Tommy Johnagin Quotes & Sayings

There is no fast, easy shortcut for the word abbreviation. — Dana Gould

... they always gave good reasons for the things they did, and then when they got old they lost their reasons for doing anything and sat on the bench in front of the harness shop and had words for the reasons other people had but had forgotten what the reasons were. — Robert Penn Warren

A wonderful emotion to get things moving when one is stuck is anger. It was anger more than anything else that had set me off, roused me into productivity and creativity. — Mary Garden

Christian piety annihilates the egoism of the heart; worldly politeness veils and represses it. — Blaise Pascal

Meditation is a vital practice to access conscious contact with your highest self. — Wayne Dyer

We live with the things that we do to ourselves and others in doing what we've done to ourselves. — Blake Judd

The Churches belong together in the Church. What that may mean for our ecclesiastical groupings we do not know. We have not discovered the kind or outward manifestation which God wills that we shall give to that inner unity. But we must seek it. — Hugh Martin

He simply shook his head. 'If your point of reference is a glimpse you've caught of a business transaction conducted in an alley, I'd venture that you have no idea what I can do with a wall. — Courtney Milan

Genetics, accidents of birth or events in early childhood have left criminals' brains and bodies with measurable flaws predisposing them to committing assault, murder and other antisocial acts ...
Many offenders also have impairments in their autonomic nervous system, the system responsible for the edgy, nervous feeling that can come with emotional arousal. This leads to a fearless, risk-taking personality, perhaps to compensate for chronic under-arousal.
Many convicted criminals, like the Unabomber, have slow heartbeats.
It also gives them lower heart rates, which explains why heart rate is such a good predictor of criminal tendencies. The Unabomber, Ted Kaczynski, for example, had a resting heart rate of just 54 beats per minute, which put him in the bottom 3 per cent of the population. — Adrian Raine

I fully expect the police to come after me. To which I have just one thing to say: good luck. — J.D. Cunegan

If a song's meant to stay around, you carry it with you in your bones. — Jennifer Niven

The danger of a dream is the courage to conquer. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I like to help poor people who got no chance. If rich people don't, who will? Not other poor people, that's for sure. — Charles Barkley

Once you see someone lose it, you can never look at them the same way again. — Douglas Coupland

Rest forever, tired heart.
The final illusion has perished.
The one we believed eternal is gone.
Just like that. Out the door desire
follows hope. Rest forever.
Enough throbbing. Nothing deserves your attention
nor is the earth worth a sigh.
Bitterness and boredom is life,
nothing else ever, and the world is mud.
Quiet now. Despair for the last time.
Fate gives us dying as a gift.
Now turn from the hills, the ugly hidden power
which rules for the common evil
and the infinite vanity of it all. — Giacomo Leopardi