J. J. Johnson Quotes

Allegories drawn to great length will always break.

My mother was the influence in my life. She was strong; she had great faith in the ultimate triumph of justice and hard work. She believed passionately in education.

Don't ever lose sight of who you are and your own power.

It doesn't matter what your name is!

Every desire is a viper in the bosom, who while he was chill was harmless; but when warmth gave him strength, exerted it in poison.

I do not envy a clergyman's life as an easy life, nor do I envy the clergyman who makes it an easy life.

Millions of American families affected by debilitating diseases have new hope today after the U.S. House passed legislation to support potentially life-saving stem cell research.

Don't rest on your laurels. There's always going to be someone behind you who's going to be better than you. So you need to get out there and keep working.

They call upon us to supply American boys to do the job that Asian boys should do.

In the 60′s there was a look. In the 70′s there was a look, and in the 80′s. Now, it's a free-for-all.

You can never be wise unless you love reading.

To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.

Power is not sufficient evidence of truth.

It is better to live rich than to die rich.

Protect your good image from the eyes of negative viewers, who may look at your good appearance with an ugly fiendish eye, and ruin your positive qualities with their chemical infested tongues.

I believe that living on the edge, living in and through your fear, is the summit of life, and that people who refuse to take that dare condemn themselves to a life of living death.

I looked over at her; if women knew how good they looked in the dash light of oversized pickup trucks, they'd never get out of them.

Lastly, there is bankruptcy, as the United States pours its economic resources into ever more grandiose military projects and shortchanges the education, health, and safety of its citizens.

A life without friends means death without company. (Adiskidegabeko bizita, auzogabeko heriotza.) —BASQUE PROVERB

You won’t have to watch what you say if you watch what you think.

A blaze first pleases and then tires the sight.

It is unnatural for a Christian not to have an appetite for the impossible.

When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live.

Whatever you have spend less.

Whatever you gain through self promotion you'll have to sustain through self promotion. When our promotion comes from God, He sustains it.

I've taken Eco drink everyday for a year and I can tell you that it works!!!! I definitely can tell when I miss a day.

If I have said something to hurt a man once, I shall not get the better of this by saying many things to please him.

The poor suffer twice at the rioter's hands. First, his destructive fury scars their neighborhood; second, the atmosphere of accommodation and consent is changed to one of hostility and resentment.

Somewhere there must one Made for this soul, to move it.

It's always better when we're together, somewhere in between together.

Light at the end of the tunnel? We don't even have a tunnel; we don't even know where the tunnel is.

In insecure relationships, we disguise our vulnerabilities so our partner never really sees us.

Change is a process not an event.

All the other stuff without love? Not worth a whole lot. Love starts with ourselves and needs to be approached like anything else we want to master-with a lot of diligent studying and practicing!

If you believe you will not be free from sin until you die,you have just made death your savior instead of Jesus.

Commitment is a muscle. The more you use it, the stronger it gets.

It doesn't matter what you think!

It used to be that people needed products to survive. Now products need people to survive.

A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization.

There's times when you catch a ball and really didn't even see that ball. You're like, 'That couldn't have been all me.'

The goal every year is to win the Super Bowl, not just to get to the playoffs, not just to win a few games.

Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought; our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.

They think because I'm small, they can do what they want to do to me. But I'm not weak. If I lower my shoulder and they lower they're shoulder, they're going to go down.

The meat in the sausage has got to be Conservative.

I never wanted to join fashion industry or being another Donna or another Dianne. I made clothes that I wanted to wear. I would cut, I would sew and I would wear, and it made me to feel better.

Perhaps the most important ingredient in my work... is my brain - particularly the right brain... the free spontaneous side, and the left brain, which is careful and methodical.

The difference between Hitler's speeches and Churchill's speeches was that Hitler made you think he could do anything; Churchill made you think you could do anything.

I believe it is important for people to create a healthy mental environment in which to accomplish daily tasks.

Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.

I don't fancy colors of the face, I'm always attracted to colors of the brain.