J.R. Miller Quotes

Life as it is called is for most of us one long postponement.

The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough of is love.

We create our fate every day ... most of the ills we suffer from are directly traceable to our own behavior.

It women knew what we were thinking they'd never stop slapping us.

The bravest battle that ever was fought Shall I tell you where and when? On the maps of the world you will find it not It was fought by the mothers of men.

A good newspaper is a nation talking to itself.

"Brave admiral say but one good word: What shall we do when hope is gone?" The words leapt like a leaping sword: "Sail on! sail on! and on!"

Like ships men flounder time and time again.

We create our fate every day we live.

Listening is not merely not talking though even that is beyond most of our powers it means taking a vigorous human interest in what is being told us.

The only peace the only security is in fulfillment.

If there is to be any peace it will come through being not having.

Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life.

I'm not really a Jew just Jew-ish not the whole hog.

Every man has his own destiny the only imperative is to follow it to accept it no matter where it leads him.

We don't see many fat men walking on stilts.

The man who looks for security even in the mind is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble.

That man who lives for self alone Lives for the meanest mortal known.

You know you're getting old when you start watching golf on TV and enjoying it.

I don't say my golf game is bad but if I grew tomatoes they'd come up sliced.

Some aspects of success seem rather silly as death approaches.

The trouble with eating Italian food is that five or six days later you're hungry again.

The word "now" is like a bomb thrown through the window and it ticks.

I struggled in the beginning. I said I was going to write the truth so help me God. And I thought I was. I found I couldn't. Nobody can write the absolute truth.

You never do any good until you get into some trouble.

Give us men to match our mountains, Give us men to match our plains: Men with empires in their purpose And new eras in their brains.

I became a general contractor in my early 20s. I have been in the business for over 35 years.

By the very nature of satire or parody, you have to love and respect your target and respect it enough to understand every aspect of it, so you can more effectively make fun of it.

Anytime you're playing basketball, and you have a coach who you have to respect, you've got to be very disciplined.

I would say that awards are for children. Because children need a tangible representation of their achievement. And as adults, you have to settle for the respect and admiration of your peers.

What's really cool about LEGOs is that you can put a bunch of bricks on the table, and everybody will make something different. Everyone has different ideas, and some of them may seem crazy.

I wouldn't want to be Superman. Batman would be cool. But the one I've always wanted to play is the Joker. There is a maniacal and dangerous side to me.

We believe the ice sheet was not around all the time. It was only around during cool snaps of the climate.

We don't regard any scientific theory as the absolute truth.

Low expectations is the key to happiness in life.

Sunday morning church service is not an enormous priority spending time with other believers is.

Family always gonna be there. The material things, they come and go.

The food and drink that goes along with football is one of the best things: hamburgers, hotdogs, chips and dips. At the stadium I would probably get nachos, but when I'm at home we order pizza a lot.

Junk stands and antique markets are the perfect place to pick up clues about the history of a country, region or town.

Democrats have no agenda, no plan for the future, and no sense of leadership.

I was not out to paint beautiful pictures even painting good pictures was not important to me. I wanted only to help the truth burst forth.

Life is hard. Not great. Kind of tragic.

No, I was never one of those positive people who believes he can have whatever he sets his sights on. I just kept working at it.

We try and reflect that there's a lot of optimism, there's a lot of positive things that are happening in 'Silicon Valley'.

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.

There has to be a measure of faith. That's what this business is all about: trusting in something that may never show up, that you have no concrete proof of.

The scientific argument advanced for intelligent design at the Dover trial, those arguments collapsed, scientifically and intellectually.

It's far easier to forgive an enemy after you've got even with him.

I rant, therefore I am.

The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.