J. F. Stone Quotes

Our victory is sure to come, and I can endure anything but recreancy to principle.

Improv is what helped me overcome the anxiety that I was feeling sometimes. It's the thing that pushes me to be present, and to keep moving through all of the what-ifs that go through my mind.

Now, we live in an age where we have so much information that we do tend to overload. The Greeks did too, though.

I wouldn't consider myself a so-called 'celebrity.' Arrrgh, for the love of God!

When the sun dies we will become one.

God did not create us to abandon us.

I mean, even when it's really simple, there's so much amazing beautiful creativity that can come out of that.

When I went to school, they told me literature was a rope I must use to climb out of the dark well of unknowing. Writers are the knots on the rope.

I'm actually the last person to ask about school. I kinda ducked out at 12, before all that stuff might have happened. I left school after sixth grade and was basically home-schooled after that.

I was a woman before I was an abolitionist. I must speak for the women.

Stand, you've been sitting much too long, there's a permanent crease in your right or wrong.

Perhaps all human progress stems from the tension between two basic drives: to have just what everyone else has and to have what no one has.

If you remember one thing from talking to me, remember this: I am just a girl who makes noises - and I'm incredibly lucky that people happen to like those noises.

I just told the whole truth and that felt really incredible and really scary.

Vegemite is pretty good if you've got the right spread of butter and you spread your Vegemite light. Sometimes people spread it too thick and it's not the right consistency for it to be what it is.

Vulnerability isn't a bad thing. Everyone's vulnerable and it only makes you human.

If I was just normally intelligent, I could probably get away with it - but I'm fiercely intelligent and that's threatening.

Perception is a prism, and reality is like shot silk - depends where the light hits.

We all can be only who we are, no more, no less.

Even celebrities, most people have a sense of humor. Most of the people we meet who we've done on the show, like it.

It strikes me as weird that a 25 year old man would even find a 16 year old attractive.

It would just be nice if everybody would be nice.

If I could be a doctor and save lives I would, but I can't so I sing songs.

The musicians one day are going to listen to me.

My weakness is dark chocolate. I carry little tins of it in my purse.

Love #music. It will #love you back.

I don't like listening to music that isn't real.

Most of us are inclined to look upon success as coming in some mysterious way through advantages that we do not have. Perhaps because we do have them, we don't see them. The obvious is often unseen.

That old question about whether, as a woman, you can be funny and attractive at the same time. Argh! I hate that question. Of course you can.

I'm interested, I suppose, in tortured power.

I can be whatever. I can wear shoes or don't wear shoes. I can tie my hair up or wear it down. It doesn't matter.

Investors are employees you can never hire. We made sure to pick investors that thought like us.

People grow. It's okay to grow. Some people find that difficult to grasp.

I feel so, so lucky. Lucky because of many things.

Never underestimate the repellent power of a negative mental attitude. It can prevent life's lucky breaks from benefiting you.

People started saying I was ignoring my country, making up stories about me. Ludicrous things, like that I throw tea on my assistants.

Develop inspirational dissatisfaction. Rearrange your attitudes and convert a failure of one day into success on another.

I eat right, I sleep, I work out, I'm happy. I have a beautiful family, nice friends. I choose the good things. I choose the happy, healthy things. I don't choose the bad, unhealthy, unhappy things.

People first. Technology second.

Writing a song is a personal thing, and you have to have a lot of trust to try things and not be embarrassed.

Celebrity is a pretty stunning thing. At first I was like 'They love me! Oh, I love them, too.' And suddenly, I was tap-dancing on my pedestal and it was whack! Facedown in the dirt.

The lessons I learned that were most important were the ones that hurt my feelings.

I’m not a brain surgeon, I’m not saving anyone from any life-threatening illnesses. But I get to tell stories, and that’s a pretty important task.

Every adversity has the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit.

The only country that hasn't liked my music is my own.

I'm happy people look at me as a role model.

Don't blame God for your lack of success.

Man's greatest power lies in the power of prayer.

People are still living in the moment, and they feel the passion of now.

The things that you know more about than you want to know are very useful.