading and unconstructive ... Everyone is worse off for it — John F. Kerry

Our preservation is a Trinitarian work. God the Father keeps and preserves us. God the Son intercedes for us. God the Holy Spirit indwells and assists us. — R.C. Sproul

I think it's that much harder to make a good comedy than it is straight and apparently serious. — Guy Ritchie

It's hard to confine an irrational woman in a rational pattern, so I had no idea really what was in her mind. — Leslie Ford

It hurts up to a point and then it doesn't get any worse. — Ann Trason

We taste and suckle each other, and I'm so thirsty he could feed me his kiss all night and I'd still be dying in the desert. — Katy Evans

Tesla," the vicar mused. "That's a foreign name, is it not? Hungarian,
is it?"
"Serbian," I corrected him. "I'm afraid the - shire Teslas are a
scant three centuries in these parts, having constructed Tesla Hall in
the reign of Queen Elizabeth.We are a restless people, and no doubt
will be moving on again any century now. — Vinnie Tesla

The tiniest of earthquakes seemed to rustle through him, the kind that shakes petals off flowers, as Justen became aware of the gulf between what he was supposed to feel for Persis Blake and what he actually did. — Diana Peterfreund

As sins proceed they ever multiply, and like figures in arithmetic, the last stands for more than all that wert before it. — Thomas Browne

A work of art is finished, from the point of view of the artist, when feeling and perception have resulted in a spiritual synthesis. — Hans Hofmann

Being satisfied with little, you can gain much. Seeking much you will go astray. The wise heeds this precept. If it could be so with all people! — Laozi

Try to be a Mother for every Fellow Man, so we will have many Love and Attention for Each Other what Create a Good and Careful Life for us All with Happiness and Wealth in Peace. — Jan Jansen

The shaman/priest/artist/teacher/leader does not operate for the sole benefit of herself and her kind but for the benefit of the people at large and of the universe and its patterns, as becomes what she perceives as fitting into place, into her sense of natural justice. — Judy Grahn

Night

Night came, sirens.
Dark and breathless, it came
with the limp shape of my mother in its arms./
In its white coat, it came with her from the bath/
laid her on the floor in the hall./
It struck her blue mouth
forced the metal of its own mouth over the water of hers./
It blew into her again
and again. It said, Stay.
It asked her name.

Morning came.
Tender it came
as tender as the one before.
It brought walls
and the doors of the house stood swinging open and closing upon our secrets/
for everyone to see. For days,
I slept with the words
I'd heard her singing in the tub
Hello, darkness. — Justen Ahren