J. B. Matthews Quotes

I'm glad some people have that faith. I don't have that faith. If there is a God, a caring God, then we have to figure he's done an extraordinary job of making a very cruel world.

You don't say, like the Bush crowd, 'I got this guy over here and I don't like him and I'm gonna get him, whether you back me or not.'

So the story goes, so I'm told The people he knew were Less than golden hearted Gamblers and robbers Drinkers and jokers, all soul searchers Like you and me

I'm not just gonna go after the black Jesse Jackson they all want to make fun of, but I know the wrong people are gonna laugh at that. I don't want to play to that crowd. I don't.

And then there's Israel - a lot of people support Israel, and it's important to Israel to take out Iraq. So it's all mixed together. It's a combination of motives.

My audience is much more center right, or centrist.

If you hold on tight to what you think is your thing you may find you re missing all the rest

I believe in love, but believe it's love that keeps beating me down.

I'm only this far, and only tomorrow leads my way.

Take what you can from your dreams, Make them as real as anything...

I'm not going to change my ways just to please you, or appease you.

My songs are like a three-legged dog - you have to get to know them to have any love for them.

I fear that our true motivation is about oil and our own flailing economy; about the failure to destroy Al Qaeda and about revenge.

Don't lose the dreams inside your head They'll only be there until you're dead Dream

We've got to recognize that when we march into Iraq, we're setting up the card tables in front of every university in the Arab world, the Islamic world, to recruit for al-Qaida.

You don't know whether he's thought through how this is going to affect the Middle East.

Sarah Palin is an empty vessel ready to be filled by ideology that she doesn't even understand, and that is really scary. Nothing is more frightening than an empty vessel in power.

Then the administration tied it in to the regional dispute between Israel and its enemies, as if that's about international terrorism. No, it's not.

We've always had a dual role in the region - friend of Israel, and honest broker. We've given up the honest broker role completely.

I don't know why his lawyers didn't tell him, 'You don't have to answer any questions about your private life, Mr. President. Let them sue you. Take the heat. You don't have to answer.'

It doesn't serve an American interest. It really doesn't really serve Israeli interests - it serves the interests of the political party that's getting the votes of the settlers on the West Bank.

I can't believe that we would lie in our graves wondering if we had spent our living days well. I can't believe that we would lie in our graves dreaming of things that we might have been.

Right now, the old guys, the old farts, if you will, are still running the show, and the women haven't gotten their place yet at all.

While we may not mind being used, we resent deeply being made to feel discarded.

No matter how dark the night, somehow the sun rises once again and all shadows are chased away.

For me, in songwriting, I have a route I can take. Maybe there's some forks, I can go this way, this way. But I know those roads. I still have the experience behind me.

I don't sense an [Barack] Obama party. I think politics is transactional for him.

The single most important route of success is persistence - never, ever give up!

I am truly an angel investor and I'am not a passive investor.As a passive investor, I am awful because I can not put funding into a company and leave it to other people.

Who kept the faith and fought the fight; The glory theirs, the duty ours.

My, I felt this thrill going up my leg. I mean, I don't have that too often.

The smallest thing, well done, becomes artistic.

One well-cultivated talent, deepened and enlarged, is worth one hundred shallow faculties.

Unless a man has trained himself for his chance, the chance will only make him ridiculous.

As frost, raised to its utmost intensity, produces the sensation of fire, so any good quality, overwrought and pushed to excess, turns into its own contrary.

The petty cares, the minute anxieties, the infinite littles which go to make up the sum of human experience, like the invisible granules of powder, give the last and highest polish to a character.

I'm partly obsessed by aging gracefully.

Some might tell you there's no hope in hand Just because they feel hopeless But you don't have to be a thing like that You be a ship in a bottle set sail

Criminals are opportunists. If you've got a booming market, they're going to get away with more fraud.

Look, Here are we, On this starry night staring into space, And I must say, I feel as small as dust, Lying down here...

John Paul II spoke to the commoner and to the king, to the tyrant and to the democrat in that same language of freedom.

You and me have a better time than most can dream of, better than the best.

Funny the way it is, not right or wrong, somebody's heart is broken, and it becomes your favorite song.

Republicans woke up Sunday with an undeniable reality. Donald Trump's the clear front-runner now for their party's nomination. Trump, celebrated, of course, his big win in South Carolina.

The moon is quite a show off given the chance. The stars make a sound when they shine so bright. Water so blue and so black.

I don't want to die, obviously, but really, the wonder of life is amplified by the fact that it ends.

I hope that just what I sing about and how I relate to my audience is as much of a political statement as I need to make.

We have to be active about kindness and about peace. I've always fantasized that it would be great if there was a Department of Peace.

I'm a fairly tormented artist, and I'm less willing to indulge myself in self-pity, outside of songwriting.

With hard work and focus dreams do come true.