J. F. Stone Quotes

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

We must have safe places where people can discuss and be treated. Forty-four million people are already dead from AIDS. What logic is there in not discussing the word?

The [tenth] amendment states but a truism that all is retained which has not been surrendered.

I enjoyed breaking down my matches, because wrestling fans really like to know what I'm actually thinking, and why certain things needed to happen at a certain time.

You have to challenge people to reconsider what is art, what is taste. Because it's someone's point-of-view.

You never know what even the bad situations will lead to, which I guess is true with anything in life.

I have a magnificent obsession. All I want to do is change the world ...make it a better place for this and future generations.

You attract the good and desirable with positive mental attitude. You repel them with negative mental attitude.

...that horrible moment of suspense when the artist shows one of his creations to strange eyes for the first time.

Men put me on a pedestal, then never come to visit.

Other than my marriage, the decision to get a Ph.D. was probably the best decision of my life.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

Love #music. It will #love you back.

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

The musicians one day are going to listen to me.

We...believe that art is religious, because it is one of man's highest aspirations. There is no such thing as pagan art, only good and bad art.

When a man is a mystery to himself you can hardly call him mysterious.

He (William Cort) had some desire to be successful, but it did not burn so strongly in him that he was prepared to overcome his character to achieve it.

Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much.

That's chess!" snapped Ron. "You've got to make some sacrifices!

That's the funny thing about America--the blessed thing. As many people as there are to hold you back, there are angels whose humanity makes up for all the others. I've had my share of angels.

Even if I could, I wouldn't. Scars can come in handy. I have one myself above my left knee that is a perfect map of the London Underground.

The question should be who do we want to be when we grow up, not what.

When you hand good people possibility, they do great things.

The snow was too light to stay, the ground too warm to keep it. And the strange spring snow fell only in that golden moment of dawn, the turning of the page between night and day.

Bleed me of art, and there won't be enough liquid left in me to spit! [Michelangelo Buonorotti]

My mom was a diabetic. Her sister was a diabetic, so I was already a candidate.

It's not the teaching, it's the learning.

Allowing myself to love God completely has obviously shed light on my self-love because he loves me more than I could ever love myself.

It's always harder to be the one who's left behind than the one who leaves.

In any leadership position, you're always going to be disappointing somebody.

Some days I am the flower beneath the machine. And the machine rolls slowly on, blocking the sun, without a care for what it tramples beneath.

I'm terrible at horror movies, by the way. I get scared so easily.

Some people are just not meant to be in this world. It's just too much for them.

When I studied graphic design, I learned a valuable lesson: There's no perfect answer to the puzzle, and creativity is a renewable resource.

It's sad that people listen to music and decide how the singer should look.

If only the hat had mentioned a house for people who felt a bit queasy, that would have been the one for him.

The issue isn't, Am I good enough? No. The issue is, Do I not have any other choice? Will and desire don't matter. Ability doesn't matter. Need is the only thing that matters.