J.M. Green Quotes

You can't choose your childhood, it's just what happens to you. But after that you choose. And that's really what (makes you).

It's never pleasant to have one's unquestioning beliefs put in their historical context, as I know from experience, I can assure you.

I try hard not to judge anyone, and I try to bless everyone who is a part of my life, particularly anyone with whom I am having any problems

Childhood isn't just those years. It's also the opinions you form about them afterward. That's why our childhoods are so long.

Imagine others complexly.

And yet still I worried. I like being a person. I wanted to keep at it. Worry is yet another side effect of dying.

After all, you’re only an immortal until someone manages to kill you. After that, you were just long-lived.

I was born in Paris, and it's a beautiful place, but London feels like home. I like the village feeling, I like running in the parks - even the food isn't as bad as it used to be.

We have only God on our side; they have 'In God We Trust' on their side.

Colin thought about the dork mantra: sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me. What a dirty lie.

The whole pleasure of being in a state of unknowing is that as long as you don’t know, all possible outcomes feel as if they are happening.

I just want to fly under the radar, because when you start to make yourself into a big deal, that's when you get shot down.

You may be smart, but I've been smart longer.

Nothing really ever happens like you imagine it will.

I always wondered if there was a purpose to the universe, if there was a plan, if there was some sort of organizing factor, hopefully that I played a role in.

And he found himself thinking that maybe stories don't just make us matter to each other - maybe they're also the only way to the infinite mattering he'd been after for so long.

We think that we are invincible because we are.

The amazing thing is that we're right to hold onto hope. The world may be broken but hope is not crazy.

Being in a relationship, that's something you choose. Being friends, that's something you just are.

Every second of your definitionally temporary consciousness, you are choosing how you spend something that will not last forever.

So you go on and on, with this intellectual fly down, your underwear exposed, and toilette paper hanging out the back of your pants.

Always pack your uniform on top.

We only have so long to play in the dirt and ask questions of rivers.

England understands good Chinese, Japanese and Indian cuisine; in France, we just get French.

I play the piano. I bought an upright piano that is actually electric, so I can practice my scales with headphones on and not make my neighbours' lives hell!

I've never played a character that is just beautiful, but sometimes you can read scripts that sound so shallow, like women are objects. I've never done something like that, though.

YOU are valuable and rare and worthy of love.

People think there's a single solution to complex problems, and the solution is often making an enemy of a group of people - pulling back and rejecting the other.

Videogame players essentially choose whether to win the game or to die heroically. There's a certain glory in both.

Coal miners don't get coal miners' block.

We have to consider who is going to be the best prime minister to take on a "one nation" agenda.

If you stand up to the human race you lose something called their 'goodwill'; if you kowtow to them you gain ... their permission to continue kowtowing.

Here's to all the places we went. And all the places we'll go. And here's to me, whispering again and again and again and again: iloveyou

You have to transmit to them what its like being in the theater. And it has to come from somewhere inside you and not by being like what somebody did last year.

The whip degrades; a severe father teaches his children to dissemble; their love is pretense, and their obedience a species of self-defense. Fear is the father of lies.

If by that you mean that I dislike celebrity magazines, prefer food to anorexia, refuse to watch TV shows about models, and hate the color pink, then yes. I am proud to be not really a girl.

If the property belongs to God he is able to pay the tax.

Happiness just wasn't part of the job description back then. You tried to find a helpmate to keep the cold wind and dogs at bay. Happiness just wasn't part of the equation. Survival was.

Underneath this little stone Lies Robert Earl of Huntington; No other archer was so good - And people called him Robin Hood. Such outlaws as he and his men Will England never see again.

The man who invented the telescope found out more about heaven than the closed eyes of prayer ever discovered.

If we are immortal it is a fact in nature, and we are not indebted to priests for it, nor to bibles for it, and it cannot be destroyed by unbelief.

Just spend a few more months playing video games. That hand-eye coordination will come in handy when you get to third base.

If there be an infinite Being, he does not need our help - we need not waste our energies in his defense.

The rights of men and women should be equal and sacred-marriage should be a perfect partnership.

It is with men as with other things. The mullein needs only a year, but the oak a century, and the greatest men are those who have continued to grow as long as they have lived.

To be abandoned like that! Shut out when you most need to be loved.

Martyrdom, as a rule, establishes the sincerity of the martyr, never the correctness of his thought. Things are true or false in themselves.

An infinite personality is an infinite impossibility.

But if you consider all the unlikely things together, at least one of them will probably happen to each of us.

There is more real devotional feeling summoned from the temple of the mind by great music than by any sermon ever delivered.