J. F. Stone Quotes

Easter is a time where we are reminded that conclusions in man's mind are beginnings in God's plan.

[A]ll mental disorders are in some sense passionate convictions about the situation of the self in the world.

You're a beautiful wreck.

We want greatness, but we prefer it tamed and on a leash short enough for us to control it, yet long enough to allow it to retain some remote yet diminished flavor of greatness.

Lies are like paper-Mache in a rain storm.

Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children

Trapped on a school bus for an hour each morning and each evening, she devoured book after book. She explored a hundred worlds, indifferent to her peers and the passing of the universe.

I want to touch you.''And if you did touch me, what then?''I would find a language of beginning.

I listened to the crashing thundering of a tiny tear tumbling like a wave down her beautiful face.

Are the returns on my journey equal to the length of the road behind me? And if not, have I realized the pressing need to surrender to God the road in front of me?

Oh that I had the opportunity to rethink so many of my decisions, for the pitfalls into which I have so frequently fallen were often dug with the shovel of those very decisions.

Never let the law interfere with justice.

Each step is more difficult than the last

There is very little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude.

My optimism? Where I grew up our principal cultural expression was the funeral. Whatever keeps me going, it isn't optimism.

Still shuddering, he collapsed atop her on a long, strangled groan. It sounded as if someone had just wrung out his soul.Ella knew precisely how he felt.

Even a goat got to be a goat." Esperança's comments about slaves during the triangular slave trade.

Blindness is a choice born of fear, nursed by complacency and groomed by comfort. And what I often don’t see in my blindness is that 'choice' evidences the existence of other options.

I told you growing starts from the inside first, honey, and in that way, you've been growing like wildfire.

What do you do?" I ask. "I live.""I live" is not an answer, until I think about it. Maybe it's the perfect answer.

It's going to happen whether you like it or not, ” he said quietly.The top of the book dropped to display Susan's wrinkled gaze. “What's that?”“Change, ” Rich said. “It's inevitable.

I have forged many things that I believe to be things of great beauty. Yet if God is not a part of them, they are entirely counterfeit and I have been robbed blind by the work of my own hands.

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If you need a gun to do it with, you aren't doing it right." Sheriff Bud Smith.

Justice, of course, was an elusive thing, very subjective in some ways, too often more of a concept than a reality, but without the pursuit of that ideal, where would humanity be?

Hormones, it seemed, we're making a much-delayed appearance in her life.Liv was horrified.

Dating' stressful. I'd have to dress up.

And I know I need to invite him over for dinner, because there's no question. This is serious.

Even the simplest tools can empower people to do great things

If God wanted us to use the metric system, He would have given us ten fingers and ten toes.

They put money into attack, by calling it defence.

Love as powerful as your mother's for you leaves it's own mark. To have been loved so deeply, even though the person who loved us is gone, will give us some protection forever.

Blood is power, and the heart consumed of one much loved is the most powerful thing of all. After all, what is love if you keep your heart?

Making the decision to have a child - it's momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking outside your body

Life is full of signs. The trick is to know how to read them. Ghosh called this heuristics, a method for solving a problem for which no formula exists.

So your High Priest and Sacerdote propose to kill Death.” Edroc

If it took me showing some warmth to get warmth in return, I'd do it.

The healing process can only truly begin when we are willing to remember.

You look around at the people in your life, one by one, choosing to hold on to the ones who make you stronger and better, and letting go of the ones who don't.

He couldn't be more than forty-five, but Murray Miles was stooped, old before his time. The mountains of Alberta had the ability to bend those who lived here.That, or it broke them.

Lovely high ceilings, ' I said. 'If you were very tall, you'd feel quite comfortable in here.

The rolling stone rolls echoing from rock to rock

HENDERSON, I LOVE YOUR NAME. I LOVE YOUR NOVEL. I LOVE YOUR FLANNEL SHIRTS, YOUR SMILE. I LOVE BENJAMIN FRANKLIN AND DINOSAURS AND VOLCANOES.

Trouble. Sweetheart. Sang. Don't. Don't slip away." He sniffed. I felt a droplet meeting my forehead.Gabriel was crying."I need you, " he whispered. "Comeback to me. I need you.

You're too sweet for your own damn good.

Your my Trouble

To destroy that which seeks to destroy me, God invites me to stand against it until it stands down and then falls down.

People are naturally hardworking but will stop working hard at anything if they learn from experience that their effort makes no difference.

Don't leave the instrument sitting in its case, my son. Play! Leave no part of your instrument unexplored. Why settle for 'Three Blind Mice' when you can play the 'Gloria'?

Its beauty stirs the imagination, and I wonder if the last refuge of all that is truly wild lies not on earth but in light.