J.B. Morton Quotes

She says there are stories everywhere and that people who wait for the right one to come along before setting pen to paper end up with very empty pages.

Happiness in life is not a given, it must be seized.

But everyone's an expert with the virtue of hindsight . . . .

They say everyone needs something to love.

Oh, Grey, no one really likes keeping secrets. The only thing that makes a secret fun is knowing that you weren't supposed to tell it.

Oh, there was harm indeed for a young lady flattered by the brief attentions of a handsome man.

After all, it's the librarian's sworn purpose to bring books together with their one true reader.

While I wasn't certain how I felt about spiritualists, I was certain enough about the type of people who were drawn to them. Only people unhappy in the present seek to know the future.

But happiness ... happiness grows at our own firesides," she said. "It is not to be picked in strangers' gardens." ~ The House at Riverton

We're all unique, just never in the ways we imagine.

Sometimes, Edie, a person's feelings aren't rational. At least, they don't seem that way on the surface. You have to dig a little deeper to understand what lies at the base

when you love someone you’ll do just about anything to keep them.

When reason sleeps, the monsters of repression will emerge.

Rejection is a cancer, Edie. It eats away at a person.

Time had a way of moulding people into shapes they themselves no longer recognised.

...which fairy-tale princess ever chose her maid over her prince?

To succeed inside a political party, one must cultivate an ability to sit still and remain polite while foolish people speak nonsense

The mind can absorb no more than the seat can endure.

One big reason is better than many little reasons.

Keep a secure home base.

Never miss a political meeting if you think there's the slightest chance you'll wish you'd been there.

Don't treat good guys like you treat bad guys.

A stable movement requries a healthy, reciprocal I.O.U. flow among its participants. Don't keep a careful tally.

A prompt, generous letter of thanks can seal a commitment which otherwise might disappear when the going gets rough.

The test of moral ideas is moral results.

Promptly report your action to the one who requested it.

I’ve always felt that music should be a normal part of the experience that surrounds people.

Every attempt to explain human behavior, especially the irrational, must as a matter of course end in simplification.

In these anxious times many of us are less astonished that reason is ever suspended than that it should ever prevail, even during the briefest of intervals.

The true secret of success in the investment and speculative world is not so much which good securities to buy, but rather which investments to avoid.

I just get really defensive as soon as anyone comes near my personal life. I made a decision early on that it's strictly off-limits. No exceptions.

Catholicism played such a huge part in my life, I would not have survived without my faith.

It's important to have masculine energy around your child.

I think once you're a mother to one, you're a mother to them all.

I think anybody who has been abused as a kid - and I was abused as a kid, by various people - will say it's irrational because violence is irrational.

I respond very well to well-written material and women who have had an effect on society, something tragic or monumental has happened to them.

I like to stretch my acting muscles.

I am proud of what I've done.

The more visionary the idea, the more people it leaves behind.

I could be equally happy on a film set or in the middle of a field.

I hate the analyzing thing. People say, 'Why do you think your character did that? I don't know. I'm not an analyst, and they're not in psychotherapy. Unless it's a film where they're in therapy.

I was physically abused and I retaliated.

Coming back into television, I was very, very wary about committing to anything that could potentially take a long time. I don't mind movies, but I was nervous of television.

I'm an actor. That's what I'm gifted at. It's what makes me breathe.

My mind boggles at the amount of violence inflicted upon children in today's society.

The moral and intellectual character of the Africans is widely different in different nations.

I have always maintained that if a program is to be successful, it must... be voluntary... based on need and must not be financed through a payroll tax.

Because desperate people cling to hope like sailors to their wreaks.

Those who live in memories are never really dead.

It'll be a change, " says Marcus. "Something different.""Not a mystery."Marcus laughs. "No. Not a mystery. Just a nice safe history."Ah, my darling. But there is no such thing.