J.M. Williams Quotes

Why did I write? Because I found life unsatisfactory.

And hard times are good in their own way, too. Because the only way you can achieve true happiness is if you experience true sadness as well. It's all about light and shade. Balance.

If it ain't a pleasure, it ain't a poem.

There is no one true church, no one chosen people.

How do we remain faithful to our own spiritual imagination and not betray what we know in our own bodies? The world is holy. We are holy. All life is holy.

I accept the Organic Trinity of Mineral, Vegetable, and Animal with as much authority as I accept the Holy Trinity. Both are sacred.

this is her body this is her blood

That was the day that I promised I'd never sing of love that does not exist. but darling, You are the only exception

Whatever my ancestors did to you, none of them consulted me.

People in science fiction flicks always seemed to know useful things about the places time travel took them. But what if the time traveler had been only an average history student? What then?

Did the destruction of one dream leave a vacuum that required filling with another? Is a broken heart more vulnerable?

The telephone bell was ringing wildly, but without result, since there was no-one in the room but the corpse.

The mind creates those things that exist.

Women piece together their lives from the scraps left over for them.

You touch me again, you arrogant Ardenine swine, and I swear on the blood of Hanalea the warrior, I will geld you. Do you understand?

Somebody said once or wrote, once: 'We're all of us children in a vast kindergarten trying to spell God's name with the wrong alphabet blocks!

The danger is in what we codify, commodify, and exploit.

She had to find her own story, and she could make it whatever shape she thought best.

To withhold words is power. But to share our words with others, openly and honestly, is also power.

He had once thought it was strange to have a friend you'd never met. Now it was even stranger, losing a friend you'd never really had

Wealth can be created. Wit and intelligence can't.

You'll be surprised how infinitely merciful they [these tablets] are. The prescription number is 96814. I think of it as the telephone number of God!

It's a blindness thing, faith.

When silence is a choice, it is an unnerving presence. When silence is imposed, it is censorship.

Practical! On Wednesday afternoons I could be practically anything. What's up?

You do not respond to an attempt on your life with a slap on the hand. Or a joke.

If so, then it was also here where I came to know I can survive what hurts. I believed in my capacity to stand back up and run into the waves again and again, no matter the risk.

But time in only another liar, so go along the wall a little further: if blackberries prove bitter there'll be mushrooms, fairy-ring mushrooms in the grass, sweetest of all fungi.

We mask our needs as the needs of others.

Revolution begins in putting on bright colors.

The only way to get what you want is to make them more afraid of you than they are of each other.

WHAT ARE THE CONSEQUENCES when we go against our instincts? What are the consequences of not speaking out? What are the consequences of guilt, shame, and doubt?

For Hanalea the Warrior!

I haven't got anything against cats. I haven't got anything against elk either, but that doesn't mean I'm going to keep one in the store so I'll have a place to hang my hat.

Beauty is transformed over time, and not without destruction.

People don't trade money for things when they value their money more highly than they value the things.

I need to go to parties, Raisa mused, so I don't think so much.

Plus he was naturally lucky at cards. As Mam had always said, lucky at cards, or lucky at life. One or the other. Not both.

And the worst part is before it gets any better we're heading for a cliff. And in the free fall I will realize I'm better off when I hit the bottom

Baseball, of all sports, and maybe of all human endeavors, has no room for cynicism.

My voice is born repeatedly in the fields of uncertainty.

Which is a sad thing when you're only seventeen.

Not everything is meant for all to hear.

Some things are not forgiveable. Deliberate cruelty is not forgiveable. It is the most unforgiveable thing in my opinion, and the one thing in which I have never, ever been guilty.

I admire how she protects her energy and understands her limitations.

I contribute my best in my sport and I also have a ton of respect for myself and my family.

I think sometimes when it comes to sports, and especially relationships between players and coaches, that people lose track, lose a sense of reality.

The best Christmas present I got from my husband was a week to do whatever I wanted.

I have only one ambition, which is to be famous.

I want to thank all my fans, teammates, coaches and supporters for the strength they've given me to overcome so much.