J.J. Brown Quotes

Nothing captures human interest more than human tragedy.

It has always been this way. Death is followed by birth. To reach paradise, man must pass through inferno. - Bertrand Zobrist

Where there is a sufficient social movement of self-reliant communities, there can be political change. There must be political change.

Rather than sitting on the sidelines & hurling judgment & advice, we must dare to show up & let ourselves be seen. This is vulnerability. This is daring greatly.

Femininity and masculinity are social constructs. Female and male are biological. We don't have to learn to be men or women but we do have to learn to be ladies and gentlemen.

Stop expecting others to act first, be the one who makes a positive change.

Madness is the WHO staring into the abyss and denying it is there. Madness is an ostrich who sticks her head in the sand while a pack of hyenas closes around her. - Lanky Man with green eyes

What's the point of prolonging your life if you don't enjoy it? It's your body. Do whatever you want with it. Better to wear out than rust over.

America will be disadvantaged, just like Detroit was disadvantaged when they couldn't build smaller cars in the '70s or '80s. The world shifts.

You build walls & boundaries when you give into your mind. Fear nothing & take control of who you are & who you are meant to be

The biggest threat to global stability is the potential for food crises in poor countries to cause government collapse.

Socialism failed because it couldn't tell the economic truth. Capitalism may fail because it couldn't tell the ecological truth.

My purpose is far greater than my pain

Don't expect others to listen to your advice and ignore your example.

She knows what is the best purpose of education: not to be frightened by the best but to treat it as part of daily life.

Real character is formed in the midst of the battles of the soul.

Sometimes you have to experience the bad, so that you can learn to appreciate the good things that enter your life.

Remember that just the moment you say, "I give up," someone else seeing the same situation is saying, "My, what a great opportunity."

Plant the seed of positivity into your mind, nourish it daily with love and happiness will flower, as fear begins to die.

I used to rap as a kid and people were impressed by it, so it gave me the drive to keep going. Everybody has at least one talent. I guess this is my talent.

Inflation hasn't ruined everything. A dime can still be used as a screwdriver.

The money complex is the demonic, and the demonic is God's ape; the money complex is therefore the heir to and substitute for the religious complex, an attempt to find God in things.

I love it when you talk that sh-t.

Beauty is the result of realizing what is special about you and not focusing on the things you don't like.

The need for innovation – the lifeblood of business – is widely recognized, and imagination and play are key ingredients for making it happen.

When starting out, don't worry about not having enough money. Limited funds are a blessing, not a curse. Nothing encourages creative thinking in quite the same way.

Consider the "new" woman. She's trying to be Pollyanna Borgia, clearly a conflict of interest. She's supposed to be a ruthless winner at work and a bundle of nurturing sweetness at home.

Provide more service than what you get paid for

If you give that gal a diamond ring, you'll get a diamond back. She's just a venom wearing denim, boy, she's always making tracks.

You can't take my joy, because you didn't give it to me

The pain will not go away by getting angry or bitter, it will go away when you learn to accept life's challenges with grace and ease

Always smile back at little children. To ignore them is to destroy their belief that the world is good.

Lie on your back and look at the stars.

The only person who listens to both sides of an argument is the fellow in the next apartment.

Perfection does not exist -- you can always do better and you can always grow.

Is bankrupting this great country the top priority of this administration?

You know, having been an election monitor in countries across the world, I can tell you that we would never certify another country's election if it had as many flaws in place as we had in Florida.

I don't see how anybody could have a passion for nature without having an equally developed tolerance for the cold.

Liberating but hard to remember we're just bit-parts in the lives of people we know, who care very little for our secrets

A lot of unconfident kids do tricks because it's the quickest route to impressing people," he explains. "You can stand behind something amazing and people think you're amazing.

The bridges that you cross before you come to them are over rivers that aren't there.

Magic is not inherently anything. It is what you sell it as.

By letting go, you allow everything to find it's rightful place. Once free, everything finds its way home.

...a tale of too many cooks in the defence.

To be fully human is perhaps why I'm Christian, because I see in the life of Jesus a way of being fully human.

Use different basketball offensive alignments to cause confusion for the other team.

Throughout history, every period of enlightenment has been accompanied by darkness, pushing in opposition. Such are laws of nature and balance.

This is emphatically an age of discoveries; but I will venture the assertion, that none but an American slaveholder could have discovered that a man born in a country was not a citizen of it.

Nothing is hidden that will not be made known; nothing is secret that will not come to light.

Mature love is composed and sustaining; a celebration of commitment, companionship, and trust.