J.L. Hunt Quotes

And one thing I can be proud of is we have a 'Come and Try Fishing' day every year. And there's 20 venues throughout the state, and see, these thousands of kids who've never been fishing come along.

Ah, March! we know thou art Kind-hearted, spite of ugly looks and threats, And, out of sight, art nursing April's violets!

If I've learned one thing in life, it's: Stand for something or you'll fall for anything.

Everyone has influence. Use it wisely.

O May, sweet-voice one, going thus before, Forever June may pour her warm red wine Of life and passions,--sweeter days are thine!

Who influenced you? When did they influence you? How have they influenced you? What have you done with their influence?

We need to be visionary; we have to be bold.

O month when they who love must love and wed.

I've concluded that I learned far more from my failures than from my successes.

Expect the unexpected, my mother once said. Because the unexpected most certainly will be expecting you.

Always something new, always something I didn't expect, and sometimes it isn't horrible.

I do not like odd things until I can understand them.

Words are less needful to sorrow than to joy.

I can't be a man. But I can embrace the head of a man, the intelligence of a man, the spirit of a man.

Danger for danger's sake is senseless.

Beauty too often sacrifices to fashion.

If you are melancholy for the first time, you will find, upon a little inquiry, that others have been melancholy many times, and yet are cheerful now.

For the qualities of sheer wit and humor, Swift had no superior, ancient or modern.

The more sensible a woman is, supposing her not to be masculine, the more attractive she is in her proportionate power to entertain.

The loveliest hair is nothing, if the wearer is incapable of a grace.

May exalting and humanizing thoughts forever accompany me, making me confident without pride, and modest without servility.

Elaboration is not beauty, and sand-paper never finished a piece of bad work.

Part of our good consists in the endeavor to do sorrows away, and in the power to sustain them when the endeavor fails,--to bear them nobly, and thus help others to bear them as well.

Tears hinder sorrow from becoming despair.

You can't do a fine thing without having seen fine examples.

Well, we've made huge strides since the 1990 World Cup, USA '94, and obviously since '98. Unfortunately, those strides only register with the public once every four years.

Believe that time is going to help you do what you want.

I am persuaded there is no such thing after all as a perfect enjoyment of solitude; for the more delicious the solitude the more one wants a companion.

This garden has a soul, I know its moods.

Give up the idea of 'color' for awhile! Consider masses - values, only... One dark and one light place in every picture.

The only place a new hat can be carried into with safety is a church, for there is plenty of room there.

The person who can be only serious or only cheerful, is but half a man.

The last excessive feelings of delight are always grave.

Affection, like melancholy, magnifies trifles; but the magnifying of the one is like looking through a telescope at heavenly objects; that of the other, like enlarging monsters with a microscope.

I think it's time for me to get out, because at the moment I'm only thinking about fishing 21 hours a day, and they're the waking moments. And even when I close my eyes I'm thinking about it.

When a person is carrying their sin, it can be quite a load...I don't know what else to do with your sin but confess and ask God to forgive it.

Some people you speak to you speak into their heads. It's logical.

People want to be part of something bigger than they are.

O bees, sweet bees!" I said; "that nearest field Is shining white with fragrant immortelles Fly swiftly there and drain those honey wells.

No matter how hard times are, people still want music.

The #1 reasons are unsuccessful is their inability to lead themselves.

The only way I see an out is for you to take full responsibility.

Some people are into position, not the mission.

Pity and friendship seek different habitations.

We don't have all the answers. Perhaps prayer is simply a time we set aside to acknowledge that reality.

No wonder is greater than any other wonder, and if once explained ceases to be a wonder.

Suicide is a desperate attempt to get out of what seems to be an intolerable situation. It appears to be a way of escape from the pain of living.

Those struggling with life-threatening thoughts do not feel connected to others. They feel all alone- even alone in the midst of a crowd.

Night's deepest gloom is but a calm; that soothes the weary mind: The labored days restoring balm; the comfort of mankind.

A small step in a good direction.