J.D. Roth Quotes

Stick your head above the crowd and eventually somebody will throw a rock at it.

My work is giving space - learning of its way and being in its service at the same time. We each have responsibility to express ourselves. And in this expression is the key to our healing.

Nothing says 'dropping out of society' like learning the banjo.

You chose us. Now we have to choose you.

Human reason can excuse any evil.

I could never hurt him enough to make his betrayal stop hurting. And it hurts, in every part of my body.

It isn’t right to wish pain on other people just because they hurt me first.

A brave man acknowledges the strength of others.

No matter how long you train someone to be brave, you never know if they are or not until something real happens.

I am selfish. I am brave.

I might be in love with you." He smiles a little. "I'm waiting until I'm sure to tell you, though.

This is what you know about someone you have to hate: he charges you with his crime and castigates himself in you.

Everything dictated silence and self-control but I couldn't restrain myself and spoke my mind.

That our world is so massive that it is completely out of our control, that we cannot possibly be as large as we feel.

The opinions of others cannot damage you.

It's strange how time can make a place shrink, make its strangeness ordinary.

You have a conscience, and a conscience is a valuable attribute, but not if it begins to make you think you were to blame for what is far beyond the scope of your responsibility.

Knowledge is power. Power to do evil...or power to do good. Power itself is not evil. So knowledge itself is not evil.

Fear tends to manifest itself much more quickly than greed, so volatile markets tend to be on the downside. In up markets, volatility tends to gradually decline.

She has been to the compound before. She remembered this hallway. She knows about the initiation process. My mother was Dauntless.

I didn't know that idiocy caused people to just start spontaneously bleeding from the nose.

Looking at her is like waking up.

Pride blinds people to the truth of what they are.

So small as to be negligible. It's strange, but there's something in that thought that makes me feel almost...free.

Who cares about everyone? What about me?

You know, the best thing you can say about a horror film is, 'Don't see it.'

Ultimately it doesn't matter whether you go forwards or backwards: you need to live your life as well as you can.

Today you will choose your factions. Until this point you have followed your parents’ paths, your parents’ rules. Today you will find your own path, make your own rules.

I think horror should never be safe, whether it's violent or non violent.

An artist gives. Gives visually, gives through courses, or with free advice, through generosity of spirit and through a need to share.

I have no tattoos. There's nothing I've even been that into to get a tattoo of it.

What is important to me is that people know I respect the business of making movies.

I'm sick of doing bad things and liking it and then wondering what's wrong with me. I want it to be over. I want to start again.

Anytime you're the first to speak out against something, there's going to be a backlash.

I've always been fascinated by the idea that there's no such thing as evil; it's all in your point of view. To one group a suicide bomber is the antichrist and to one he's a hero.

Faced with a choice, do both.

I grew up on radio, not TV.

In the United States, you can put on a cowboy hat and join the country-western neighborhood. If you're down below 14th Street in New York City, that's bohemian; that's left-wing.

Somebody asked me the question not too long ago: 'Dave, do you think the music business has turned corrupt.' I said: 'Absolutely not - it has always been corrupt.'

My ambition is to further create a signature sound, a signature spirit, that makes some kind of contribution to music in general.

I write fiction and I'm told it's autobiography, I write autobiography and I'm told it's fiction, so since I'm so dim and they're so smart, let them decide what it is or it isn't.

Sometimes,” he says, sliding his arm across my shoulders, “people just want to be happy, even if it’s not real.

Insurgent, he says. Noun. A person who acts in opposition to the established authority, who is not necessarily regarded as a belligerent.

I am his, and he is mine, and it has been that way all along.

Just like those who are incurably ill, the aged know everything about their dying except exactly when.

"You die, I die too.” Tobias looks over his shoulder at me. “I asked you not to do this. You made your decision. These are the repercussions."

I love Tris the Divergent, who makes decisions apart from faction loyalty, who isn’t some faction archetype. But the Tris who’s trying as hard as she can to destroy herself … I can’t love her.

Sleep,” he says. “I'll fight the bad dreams off if they come to get you.” “With what?” “My bare hands, obviously.

We live in an age in which the imagination of the novelist is helpless against what he knows he is going to read in tomorrow's newspaper.

Actually we did not have the feelings we said we had until we spoke them--at least I didn't; to phrase them was to invent them and own them.