J.R. Miller Quotes
The only defense against evil, violent people is good people who are more skilled at violence.
The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough is love.
We need to look resolutely away from the impossibilities and to the Lord. His help will come.
You could have the world in the palm of your hand, but it don't mean a thing 'til you change it.
We didn't come here to set any fashions in music. We merely came to bring a much-needed touch of home to some lads who have been here a couple of years.
One hundred trout are needed to support one man for a year. The trout, in turn, must consume 90,000 frogs, that must consume 27 million grasshoppers that live off of 1,000 tons of grass.
There is a chalk outline slowly being drawn around common sense and most people can't identify the victim.
Don't be seduced into thinking that that which does not make a profit is without value.
Writing is the hardest way of earning a living, with the possible exception of wrestling alligators.
An unacknowledged trauma is like a wound that never heals over and may start to bleed again at any time.
I cannot in good conscience participate in a celebratory occasion hosted by a country where people like myself are being systematically denied their basic right to live and love openly.
We can speak our honest minds without compromise and without censorship and to each other and to our people. We can take our message directly to our people.
There are 2 rules in extreme snowriding: First, always follow your heart; second, never cry when it hurts.
Back of every creation, supporting it like an arch, is faith. Enthusiasm is nothing: It comes and goes. But if one believes, then miracles occur.
They told me never fall in love, It never works out in your favor. You way too young and right now that's just human nature.
Every single person in my life and every relationship I have is distant because all I do is music.
I have always looked upon decay as being just as wonderful and rich an expression of life as growth.
How disappointing would it be get to heaven and find out God created life to be enjoyed while all we did was worry?
It's a great thing about being a musician; you don't stop until the day you die, you can improve. So it's a wonderful thing to do.
I'ma do my thing until the day the reaper come for me. You can keep on grillin', I'ma smile back.
An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.
A character is defined by the kinds of challenges he cannot walk away from. And by those he has walked away from that cause him remorse.
It's foolish to be prejudiced. There are so many reasons to hate people on an individual basis.
The proportion of men must be reduced to and maintained at approximately 10% of the human race.
There is something beautiful about a billion stars held steady by a God who knows what He is doing.
In the quest to be a man, you start to learn you need your family. If it wasn't for them, I'd be way closer to insanity.
I can no more understand the totality of God than the pancake I made for breakfast understands the complexity of me
Some devil with a pitchfork keep talkin' like he know me. I stood before an angel as he told me bout the glory.
Other people may not have had high expectations for me... but I had high expectations for myself.
They're gonna try to tell you no, shatter all your dreams. But you gotta get up and go and think of better things.
That probably greatest of narcissistic wounds -- not to have been loved just as one truly was -- cannot heal without the work of mourning.
I've always liked to shoot from the hip. This is the perfect fit for me ... I'm willing to earn my spurs, because once again, after 18 years I'm back to being a rookie.
The only business in the world bigger than gambling is religion...but gambling is not nearly so corrupt.
Did you think that the missionary path was all glory? Than you have not read of God's greatest Messenger to earth, who sat and wept over Jerusalem, crying out, ʻI would... but ye would not.ʼ
Michael Scofield is someone everyone can relate to, but nobody would want to be in his shoes.
Society chooses to disregard the mistreatment of children, judging it to be altogether normal because it is so commonplace.
People love to have lived a great story, but few people like the work it takes to make it happen.
There's no true value placed in learning, if the point of you learning something is to simply know it for a test, to get a grade, to go to the good school.
I'd like to make as much art as I possibly can before I die, so I'm working on a few things.
