J. B. Hughes Quotes

Whiskey just naturally likes me but beer likes me better.

I will not take "but" for an answer.

Let America be America again. Let it be the dream it used to be.

Maitre D' : I appreciate your understanding. Ferris: Don't think twice. It's understanding that makes it possible for people like us to tolerate a person like yourself.

Peace We passed their graves: The dead men there, Winners or losers, Did not care. In the dark They could not see Who had gained The victory.

If you want to grow in writing songs that will express the wonders of God, immerse yourself in God.

Peter Jones's is a vital public service. He reminds us that while we shouldn't live in the past, we are wiser and stronger when we live with it.

People are not good at expressing their frustration. The best way to listen to the customer is through metrics.

Remember there's always a voice saying the right thing to you somewhere if you'll only listen for it.

I'm the kind of person that needs to think things through. But when I know what I want to do, I really know.

Not disabilities at all - more Abilities.

The Bible opens and closes with a wedding.

Why wait for a call when you have a command?

A Gustave Courbet portrait of a trout has more death in it than Rubens could get in a whole Crucifixion.

One gets tired of the role critics are supposed to have in this culture: It's like being the piano player in a whorehouse; you don't have any control over the action going on upstairs.

Political stress is always apt to shrink the private arena and attach it on to the public

The travel and tourism industry, it's just a huge part of our economy.

The Constitution is what the judges say it is.

Only the Lord knows how many children lose heart because their fathers have hard days.

The Bush administration doesn't particularly like public participation. It makes them look bad.

I've known rivers: I've known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human veins. My soul has grown deep like the rivers.

One of the great difficulties about being a member of a minority race is that so many kindhearted, well-meaning bores gather around to help.

The wolf is living for the earth.

But who is stronger than death? Me , evidently .

It is not work that kills men, it is worry. Work is healthy; you can hardly put more upon a man that he can bear. Worry is rust upon the blade.

The calm, Cool face of the river, Asked me for a kiss

The greek word for temptation means to test, to try, to prove.

This morning I paid seventy cents for two little old dried-up slivers of bacon and one cockeyed egg. It took me till noon to get my appetite back.

I don't dare start thinking in the morning. I don't dare start thinking in the morning. If I thought thoughts in bed, Them thoughts would bust my head-- So I don't dare start thinking in the morning.

Christmas began in the heart of God. It is complete only when it reaches the heart of man.Why wait for a call when you have a command?

Both of them were very good and kind - the one who went to church and the one who didn't. And no doubt from them I learned to like both Christians and sinners equally well.

Popular in our time, unpopular in his. So runs the stereotype of rejected genius.

Most musicians remain poor. But the music that they make, even if it does not bring them millions, gives millions of people happiness.

My seeking has been to explain and illuminate the Negro condition in America and obliquely that of all human kind.

It is the nature of carnivores to get power and then, having disposed of their enemies, to deploy the emollient powers of Great Art to make themselves look like herbivores.

If I thought, had any idea, that I'd ever be a slave again, I'd take a gun an' jus end it all right away. Because you're nothing but a dog. You're not a thing but a dog.

Yes, he is not unused to playing in midfield, but at the same time he's not used to playing there either.

In my case, I learned that although God loves us, he doesn't grant us immunity from the consequences of our choices.

Those who say 'you only live once' have never read a book.

It is the essence of the institutions of liberty that it be recognized that guilt is personal and cannot be attributed to the holding of opinions or to mere intent in the absence of overt acts.

I fundamentally believe that people have a genuine desire to be positively engaged in the world around them.

A taste of righteousness can be easily perverted into an overweening sense of self-righteousness and judgmentalism.

A crucified Savior is not well served by self-pleasing, self-indulging people.

I have been treated as a freak, rather like the fat lady at the circus.

The struggle I went through has value.

I want to be a science teacher. My friends asked me why, but I'm intrigued by it and I'm quite good at science at school.

I'll skate on concrete if I have to. I'm not worried about how fast the ice is. I'm worried about how fast I can go on the ice.

It has seemed to me that most people are generally good, in every race and in every country where I have been.

To create a market for your writing you have to be consistent, professional, a continuing writer - not just a one-article or a one-story or a one-book man.

Though you may hear me holler, And you may see me cry-- I'll be dogged, sweet baby, If you gonna see me die.