J.H. Lee Quotes

There is not a person in this courtroom who has never told a lie, who has never done an immoral thing, and there is no man living who has never looked upon a woman without desire.

And truth is malleable, something to be bent or stretched or made to disappear, but direct lies always find the path back to the one who tells them.

Lying is the new truth.

We were made to be mirrors perfectly reflecting God's goodness, but with sin that mirror fractured and the reflection is distorted.

[To] Immediately...turn to our spirit and exercise our spirit to contact God...practically means that we do not trust in ourselves but in God.

This is the need of the church today. The church is not in great need of miracles, gifts, teachings, or knowledge. Today the church needs the ministry of Christ.

I love the stars they always find a way to pull me away.

The Window to the Universe Opens Inward and Outward.

Does any program really improve anybody, as much as simply identifying them? And, after identifying them, not ruining them?

Does any (MFA) program really improve anybody, as much as simply identifying them? And, after identifying them, not ruining them?

...which recall(s) a moment in time when raw excess made them a casual aristocracy, apart from the rest of the world.

I love you, I want to tell yu that, I want to say it for the billion times I couldn't say it. - Fletcher Green

He was just a taker. She was a taker in her way too. They were taking each other, and they loved each other for that. -June Havoc

If there's one thing I believe, its that I don't know anything and anything can happen

It’s perhaps more laudable to simply keep heading out into the world, than always tilting to leave one’s mark on it.

Be together, in the moment of, enjoy each other, love each other, support each other, until the next time...Life is too short.

I have lost tolerance for things without meaning. There is no time for them. Does that make sense? - Sara Seager

It is truly time to inspire your mind, whatever your dreams may be! Don’t wait for tomorrow, whatever your sorrows. Today is the day to ‘believe’. Jump to it! written by Lee Bice-Matheson, c2011.

Winners win losers make excuses.

Resolute, responsible, determined, knowledgeable, and perceptive

The U.S. government needs to learn from successful private businesses that run an effective and efficient operation in serving their customers and outwitting their competitors.

All these people moving through life, all around me, and no one, not a single person, knows what I'm going through.

The journey as a writer is not so much about our stories, but the stories of others we meet along the way on our wonderful path. #grateful

Life presents many challenges...Temptation is one of them.. And free will govern us all. We have the power to choose.

I have a strong theory that you can tell a lot about someone by their coffee order.

I have a strong theory that you can tell a lot about someone by their coffee order

But before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself.

There are just some kind of men who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learned to live in this one.

You’re either good, or you’re clever.

..forever daydreaming of a kiss so sweet, angels weep..

Every man's island, Jean Louise, every man's watchman, is his conscience. There is no such thing as a collective conscience.

Then Mr. Underwood's meaning became clear: Atticus had used every tool available to free men to save Tom Robinson, but in the secret courts of men's hearts Atticus had no case.

No, she was just a woman. And that meant she could feel, she could need, she could give and she could receive.

You'll never be able to silence the woman who was born to write.

Verbal arguments should always be suspect.

Books are like plants. They're decorations that are alive.

I do my best to love everybody...I'm hard put, sometimes- baby, its never an insult o be called what somebody thinks is a bad name. It just shows you how poor that person is, it doesn't hurt you.

Some of you need a lesson in humility. While your arrogance may give you a sense of power, it may serve you better to put it aside. Those are the times you will be the light of the world.

If you say one thing, and do something different, how can your conscience trust you? Self-trust comes from integrity.

Before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.

After all, the whole of humanity was anchored by inventions, contrivances, unrealities. Xiao Li lived on dreams, as most people do.

A kite only flies if it’s tethered.

Hungry for what? Money? No. Power? Over people? That was like having power over clams.

It’s only a cut, a reminder of this day. A reminder to ask every day, Why am I doing this?

When you are lost in the right way, you don't go back to being found in the wrong way.

Dead tree branches rattled, the cold wind seethed, it prattled of abominations about to unfold.A lone wolf howled, the full moon it prowled, ready for evils untold.

West Virgina never left Katherine's heart, but Virginia was her destiny.

It's like she wears an "I'm-always-happy" mask. I used to play along.

I contemplate the impossible and achieve madness. This is my blessing. This is my curse. My heaven, my hell.

Live from a place of love. It conquers all that is evil.