J. C. Read Quotes
On the way out, I hug Mum, holding her close. 'Thank you, ' I whisper. 'For dinner - and for everything.'Mum smiles and strokes my cheek. 'There's nothing to thank me for.
Rain falls on the just and the unjust alike.
In order to remain undead, I must steal the life force of someone whose fate matters less to me than my own.' I've always supposed that Wall Street traders utter essentially the same sentence.
Enlightenment is achieved only when, in addition to knowing what an author says, you know what he means and why he says it.
If the teaching of Christ were a law, it would not be a gospel {glad tiding}, but a sad tiding.
The Gospel does not say, "you must do good works." Rather, it fashions us into human beings, into creatures who cannot help serve God and fellow human beings. Without a doubt, a precious effect!
But, really, are there any guys out there who aren’t jerks? I don’t even know any grown-up men who aren’t jerks.
Few people actually read. Instead, everyone likes pretending they read. If we spent as much time reading as we say we do, we'd be grossly overweight and depressed.
Another case for the dumbness of reading, however, is that books do not contain answers, but rather pose more questions. And asking questions makes you look dumber, not sma
The queers could almost pass for the same species as the straights.
We all tell our stories the way we want to. And sometimes those stories have nothing to do with reality.
Hats, like first husbands in my experience, are usually a mistake.
We take creative license with the fictional narratives that become our memories. Anthologized, these are the tales that become the story of your life.
we accept fictions as fictions, as things that might be true in their world, if not quite in ours.
When asking God for direction, ask Him to give you ears to hear it and the will and strength to follow it. Say, “God show me what to do and enable me to do it.
The media's job is not to inform you
George, I know you’re tired. But President Lincoln, he didn’t free us to be lazy and no good. He freed us to work hard and improve ourselves.”-George’s Grandmother.
Please note, I am not suggesting that illicit drugs are required to break down social barriers.
Now, Joyce being Joyce, he has about five different purposes, one not being enough for genius.
But it’d be nice to have someone who cared about me, someone I could talk toabout anything, someone who’d tell me I was really special.
Potentially, anyone writing on the Web can reach a global audience. In practice, hardly anyone ever does.
Eliminate the overwhelming cost of phantom wars and fools' errands, and humankind might begin to balance its books. After all, its only debts are to itself.
In fact, there is nothing so easily remade as our definitions of ourselves.
For a second, I see into the future: she's old and grey, she has senile dementia and can't remember my name. The thought pretty much breaks my heart in two.
Kayn began to speak as if she were reading his obituary. “I can see the paper now
Uncertainty is as good a way as any to kill a story.
An indefinable something is to be done in a way nobody knows how at a time nobody knows when that will accomplish nobody knows what.
the focus one finds in the grammar books is on the wrong forms, on forms detached from the underlying (or overarching) form that must be in place before any technical terms can be meaningful or alive