J.J. Brown Quotes

Christ's father let him die on that cross. I understand why he done it. But Christ never had no granny like me.

Tastes change, Cherie. I find the older I get the more I like to be reminded of my youth.

War’s all either country knows, and everything seems to depend on it now.

I offer you your life, friend, and recommend you take it.

Lightening flashed again and again but above the shriek of the wind and the pounding hail they never heard the thunder.

Dead man shouldn’t have no fears. Makes his passing easier.

What one of us wants we all want. You a man of the earth as you are, you ought to have known we hunt in packs. And now I come to finish you.

She ran the harder and zagged more erratically, and in the wreckage left from the hurricane the girl misjudged her path and ran straight into the old well. She didn’t even scream.

You want a sermon? Jesus died and resurrected and then run off to Heaven to leave us sinners here. Amen.

The man on the rise must always show respect to the man on the decline.

It ain't life that left you no choice, its honor!

Like a sheep invited to a banquet in his honor thrown by wolves.

There is a festival where we wear the faces of demons to ward evil spirits from our dead in the vale. Sometimes wefail.

For two thousand years or more man has been subjected to a systematic effort to transform him into an ascetic animal. He remains a pleasure-seeking animal.

And there's the beauty of space. A billion paths to choose.

I'm not an addictive personality, I just like getting high, that's all.

You tell anyone I cried, I'll find a dead fish, put it in a sock, hide it in your room, and let it putrefy.""Fair enough.

For people with patience, time with a dog is a little slice of heaven.

It is my belief that love dies from overuse, and the heart dies from a lack of interest in life without it.

Nostalgia is also a dangerous form of comparison. Think about how often we compare ourselves and our lives to a memory that nostalgia has so completely edited that it never really existed.

The Golds dance in pairs, Obsidians in threes, Grays in dozens. We dance alone, because only alone do Helldivers drill.~Uncle Narol

A good shell has to have life and resiliency to get in harmony with the swing of the crew.

Boundaries are, in simple terms, the recognition of personal space.

Hegel used to say that the familiar, precisely because it is familiar, remains unknown. That’s why we don't know so much about stupidity.

Man cannot be freed by the same injustice that enslaved it.

How am I supposed to believe you when you're obviously carrying a fake monogram Gucci Bag?

Anyone who takes a decided line in certain matters, is sure to lead all the rest.

This work of making trade righteous, of Christianizing trade, looks like the very hardest the Gospel has ever had to take in hand—in England at any rate.

Grey hoped the Church would yet be able to save England from the fate of Tyre or Carthage, the great trading nations

To know shame is to be human. And to have the capacity for empathy is also to be human.

Shame hates it when we reach out and tell our story. It hates having words wrapped around it- it can't survive being shared. Shame loves secrecy. When we bury our story, the shame metastasizes.

I ain’t afraid to drown if that means I’m deep up in your ocean.

A Dog can never brag about catching a cat that waited for him.

Learn from the past, live in the present and create your future.

We were at sixty thousand feet. You’re thirty percent lighter upthere.

When you judge yourself for needing help, you judge those you are helping. When you attach value to giving help, you attach value to needing help.

The real distinction between being great and being less great seems to be the extent to which we are willing to be pushed along by our own desires.

It's not that I wait for you.It's that my arms are doors I cannot close.

They believe civilization weakens natural selection. They do nature’s work so that we do not become a soft race.

There is nothing more dangerous or more plentiful in all the world than unreasonable men of greed that preach an intolerant ideology and are full of a self-esteeming and illogical moral creed.

Awesome . . .” Jared spoke up from the other side of the room. “Ember, the Otherworld's wonder mutt.

Everyone's got their own way of loving. There's no such thing as 'supposed to

One life, One love, One breath, One people, One chance to make a difference. If we are not one in LIFE we surely will be one on DEATH.

She listens to the delicate fluttering of sparrows' wings, tiny messengers. The sound reminds her of life - struggling, beating, rising, flying, and now dissolving into space.

For where else can I go to sample daily the richness of life in all its profound chaos?

If antimatter and matter make contact, both are destroyedinstantly. Physicists call the process ‘annihilation.

How do you feel?”He rubbed his stomach. “Like I’ve been eating Styrofoam.

They don't know those places in me. Only he does. Only he has seen the darkness inside of me and turns into love and light.

You don't have to be great to get started but you have to get started to be great.

All my life, the library has always been one of my favorite places to go. (Larry Brown: A Writer's Life by Jean W. Cash)