J. Boone Quotes

If somebody I don't like gets in the crosshairs, I pull the trigger. But I don't hunt for them.

I don't think for a minute we went to Iraq for oil. It just so happened that it had oil. But I think we'll come out of the Iraqi situation with a call on their oil at market price.

I don't believe in a price on carbon, because the government is going to control it and they're going to fail.

You give the money where you want it.

Good is latent in every living thing and simply needs to be called into active expression through the gracious application of respect, sympathetic understanding, gentleness and love.

Every battle, every victory has been won!

So although women can do anything that men can't do, they can also do something that men can't do, and that is mother their children.

I fracked over 3,000 wells in my life and never had a problem with an aquifer.

We all have such common ways to identify with each other, and I think when you approach music in that organic way, it's almost indescribable how it connects human to human and heart to heart.

I grew up going to church three times a week in my family. It's been a center of my life.

I love it when people say, 'You're nothing like I thought you were going to be' - which always means, 'I like you so much more than I thought I was going to.

If you would learn the secret of right relations, look only for the divine in people and things, and leave all the rest to God.

My idea of good poetry is any dog doing anything.

Never forget that every living thing has a particular and needed job to do in the universal Plan and Purpose.

I started riding bikes when I was really young, but I stopped when I was 19 because my mother asked me too, so I stopped riding for 35 years and now I'm just addicted. It is my only addiction...

This may surprise you, but I was arrested in high school.

The movies television and music we used to produce created an image of America that the world envied... now the millions around the world call us the Great Satan - and with good cause.

When you hear a good traditional gospel song it makes you wanna go buy a three piece suit

When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

If there's anyone in my lifetime who deserves honor it is Billy Graham. I think he is the most significant figure since the apostles.

I hope a great young Reagan will emerge.

I've had death threats, if you can imagine.

... freedom isn't the absence of boundaries; it's the ability to operate successfully and happily within boundaries.

Freedom comes in individual packages.

A happy marriage isn't the easiest thing in the world to achieve, but it's much easier to come by than a happy but illicit affair.

But there was a difference between being stuck and choosing to stay. Between being found and finding yourself.

Love doesn't come with an on-off switch. It's made of too many threads of memory and hope and heartache that weave themselves into the very core of who you are.

Hope is possibly the only inexhaustible resource on earth.

It doesn't matter how great your shoes are if you don't accomplish anything in them.

We've lost a lot of years, but you can't lose love. Not real love. It stays locked inside you, ready for whenever you are strong enough to find it again.

You can’t have relationships if you’re not willing to open yourself up and lean on people as much as you want them to lean on you.

Her hands crept around his neck, tangling in his hair to keep him closer, even though she knew that beautiful boys with expiration dates couldn't be held, only borrowed for a time.

I think a lot of people are really scared right now. Not every person makes good choices, and sometimes, when people are scared, there are people who try to take advantage of that fear.

Pushing through fear was what eventually set you free.

Dreams shape the kind of human beings we become. Not having a dream gave me a smaller future and made me a smaller person.

The hardest part of changing things is knowing how much needs changing,

Things, and people, were always more beautiful when you were afraid to lose them.

But the people who mattered were the people you chose instead of the people who were yours by an accident of birth. Real family was heart as much as, if not more than, blood.

Family is always a mirror. You can hide from other people, you can even hide from yourself, but your family is going to reflect what you’re doing right back at you.

It took vulnerability to forge strength, the way true courage required fear.

I never said you had to like it. You have to accept it. No regret."-Clare Harding.

You're asking me to look into the future and give you guarantees. Magic isn't a recipe for baking cake.

Fighting to protect the people you cared for was one thing. Trusting someone you loved to fight for themselves took a different kind of strength and bravery.

It occurred to her that all the bad parts of life, the sad parts, the frightening ones, were meant to be offset by moments and memories like this. She had to be present in it, right here, right now.

Learning to love yourself is easier when you have someone to show you how.

Ultimately, wasn’t dance a whispered question? A story told through the position of a foot, the tilt of a head, the touch of a hand, the brush of an eye. A rite of passage. A claiming.

Which was worse, telling a person you loved them when you didn’t mean it? Or loving them and never telling them at all?

Is there a reason you look like you want to murder me?""Not particularly. You have that effect on people.

I've never been lost, but I was mighty turned around for three days once.

So many of the things she had found lately hadn't been precisely lost. But she wasn't found without them.