Our America Lealan Jones Quotes & Sayings

Oh! how seldom the soul is silent, in order that God may speak. — Francois Fenelon

Early on May 23, 1997, from 28,500 feet on Everest, I witnessed the incredible shadow of the mountain, the penumbra, forming to the west as the sun rose behind me. The full moon from the night before was still visible. The bluish cast of the atmosphere can also be seen. — Ed Viesturs

He who dies for virtue does not perish. — Plautus

Evil is visible, it burns, it smugly displays itself for all to see. — Irene Nemirovsky

In the old days, a con man would be good looking, suave, well dressed, well spoken and presented themselves real well. Those days are gone because it's not necessary. The people committing these crimes are doing them from hundreds of miles away. — Frank Abagnale

When the Lord's angelic brakeman brings my life to a standstill, "and this train ends" I will board the next train and "I'll try again" (lyrics from Tuesday's Gone by Lynyrd Skynyrd). — Jonah Books

You've always been mine, pretty girl. You just didn't know it. — L.A. Casey

Sirs, if it were not for that one red spot I would have conquered the world!!! — Napoleon Bonaparte

What would you think if all your thoughts reached heaven? — Anthony D. Williams

When you have an important story to tell, the words you need seem to come of their own accord. — J. A. Jance

Break a vase, and the love that reassembles the fragments is stronger than that love which took its symmetry for granted when it was whole. — Derek Walcott

I am thrilled to be an Olympian, and I think that although we will be underdogs we can beat many teams and will be a surprise in Sydney. — Steve Nash

We have now got what seems to be definite proof that an X ray which spreads out in a spherical form from a source as a wave through the aether can when it meets an atom collect up all its energy from all round and concentrate it on the atom. It is as if when a circular wave on water met an obstacle, the wave were all suddenly to travel round the circle and disappear all round and concentrate its energy on attacking the obstacle. Mechanically of course this is absurd, but mechanics have in this direction been for some time a broken reed. — Henry Moseley

Except for Ali, fighters had never been marketable. — Sugar Ray Leonard

The notion of the perfect whole, the ultimate solution in which all good things coexist, seems to me not merely unobtainable
that is a truism
but conceptually incoherent ... Some among the great goods cannot live together. That is a conceptual truth. We are doomed to choose, and every choice may entail an irreparable loss. — Isaiah Berlin