J. B. Matthews Quotes
In many instances, we are much better at fixing our mistakes after we've made them. In some situations, it is easier to sweep things under the rug and forget about them.
People are not very pro-active in general, I think, because we are too busy rushing blindly towards our own goals.
When I was a kid growing up in New York, I was pretty unaware of racism. I think when we're young - before we lose our innocence - we're sort of unaware of the more flawed qualities of each other.
I don't touch electric guitars. It's just not my thing - I stick with acoustic guitars only.
I have always been drawn to percussion and drums, to bass and piano, in music much more then I am drawn to the guitar and the other lead instruments.
I feel that I have worked my whole life to get to the point where I should have a good understanding of women.
It is now becoming clear that everything can - and probably did - come from nothing.
I don't think I'm stubborn. I just focus on the task at hand and do what it takes. Persistence is the single most important thing for success.
The easiest way for me to lose interests is to know too much of what I want to say before I begin.
It is not, of course, the subject that is or isn't dull, but the quality of attention that we do or do not pay to it. Dull subjects are those we have failed.
What lasting progress was ever made in social reformation, except when every step was insured by appeals to the understanding and the will?
Talking, is a digestive process which is absolutely essential to the mental constitution of the man who devours many books.
God has so framed us as to make freedom of choice and action the very basis of all moral improvement, and all our faculties, mental and moral, resent and revolt against the idea of coercion.
The fullest instruction, and the fullest enjoyment are never derived from books, till we have ventilated the ideas thus obtained in free and easy chat with others.
With the "civilized" person contentment is a myth. From the cradle to the grave they are forever longing and striving after something better, an indefinable something, some new object yet unattained.
I know in my mindI would leave you nowIf I had the strength toI would leave you upTo your own devicesWill you not talkCan you take pityI don't ask muchBut won't you speakPlease.
A guy and a girl can be just friends, but at one point or another, they will fall for each other...Maybe temporarily, maybe at the wrong time, maybe too late, or maybe forever
Is it easy? Usually not. But you don't forgive people for their benefit. You do it for your benefit.
take what you can from your dreamsMake them real as anythingIt takes the work out of the courage
The happiest people don’t bother about whether life is unfair. They just concentrate on what they have.
If we can become still and open-minded we might all feel that unseen hand on our shoulder, letting us know we are not alone.
If we an become still and open-minded, we might all feel the unseen comforting hand on our shoulder letting us know we are not alone.
Emma hung up and hugged her pillow tight to her chest. He shouldn't be making her feel this special and desired. He was just a friend. Right, just a friend. She wasn't even fooling herself anymore.
(Kaylee) Tell me I'm pretty, Wash.(Wash) Were I unwed I would take you in a manly fashion.(kaylee) Because I'm pretty?(Wash) Because you're pretty.
Staffers tend to mimic their bosses, to take their key from them.
He was making the inevitable pivot from critic to manager.
He was experienced enough to spot the downside of doing the right thing.
Im not going to change my ways, just to please you or appease you, inside a crowd five billion proud willing to punch it out, right, wrong, weak strong, ashes to ashes all fall down.
He had to die someday too. He might do it on sheets with a six-hundred-plus thread count, but he'd die just the same. Death wouldn't forget about him.
The first thing you lose when you die is your motor skills.
Historically, the coupling of president and Speaker has been a tricky one that encourages a choreography both quick-footed and wary
Haslam leaves us in no doubt what we are supposed to make of Matthews' mental world: this is gibberish and nothing more.
The French revolution, he concluded, had not produced any new principles of truths, merely a mass of examples of how things could go wrong.
If history is written by the victors, conspiracy theory is typically written by the losers, and there were few greater losers in the revolution than the French church and especially the Jesuits.
James Tilly Matthews was not a prophet. He was a gifted, perhaps fragile individual who suffered intensely, and for little if any reward.
Apologizing does not always mean you're wrong and the other person is right. It just means you value your relationship more than your ego.
All the dreams I'd allowed myself to imagine were nothing but pages swept away by the wind.
The Russian people were just like us. They were victims of their own government. Ronald Reagan
Love should not have limits but you have to know that our actions have consequences.
Why should we remain innocent of what lurks in the shadows? How can we live in the world if we don't understand how dark and brutal it can be?
