J.L. Hunt Quotes

Some things are better done than described.

So, when I say 'match the hatch', if the fish are taking the nymph, and you're actually producing a replica of a flying insect, you'll catch fresh air.

None of us is promised tomorrow... So whenever an opportunity has presented itself for me I'm willing to take it.

Poetry is the breath of beauty.

Happy opinions are the wine of the heart.

My wife says I'm making a noise like a stranded whale. I think I have a major snoring problem.

Men die the way they lived.

Your second-hand bookseller is second to none in the worth of the treasures he dispenses.

The door of the human heart, can only be opened from the inside.

O proudly name their names who bravely sail| To seek brave lost in Arctic snows and seas!

You don't have to be rich to be generous. You have to be generous to be generous.

What an anchor is to a ship, hope is to the soul. Both ships and souls are kept safe by a firm, secure anchor that keeps holding despite turbulent winds and churning tides.

There are two worlds: The world that we can measure with line and rule, and the world we feel with our hearts and imaginations.

Stolen sweets are always sweeter, Stolen kisses much completer, Stolen looks are nice in chapels, Stolen, stolen be your apples.

When love is at its best, one loves so much that he cannot forget.

When Jesus Christ forgives you of sin, He never brings it back up.

Our love for God and our appreciation of His love and forgiveness will be in proportion to the recognition of our sin and unworthiness.

What seems over your head is always under His feet.

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Like a blind spinner in the sun,I tread my days:I know that all the threads will runAppointed ways.I know each day will bring its task,And being blind no more I ask.

Whatever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves... how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion, from one bitter root, to raise perhaps many flowers.

I didn't go to high school, and I didn't go to grade school either. Education, I think, is for refinement and is probably a liability.

The more clearly we see the infinite chasm between God's glory and our sinful falling short thereof, the greater will be our appreciation of His grace and love in bridging that gulf to redeem us.

To be successful, you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish, then resolve to pay the price to get it.

He is not someone who went off to play in Europe and only a few Americans follow. He has the potential to be on magazine covers and more newspaper coverage.

I think that all of us are 5-year-olds and we don't want to be embarrassed in the schoolyard.

You can't compartmentalize unforgiveness. You can't control sin. You can't manage sin. Sin is never satisfied with the amount of you it possesses.

Where the mouth is sweet and the eyes intelligent, there is always the look of beauty, with a right heart.

I do eat well. I try to love my body. That is what I tell my daughter. I say, 'Love every bite of food. Love your body. We're all going to be dead soon.' Actually I don't say that last thing to her.

I won't wear fur-never, ever. I'm an animal lover. I wouldn't even wear faux fur. I prefer to go the cheap route and not shave my legs.

If I could write a story that would do for the Indian one-hundredth part what 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' did for the Negro, I would be thankful the rest of my life.

Motherhood is priced Of God, at price no man may dare To lessen or misunderstand.

I think one of the reasons our court system wants to remove The 10 Commandments is because The 10 Commandments reminds us we are sinners.

The woman who creates and sustains a home, and under whose hands children grow up to be strong and pure men and women, is a creator second only to God.

O sweet, delusive Noon, Which the morning climbs to find, O moment sped too soon, And morning left behind.

By all these lovely tokens September days are here, With summer's best of weather And autumn's best of cheer.

If you don't believe you can win, there is no point in getting out of bed at the beginning of the day.

No one is entitled to the truth.

When moral courage feels that it is in the right, there is no personal daring of which it is incapable.

You can't receive forgiveness unless you let God deal with your deceit.

There is nothing so skillful in its own defense as imperious pride.

You wouldn't think you could kill an ocean, would you? But we'll do it one day. That's how negligent we are.

The goldenrod is yellow, The corn is turning brown, The trees in apple orchards With fruit are bending down.

Love ... is a quicksilver word; though you see plainly where it is, you have only to put your finger on it to find that it is not there but someplace else.

When you get honest with God, you can exchange the fig leaves you used to cover your sin with the righteousness of Jesus Christ.

Occupation is the necessary basis of all enjoyment.

Now and then one sees a face which has kept its smile pure and undefiled. Such a smile transfigures; such a smile, if the artful but know it, is the greatest weapon a face can have.

I think I'm a weird combination of deeply introverted and very daring. I can feel both those things working.

If you become a Nun, dear, The bishop Love will be; The Cupids every one, dear! Will chant-'We trust in thee!'

In order to receive a pardon you must plead guilty.