J.M. Green Quotes
She would stay on the road and in hiding, a balloon floating through the sky, eating up hundreds of miles a day with a help of the perpetual tailwind.
We landed, in fact, parallel to a canal, like there were two runways: one for us and one for waterfowl.
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.
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.
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.
There is more real devotional feeling summoned from the temple of the mind by great music than by any sermon ever delivered.
I did a whole concert in Atlanta with my fly open, and I had a black suit on and a white shirt. My white shirt was protruding from the fly.
But if you consider all the unlikely things together, at least one of them will probably happen to each of us.
Every creed is a rock in running water: humanity sweeps by it. Every creed cries to the universe, "Halt!" A creed is the ignorant Past bulling the enlightened Present.
The rights of men and women should be equal and sacred-marriage should be a perfect partnership.
Martyrdom, as a rule, establishes the sincerity of the martyr, never the correctness of his thought. Things are true or false in themselves.
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.
A miracle is the badge and brand of fraud. ... No intelligent, honest man ever pretended to perform a miracle, and never will.
The history of the world shows that when a mean thing was done, man did it; when a good thing was done, man did it.
The churches have no confidence in each other. Why? Because they are acquainted with each other.
It seems to me that if there is some infinite being who wants us to think alike he would have made us alike.
Creationists use facts the same way a drunk uses a lightpost: for support instead of illumination
He who commends the brutalities of the past, sows the seeds of future crimes.
Darwin has done more to change human thought than all the priests who have existed.
God cannot send to eternal pain a man who has done something toward improving the condition of his fellow-man. If he can, I had rather go to hell than to heaven and keep company with such a god.
Most people can bear adversity. But if you wish to know what a man really is, give him power.
That level of expectation that I'm going to be conservative is really disappointing, but it is how many people think about clergy and the church
To the wise man, to the wise nation, the mistakes of the past are the torches of the present.
I'm no more a lawbreaker than they are , and if they were lawbreakers for keeping God's commandments, they're my example.
The savage prays to a stone that he calls a god, while the Christian prays to a god he calls a spirit, and the prayers of both are equally useful.
There was a beautiful feeling of calm in my groin, a sense of peace so remarkable it was almost ecstasy——anyone who' suffered bad pain and then recovered will know what I'm talking about.
We each owe a death, there are no exceptions, I know that, but sometimes, oh God, the Green Mile is so long.
The person healed has an obligation to then ask why— to meditate on God's will, and the extraordinary lengths to which God has gone to realize His will.
Like some dogs: kick them once and they never trust you again, no matter how nice you are to them.
But of course there is always a hamartia and yours is that oh, my God, even though you HAD FREAKING CANCER you give money to a company in exchange for the chance to acquire YET MORE CANCER.
Which would you rather be if you had the choice--divinely beautiful or dazzlingly clever or angelically good?
In my opinion, actual heroism, like actual love, is a messy, painful, vulnerable business—and I wanted to try to reflect that.
Osteosarcoma sometimes takes a limb to check you out. The, if it like you, it takes the rest.
The funny thing about writing is that whether you're doing well or doing it poorly, it looks the exact same. That's actually one of the main ways that writing is different from ballet dancing.
...a little "appreciation" sometimes does quite as much good as all the conscientious "bringing up" in the world.