J.D. Young Quotes

Particular bits of knowledge are nothing, because they are made up of what Dr. Robert Hutchins once called rapidly aging facts. Principles and method are everything.

but nothing can be taken back, not the leaves by the trees, the rain by the clouds. You want to take back the ugly thing you said, but some shrapnel remains in the wound, some mud.

Science already contained all that was necessary, if you just brought it out.

What is a miracle?--'Tis a reproach, 'Tis an implicit satire on mankind; And while it satisfies, it censures too.

Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

My two kids take a lot of my focus, which I'm grateful for.

Like our shadows, our wishes lengthen as our sun declines.

There is a great difference between a good physician and a bad one; yet very little between a good one and none at all.

Some wise being organized my system, and gave me my capacity, put into my heart and brain something that delights, charms, and fills me with rapture at the sound of sweet music.

Something comes along and you have to jump on and do it. You can't stop until it's done.

We just have to be ourselves.

You don't play a game or color a picture with a child to show your superiority. Rather, you choose to limit yourself so as to facilitate and honor that relationship.

There's a lot of frustration in trying to get music out when you're the only one who hears it, especially if you have something in your head that's not normal.

The purpose creates the machine.

I will be a missionary in a remote village at some point.

That's usually what happens with AC/DC: you make an album, and then you're on the road flat out. And the only time you ever get near a studio is generally after you've done a year of touring.

Night, sable goddess! from her ebon throne, In rayless majesty, now stretches forth Her leaden sceptre o'er a slumbering world.

Mother Goose, she's on the skids. Sure ain't happy, neither are the kids.

A boy and a girl started dating after he backed his car into hers. They met by accident.

No one is ever too old, too rich, too poor, to pray.

We need to make sure that joblessness never pays more than employment.

First inclination is to become a monk and leave the situation.

Everyone's light turns on at their own time.

I've got to pay $5 for gas just like everybody else.

Every accomplishment, every refined talent, every useful attainment in mathematics, music, and in all sciences, and art belong to the Saints.

I am not versed in production software. I have basic knowledge, but it ends there.

To find people who don't want anything is rare.

The principle of love within us is an attribute of the Deity, and it is placed within us to be dispensed independently according to our own will.

I got religion in the airport, my Lord. They caught me waiting on my baggage when I was bored.

And I would like current or future politicians to make sure every avenue of diplomacy, and what you have, are exhausted before sending young men and women off to death and serious injury.

Pity swells the tide of love.

"Pain has a way of clipping our wings and keeping us from being able to fly"... "And if left unresolved you can almost forget that you were ever created to fly in the first place."

Where, where for shelter shall the guilty fly, When consternation turns the good man pale?

I wanted to leave a mark on the world. Doesnt matter how big. I just wanted to make a mark in peoples lives.

The studio that we mix in is still in Chicago.

I felt like if I wasn't around, maybe my shot would be gone.

The arrival of the unforeseen reveals the depths of one's heart.

Our girls have need of such an example of graciousness, elegance, refinement, and spirituality.

As night to stars, woe lustre gives to man.

Take care of yourselves, and live as long as you can, and do all the good you can.

If you're a preacher, you talk for a living, so even if you don't make sense, you learn to make nonsense eloquently.

It is not the nature of love to force a relationship, but it is the nature of love to open the way.

Crying babies are like good intentions: Both should be carried out immediately!

Crying can bring relief, as long as you don't cry alone.

The longer one lives, the more mysterious life seems.

Saying just the right thing after a considerable, awkward pause is far less effective than saying the wrong thing with perfect timing. I'm telling you.

Poetry [is] more necessary than ever as a fire to light our tongues.

The man of wisdom is the man of years.

My father used to say: "Never suspect people, It's better to be deceived or mistaken, which is only human, after all, than to be suspicious, which is common."

Pause and remember - You are unique. You are special. Every mistake, trial and hardship has helped to sculpt your real beauty. Stop hating yourself and start appreciating and loving yourself!