J.D. Young Quotes

Some for renown, on scraps of learning dote, And think they grow immortal as they quote.

if only these treasures were not so fragile as they are precious and beautiful.

Long marriages have ended in ruin over tiny and insignificant grievances that were never properly aired and instead grew into a brittle barnacle of hatred.

Most pleasures, like flowers when gathered die.

I totally have no other talent and I would be totally out of work if I did anything else.

Faith is not reason's labour, but repose.

Imagination is my best friend.

Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.

The intricacy and the inherent beautiful fragility of the human soul is such that it is uniquely damaged and only God knows how to heal it, and it's going to take time.

Possessions and concessions are not often what they seem, they drag you down and load you down in disguise of security.

A friend is not only someone who you can confide in, it is someone who can mirror the trust you have shown by confiding in you as well.

I have so many opinions about everything it just comes out during my music. It's a battle for me. I try not to be preachy. That's a real danger.

There was a band playing in my head, And I felt like getting high

Love and only love will endure. Hate is everything you think it is. Love and only love will break it down.

People who agree with you already agree with you -- you don't change peoples minds.

When people start asking you to do the same thing over and over again, that's when you know you're way too close to something that you don't want to be near.

It's not the average people that come to my show.

I don't know how to be a rapper. I just know how to be me.

Lust comes creeping through the night to feed on hearts of suburban wives who learned to pretend when they met their dreams end.

Surfers are members of a different race of people from the man in the street

I am succeeding because people are talking about how they would do it better.

Let us preach righteousness, and practice it. I do not wish to preach what I do not practice.

A young man of pleasure is a man of pains.

I don't know if I'll find the cinnamon girl. I think I already did, but I'm still singing, who knows.

I want no part of making any contribution whatsoever to the despair which eventually follows downbeat thinking.

There is no brilliant single stroke that is going to transform the water into wine or straw into gold.

Remember, a chip on the shoulder is a sure sign of wood higher up.

Selfishness and self-absorption are deadly charm-exterminators.

Sailing heart-ships through broken harbors out on the waves of the night, still the searcher must ride the dark horse racing alone in his fright.

I've always been scared to death of pain - afraid, even, to think of it.

A sack that can contain a person's greed...doesn't exist in this world. If your hearts not content, no matter how much you put in the sack, it's never enough.

Eight hours work, eight hours sleep, and eight hours recreation - Brigham Young

I think that most creative fiction involves the transformational process, whether it is Dickens or Dostoyevsky and the writer in some sense is expressing their own journey through such a wilderness.

A friend is worth all hazards we can run.

The commercialization of sport is the democratization of sport.

Can't go on singing the same theme, 'cause baby, can't you see, we've got everything going on? Every time you go away, you take a piece of me with you.

The world does not owe men a living, but business, if it is to fulfill its ideal, owes men an opportunity to earn a living.

I have my own definition of minimalism, which is that which is created with a minimum of means.

The continuous invention of new ways of observing is man's special secret of living.

The journey is the destination. The process you're in is the goal. Success is never defined by the outcome but by the process.

This is the reason why the doctrine of plurality of wives was revealed, that the noble spirits who are waiting for tabernacles might be brought forth

It is useless, sisters, for you to attempt the duties of your exalted callings . . . without the constant companionship of the Spirit of God.

You have a Happiness Switch in you that you can switch on at any time. All you have to do is stop switching it off in order to blackmail yourself or others.

And I said - Styx - as a musical group it is our place to reflect the light that is shining on us back onto this place and say - this is where so much great stuff started.

Do not make the mistake of holding your idea close to your chest… Submit it to the criticism of the judicious.

Drop the whole subject and put it out of your mind and let your subconscious do its thing.

The problem with memory is that is changes whatever it touches. It is never that accurate. As a result, I end up modifying and revising my own experiences. It's myth making.

But fate ordains that dearest friends must part.

The city of angels? It's the city of devils. The city of smiling cobras.

Proposition VIII. When two Undulations, from different Origins, coincide either perfectly or very nearly in Direction, their joint effect is a Combination of the Motions belonging to each.