J.R. Stewart Quotes

I consider myself an American African because we did not come by choice.

Values reflect what is important to the way you live and work.

Values are the deeply held beliefs that drive and direct your behavior.

Values offer focus amidst the chaos.

Free time is death to the anxious, and thank goodness I don't have any of it right now.

The missing aren't missing, they're only departed

I know it when I see itJacobellis v. Ohio, 378 U.S. 184 (1964), concurring op.

Uncommunicated expectations are the shame of relationships.

As we must always remember, the most important freight that a road carries may be neither household goods, nor livestock, nor munitions of war—but ideas!

My grandad always said, "You should never judge a book by its cover." And it's for that reason that he lost his job as chair of the British Book Cover Awards panel.

If your regime is not strong enough to handle a joke, then you have no regime.

There is simply no issue more important. Conservation is the preservation of human life on earth, and that, above all else, is worth fighting for.

Those fighting to be included in the ideal of equality are not divisive.Those fighting to keep those people out - are.

Ashes, ashes.” Her whispered words of an old rhyme smashed through the silence as thunder, and in unison, the shadow figures answered.“We all fall down.

As a reformed procrastinator, I'm now getting things done in the first 10 seconds of the last minute.

Facts do not lie within biased opinions.

I hear a siren and, if we weren’t already in a hospital, I would have assumed they were coming for nearly everyone in this room.

Writing is the spectrum through which the chaos of life can be seen, studied and understood.

I can't seem to recall if I've ever had amnesia before.

My partner and I were going to renew our vowels, but the consonants revolted.

Is it a lucky break if you get run over by an ambulance?

By the time that adorable steak and I had become one flesh I could have taken on the whole Valmy clan singlehanded.

Hate is never a far cry from love… Sometimes I stumble the lines drunken.. Hollering your name..

Climate change. Urbanization. Biotechnology. Those three narratives, still taking shape, are developing a long arc likely to dominate this century.

I long to look at my holiday season with eyes that see the Christ in Christmas.

My ultimate authority would be the school librarian Mrs. Greenbacher.

Do animals understand the concept of dreams or do they think they enter another dimension when they get tired?

Even if he did explain it, no one would believe him because no one would understand him. That's the downside to being a genius - just because you understand something doesn't mean anyone else will.

Jealousy, that diseased crow pecking at your heart.

Newspapers abound, and though they have endured decades of decline in readership and influence, they can still form impressive piles if no one takes them out to the trash.

Perfectionism sucks the air out of your uniqueness and leaves you empty, away from who you could become.

Shame Sucker! You suck my joy away!You suck my fun away!You suck my happiness away!Shame, you suck!

It's not the error in the book, it's the thought that counts.

Sometimes, Reynie, trouble itself is the key. - Mr. Benedict

Only three constants are significant for star formation: the gravitational constant, the fine structure constant, and a constant that governs nuclear reaction rates.

[Hearing] was distinct from listening, which could only be achieved when hearing was combined with giving a shit.

I'm Irish yet I don't drink as I refuse to be a stereotype and live down to the expectations of others.

Yes sir, the fish was left in place of the crystal ball. It's been bagged and tagged for analysis.”Great. Now we have another red herring on our hands.

I marched to the head Elf. “Where’s the frog?

Don't bother asking for explanation, she'll just tell you that she came, in the year of the cat.

attraction, that's the farthest thing from an idea. That's an urge, an impulse, a force. It's subconscious, physical. You can't make everything cerebral.

...kissing me with a violence that was terrifying and yet, somehow, the summit of all my tenderest dreams.

You keep the title of 'president' even if you served only one term. The same goes for rapists.

The quickest way to run out of time is to think you have enough of it,

Where would we be without the success of our mothers?

People here had redwood trees in their backyards. You were never far from the infinite.

Mitch thought she looked like an angel might—if the angel had fallen very hard into a very naughty position.

The possible is just the impossible that we've come to accept,

Never hear anything bad about Canada that's one thing - in fact I guess it's the only thing.

Be content to stand in the light and let the shadow fall where it will.