J. Green Quotes
When you go to a great concert, you feel this arc, almost like the music of a well-chosen set takes you on this trip through emotions and through various forms of intellectual engagement.
There can be goodness without much intelligence - but it seems to me that perfect intelligence and perfect goodness must go together.
I've been doing a lot of learning from mistakes, first and foremost, and building off that.
I don't eat a lot of junk food anymore, but I sure remember it. I used to go through boxes of Little Debbies. I liked Star Crunch, and of course those oatmeal pies.
Every religion in the world has denounced every other religion as a fraud. That proves to me that they all tell the truth - about others.
I regard the rights of men and women equal. In Love's fair realm, husband and wife are king and queen, sceptered and crowned alike, and seated on the self-same throne.
Good, bad or indifferent, if you are not investing in new technology, you are going to be left behind.
What's so amazing about 'All in the Family' is sometimes an entire act was one camera shot. It was all about characters.
I do not believe anything comes by chance. I regard the present as the necessary child of a necessary past.
People are always going to go shopping. A lot of our effort is just: 'How do we make the retail experience a great one?'
Floor time is valuable. Our leadership isn't going to bring something up that's going to take up floor time and not be successful.
Roscoe Conkling was a man of superb courage. He not only acted without fear, but he had that fortitude of soul which bears the consequences of the course pursued without complaint.
A great man is a torch in the darkness, a beacon in superstition's night, an inspiration and a prophecy.
E-waste is the fastest growing waste stream in the United States and can pose serious environmental and health problems here and around the world when not handled properly.
Character is made of duty and love and sympathy, and, above all, of living and working for others.
What is it that distinguishes you and me from the lower animals - from the beasts? More, I say, than anything else, human sympathy - human sympathy.
'E.T.' was the movie that made me want to make movies in the first place, and it was the first movie that made me focus on writing instead of what happens in the movie.
Business owners should not have to choose between violating their faith and violating the law.
Our Heavenly Father is pleased when we don't compromise our faith and principles in times of desperation.
A prayer that must have a cannon behind it better never be uttered. Forgiveness ought not to go in partnership with shot and shell. Love need not carry knives and revolvers.
People don't do theology in a vacuum but in a community with other theological thinkers, where there's jealousy, vanity, hurt pride, all those things.
Beauty is not all there is of poetry. It must contain the truth. It is not simply an oak, rude and grand, neither is it simply a vine. It is both. Around the oak of truth runs the vine of beauty.
There's this shop in New York I go to it has bones and fossils and insects that are like works of art. I have a few on my wall.
I think friendship is more important than love, but that love that grows out of friendship is the very best of all.
Going through an illness and then death of a close friend has changed my attitudes to friendship enormously.
My father was a Presbyterian minister, working among the poor in West Virginia. He had taken what amounted to a vow of poverty when he accepted that call and so we never had much money.
I have a deep and passionate love of America. It is where I have always thought I would be happiest, and although I miss England desperately, I find that my heart definitely has its home over here.
Allowing for endless legal challenges or partisan political discussions is not the proper way to handle an issue that affects the entire scope of the environment and the economy.