J.B. Phillips Quotes

The surest way to get what you need is to communicate.

Twins have a special bond. They feel safer with each other than with their peers.

Marriage is a big adjustment for anyone - male or female. There is no guarantee that a person who has become set in his or her ways can successfully make that transition.

[to a teenage girl] Resolve to be economically independent before you marry anyone.

Staying in a marriage without love is like serving a life sentence with an incompatible cell mate.

I believe if two people want to commit to each other, God bless 'em.

A man who doesn't make you feel special, wanted or important would make a very poor husband.

Do not jump the gun because of gossip.

"Great guys" can make great husbands.

Much as we might wish it, looks don't always last forever. That's why, if you're looking for a long-term relationship, it's extremely important to take into consideration qualities that will last.

The truth taught by Jesus Christ is the right way to live.

The Space Shuttle will stop directly below the Space Station and Sergei and I will be looking out two different windows looking straight down at the Space Shuttle.

Traditionally, songwriters can't sing. And that holds true in my case, also.

No amount of anxiety or worry is going to make any difference to anything that's going to happen anyway, so why let yourself feel so heavy?

Should and should not's are the furthest form or non-reality there is even the best scientists can't track what does.

Happy the Man, who void of Cares and Strife, In Silken, or in Leathern Purse retains A Splendid Shilling: He nor hears with Pain New Oysters cry'd, nor sighs for chearful Ale

Little pains In a due hour employ'd great profit yields.

My galligaskins, that have long withstood The winter's fury, and encroaching frosts, By time subdued (what will not time subdue!), A horrid chasm disclosed.

Ah, the relationships we get into just to get out of the ones we are not brave enough to say are over.

You can imagine what a trip this is for a Jewish girl from Great Neck-I get to win an Academy Award and meet Elizabeth Taylor at the same time.

Her life was like running on a treadmill or riding on a stationary bike; it was aerobic, it was healthy, but she wasn't going anywhere.

Remember to negotiate thickness as well as height on the lettering of your name.

I'm an actor first and foremost; it's my first love and passion.

If I stay in action, I won't live in fear.

If one can create a purposeful, meaningful life then there's no room for drugs or alcohol. It's not on the list anymore.

Or maybe it's time to broaden out some of the African civil wars?

Climate ... models bear about as much relation to reality as astrology.

Thousands of alienated young Muslims, most of them born and bred here but who regard themselves as an army within, are waiting for an opportunity to help to destroy the society that sustains them.

No one has a human right to hide from justice behind a veil.

After eight years in government, Mr Blair has precious little to show for his ambitious plans to heal the divisions in society.

Find something you like and use it often

Do the IMPRACTICAL so that God can do the IMPOSSIBLE!

If you get lost, you can always be found.

I've just been recording mostly acoustic stuff, drums, and sax, and electric guitar. I'm just still writing songs and what not.

Those who help a child help humanity with an immediateness which no other help given to human creature in any other stage of human life can possibly give again.

The man, who has begun to live more seriously within, begins to live more simply without.

The lives of men who have been always growing are strewed along their whole course with the things they have learned to do without.

It is good for us to think that no grace or blessing is truly ours till we are aware that God has blessed some one else with it through us.

As you emphasize your life, you must localize and define it... you cannot do everything.

There is a necessary limit to our achievement, but none to our attempt.

Greatness is not so much a certain size as a certain quality in your life.

Heaven is not to sweep our truths away, but only to turn them till we see their glory, to open them till we see their truth, and to unveil our eyes till for the first time we shall really see them.

Never be afraid to bring the transcendent mysteries of our faith, Christ's life and death and resurrection, to the help of the humblest and commonest of human wants.

No man ever yet thought whether he was preaching well without weakening his sermon.

Heaven does not make holiness, but holiness makes heaven.

Only the soul that with an overwhelming impulse and a perfect trust gives itself up forever to the life of other men, finds the delight and peace which such complete self-surrender has to give.

Society does not exist for itself, but for the individual; and man goes into it, not to lose, but to find himself.

The Saviour comes in the strength of righteousness. Righteousness is at the bottom of all things. Righteousness is thorough; it is the very spirit of unsparing truth.

Christianity knows no truth which is not the child of love and the parent of duty.

The essential tendency of life is toward happiness . . . . Optimism is the only true condition for a reasonable man.