C.J. Roberts Quotes

Chord substitution isn't some mysterious religious sect.

It takes a good many years and some pretty hard knocks to make people tolerant.

I am stronger than I thought I was. My favorite phrase has been 'This too shall pass.' I now understand it really well.

[T]he kingdom of God... is to be a political institution that shall hold sway over all the earth; to which all other governments will be subordinate and by which they will be dominated.

Being optimistic is like a muscle that gets stronger with use. Makes it easier when the tough times arrive. You have to change the way you think in order to change the way you feel.

I am very fulfilled in my home life, and what films do for me is to create an ironclad structure that, in my life as a mom, does not exist. It is a shapeless blob of happy chaos.

I'm an utterly average, total geek.

If your friends won't tell you the truth, who will?

Women are like dogs really. They love like dogs, a little insistently. And they like to fetch and carry and come back wistfully after hard words, and learn rather easily to carry a basket.

The writing career is not a romantic one. The writer's life may be colorful, but his work itself is rather drab.

An important function of the Supreme Court is to provide guidance, .. As a lower court judge, I appreciate clear guidance from the Supreme Court.

Useless as a pulled tooth.

I hate those men who would send into war youth to fight and die for them; the pride and cowardice of those old men, making their wars that boys must die.

Beneath words and logic are emotional connections that largely direct how we use our words and logic.

Be yourself. Be true to that, to your heart. Patience. See what happens if you step back instead of bounding forward.

With my talent, I can make people laugh and give them another attitude about life. What a blessing that is for me.

Happiness is a myth. It was invented to make us buy new things.

We love our business. We have never been more enthusiastic about cable and its future.

Everybody's a teacher if you listen.

Don't give up on your own happy-evers.

A man trusts another man when he sees enough of himself in him.

Happiness isn't happiness unless there's a violin-playing goat.

Across our country, social enterprise partnerships between the public and private sectors are providing millions of Americans - young and old - a second chance.

People love scandal; people love drama. They love stripping away the layers to see what's really in there, and they'll do anything - as well as make it up - to get it.

I only have girlfriends now who make me a better person.

there is no truly honest autobiography.

Girls inevitably grew into women, but something of the boy persisted in every man.

I am definitely not like the hottest young actress, the most beautiful or whatever. I have my own thing going.

If our language and culture are not passed on to immigrants, where will they learn to value integrity in government and the rule of law?

Every crucial experience can be regarded as a setback - or a start of a new kind of development. [You have the responsibility to decide if you will see it as a bad setback or good start!]

Curious, how one remembered Christmas. Perhaps because other days might appeal to the head, but this one appealed to the heart.

A little work, a little sleep, a little love and it's all over.

When people know what you want, they will give it to you.

Men were not equal in the effort they made, nor did equal efforts bring equal result. ... Equality of opportunity, yes. Equality of effort and result, no.

Lightning never strikes twice in the same place.

Mr. President, it may surprise my colleagues, but I am no fan of federal disaster programs for agriculture. They are difficult to pass and often a disaster to implement.

Sometimes movie-making happens like clockwork; other times, like a car accident.

I think maybe Mr. Sinise and Mr. Bacon have slightly bigger egos than I do.

Death was a beginning and not an end; it was the morning of the spirit. Tired bodies lay down to sleep and their souls wakened to the morning, rested; the first fruits of them that slept.

Suspicion is like the rain. It falls on the just and on the unjust.

There's no heart like the Indian heart.

I think less is more when it comes to kissing in the movies.

Food is music to the body, music is food to the heart.

Wouldn't it be nice if everything balanced in the world? If right came out on top and wrong was punished. It sure would be simple.

There is something shameful about the death of a play. It does not die with pity, but contempt.

You're excuses are so lame they're limping.

I don't think you can write - at least not well - if you don't love stories, love the written word.

Poetry...the deepest abyss of infinity.

Men... look back on the children who were once themselves, and attempt to reconstruct them. But they can no longer think like the child.

Welcome to the wonderful world of economics. Everything precious in life has a cost.