J. B. Hughes Quotes

I intend to be, the richest man in the world.

One of our anxieties is de-focusing the relatively small number of engineers we have. Within our own core development, I am reluctant to fund projects that are way afield of where we are.

War should be made a crime, and those who instigate it should be punished as criminals.

I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation.

I loved my friend He went away from me There's nothing more to say The poem ends, Soft as it began- I loved my friend.

I wanted to see New York . . . so I tried to see how fast I could do it in.

My soul has grown deep like the rivers.

Life is for the living. Death is for the dead. Let life be like music. And death a note unsaid.

He was his own leftover, the spat-out scrag. He was what his brain could make nothing of.

We're all pretty bizarre. Some of us are just better at hiding it, that's all.

I swear to the Lord, I still can't see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.

It’s interesting how God arranges your schedule. When you’re helping someone else, you never run out of time, when you’re just interested in helping yourself, time is real short.

The first lesson in civics is that efficient government begins at home.

Gather up In the arms of your love—Those who expect No love from above.

The progress of any writer is marked by those moments when he manages to outwit his own inner police system.

You could become internationally famous - you're Gemini, and according to antique authority have a literary talent, which of course your letters prove.

Marriage is an exclusive union between one man and one woman, publicly acknowledged, permanently sealed, and physically consummated.

Publicity is a great purifier because it sets in action the forces of public opinion, and in this country public opinion controls the courses of the nation

The peril of this Nation is not in any foreign foe! We, the people, are its power, its peril, and its hope.

The greater the artist, the greater the doubt.

For my best poems were all written when I felt the worst. When I was happy, I didn't write anything.

The past has been a mint Of blood and sorrow. That must not be True of tomorrow.

Listen to your inner-voice: Surround yourself with loving, nurturing people. Fall in love with your art and find yourself. Music is the great communicator.

Keep your hand on the plow. Hold on.

Worship leaders, let's choose to praise rather than perform when leading.

Politics can be the graveyard of the poet. And only poetry can be his resurrection.

Blues had the pulse beat of the people who keep on going.

Fixing our thoughts on Jesus requires time, for true reflection cannot happen with a glance. No one can see the beauty of the country if he hurries through it on the interstate.

The key to ongoing effectiveness [in evangelism] is a perpetual freshness in your growing knowledge of Him.

Humor is when the joke's on you but hits the other fellow first -- before it boomerangs.

Out of love, No regrets-- Though the goodness Be wasted forever. Out of love, No regrets-- Though the return Be never.

They [the police] learned something from them Harlem riots. They used to beat your head right in public, but now they only beat it after they get you down to the station house.

We build our temples for tomorrow, strong as we know how, and we stand on top of the mountain, free within ourselves.

Money and art are far apart.

When poems stop talking about the moon and begin to mention poverty, trade unions, color, color lines and colonies, somebody tells the police.

Gossip involves saying behind a person’s back what you would never say to his or her face. Flattery means saying to a person’s face what you would never say behind his or her back.

I am the darker brother. They send me to eat in the kitchen when company comes, but I laugh, and eat well, and grow strong.

Hang yourself, poet, in your own words. Otherwise, you are dead.

The liberty of the press is not confined to newspapers and periodicals. It necessarily embraces pamphlets and leaflets.

While over Alabama earth These words are gently spoken: Serve and hate will die unborn. Love and chains are broken.

Faith has played a major role in my life. Whenever I feel an obstacle is too great, I can always go to God in prayer and He'll help me through it.

Dissents are appeals to the brooding spirit of the law, to the intelligence of another day.

Women's intuition is the result of millions of years of not thinking.

Stilled legendary depth: It was as deep as England. It held Pike too immense to stir, so immense and old That past nightfall I dared not cast.

Life is a big sea full of many fish. I let down my nets and pulled. I'm still pulling.

Everybody should take each other as they are, white, black, Indians, Creole. Then there would be no prejudice, nations would get along.

Blessed are they who have the gift of making friends,for it is one of God's best gifts.

How can there be too many typefaces in the world? Are there too many songs, too many books, too many places to go?

We are all strong-willed, forceful personalities and the President encourages vigorous debate.

There is no better way to know us Than as two wolves, come separately to a wood.