J.R. Miller Quotes

...When the government goes into the business of destroying trust, it goes into the business of destroying itself.

Whatever needs to be maintained through force is doomed.

People love you when they on your mind/A thought is love's currency.

There's nothing wrong with being shallow as long as you're insightful about it.

Nobody's ever asked me to pay for a meal before I've eaten it, I've never been pulled over just because I was driving the wrong kind of car in the wrong kind of area at the wrong time of night.

Genius has no age, no country, no race; it belongs to mankind.

I have my own personal wish list.

I have made more friends for American culture than the State Department. Certainly I have made fewer enemies, but that isn't very difficult.

It's reached this point where people are fascinated by every intricate detail of other people's lives. And some people are willing to give up their lives like that.

The only way the French are going in is if we tell them we found truffles in Iraq.

Life is 440 horsepower in a 2-cylinder engine.

The most difficult lie I have ever contended with is this: life is a story about me.

All the trees are losing their leaves, and not one of them is worried.

The apple cannot be stuck back on the Tree of Knowledge; once we begin to see, we are doomed and challenged to seek the strength to see more, not less.

Acting and making art is just something I love to do, and I love to tell stories that feel important, honest and necessary. It's not about me. It's about being part of something.

I want to say thank you to the great state of Indiana and all the fans.... Pacers Nation, Blue and Gold, thank you guys so much.

When you come, please be so kind as to check your neuroses and psychoses at the gate... Fans and other obnoxious pests would do well to maintain silence.

Energy companies, such as Chevron and Shell, and oil producing countries, such as Kuwait and Venezuela, pump crude oil from their vast land holdings and sell it on the world market

One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.

Don't wait on perfect conditions for success to happen; just go ahead and do something!

We have two American flags always: one for the rich and one for the poor. When the rich fly it means that things are under control; when the poor fly it means danger, revolution, anarchy.

It's hard to dream when you're deep inside of one.

There is no law that gods must be fair, Achilles,” Chiron said. “And perhaps it is the greater grief, after all, to be left on earth when another is gone. Do you think?

Serenity is knowing that your worst shot is still pretty good.

I figure I've done what I could do, more or less, and now I'm going back to being a chemical; all we are is a lot of talking nitrogen, you know.

Getting socially outcast can be the best and most informative thing that can ever happen to you because you have to learn who you are separate from the pack.

An actor's job is to embrace emotions and situations that in real life we spend all of our time running away from.

Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not understood.

The abused children are alone with their suffering, not only within the family, but also within themselves. They cannot crate a place in their own soul where they could cry their beart out.

Ray Lewis knifed through those offensive linemen like a sucker-punch switchblade slicing between the ribs of some inebriated trash-talking punk outside a sports bar.

Truth grew in my mind like a fungus, and though I tried to sleep it out, there was no resisting the epiphanies.

The best work that anybody ever writes is the work that is on the verge of embarrassing him, always.

Define your times. Treasure your calling. Pray without ceasing. The terrors of the age are less than the grandeur of the Christ within you.

I've got life, I've got love, I've got faith & that's enough. We feel sorrow we feel pain, but there's sunshine after rain.

The goal of life is not to possess power but to radiate it.

Germany expected that at the most a day or so would see Belgian resistance broken and the dash on Paris begun. It was not safe to start such a forward rush with Belgium unconquered.

I used to be sceptic, but not anymore, because now I am positive that I'm getting screwed.

Sorrow, anger and resentment look back, worry looks around, while faith, hope, and optimism look to the future.

A recent police study found that you're much more likely to get shot by a fat cop if you run.

Honest criticism means nothing: what one wants is unrestrained passion, fire for fire.

My father is black and my mother is white. Therefore, I could answer to either, which kind of makes me a racial Lone Ranger, caught between two communities.

Born again?! No, I'm not. Excuse me for getting it right the first time.

The human mind is a wonderful thing, it starts working from before you're born and doesn't stop till you sit down to write a song.

Nothing else in all life is such a maker of joy and cheer as the privilege of doing good.

It's an amazing thing to be able to fall into the world of your childhood fantasy.

As an economics undergraduate, I also worked on a part-time basis in Cambridge, Massachusetts, for a company that was advising customers about portfolio decisions, writing reports.

A man without hope is a man without fear.

Sometimes you have to watch somebody love something before you can love it yourself.

Believing in God is as much like falling in love as it is making a decision. Love is both something that happens to you and something you decide upon.

Rather than waiting to restore fiscal responsibility after we pass legislation, we must work to ensure we remain committed to it as we draft legislation.