J.R. Ward Quotes

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.

You are so beautiful, he mouthed. But of course she couldn’t see his lips. Guess he was going to have to show her.

Do more than be fair: be kind.

We are most like beasts when we kill. We are most like men when we judge. We are most like God when we forgive.

The greatest failure is the failure to try.

Man, like the bridge, was designed to carry the load of the moment, not the combined weight of a year at once.

A grindstone that had not grit in it, how long would it take to sharpen an ax? And affairs that had not grit in them, how long would they take to make a man?

Memory can glean, but can never renew. It brings us joys faint as is the perfume of the flowers, faded and dried, of the summer that is gone.

Character, like porcelain-ware, must be painted before it is glazed. There can be no change of color after it is burned in.

God forgive me if I do wrong in following with ardor the strongest instincts of my nature.

We, women of one country, Will be too tender of those of another country To allow our sons to be trained to injure theirs.

In the family, happiness is in the ratio in which each is serving the others, seeking one another's good, and bearing one another's burdens.

October is the opal month of the year. It is the month of glory, of ripeness. It is the picture-month.

Guys ask me, 'Why are you always smiling?' Are you kidding? I'm in the NFL, that's why!

Among the problems with shame was that it in fact did not make you shorter or quieter or less visible. You just felt like you were.

My whole life I've been trying to prove people wrong. I ended up beating everything.

I think you might dispense with half your doctors if you would only consult Dr. Sun more.

The best way to get the right answer on the Internet is not to ask a question, it's to post the wrong answer.

I am not a politician, and my other habits are good, also.

Of all man's works of art, a cathedral is greatest. A vast and majestic tree is greater than that.

The more patient we are, the more understanding we become.

But Tudor mansions on manicured grounds didn't look right with their grand front doors wide open to the night. It was like a debutante flashing her bra thanks to a wardrobe malfunction.

Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.

Beauty may be said to be God's trademark in creation.

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.

Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.

Nothing bubbled up from the depths. For once, the present was so alive and captivating that the past was not even an echo or a shadow-she was, in this moment, wiped clean.

The gaps in power, the gaps in wealth, the gaps in ideology which hold the nations apart also make up the abyss into which mankind can fall to annihilation.

Quick question. Does this magical skill with gray matter come with a total lack of compunction for your kind, or is it just you who were born without a conscience? V: I beg your pardon?

Downright admonition, as a rule, is too blunt for the recipient.

A success is one who decided to succeed and worked. A failure is one who decided to succeed and wished.

What are the rules," The cop said. "There are none." Vishous spread his stance and braced himself. "Do whatever you want...but you have to break me. You've got to tear me apart.

The real democratic American idea is, not that every man shall be on a level with every other man, but that every man shall have liberty to be what God made him, without hindrance.

Our greatest challenge-our greatest opportunity-is found in these words: 'Choose ye this day....'.

The result desired by the state is a wholly different one from that desired by parents, guardians, and pupils.

Life is like a cup of tea, the sugar is all at the bottom!

Laws are not masters but servants, and he rules them who obey them.

I'm hoping that I'll be able to find a distributor to come into Canada with it, because I think it is a wild and crazy romp that really tells things like it is.

Because when I looked at you across that table at the diner, no one else existed. And whether or not anything happens between you and me, it took meeting you to show me what I was missing.

My mom used to tell me, 'I live every day of my life for you.' I understand that now. The older I get, the more I understand.

Christmas can be the end of emptiness and waywardness; The beginning of happiness and purposefulness.

If U.S. foreign policy results in massive death and destruction abroad, we cannot feign innocence when some of that destruction is returned.

The Bible is God's chart for you to steer by, to keep you from the bottom of the sea, and to show you where the harbor is, and how to reach it without running on rocks or bars.

Bad deeds like beauty, are in the eye of the beholder.

Men's best successes come after their disappointments.

Gambling with cards or dice or stocks is all one thing. It's getting money without giving an equivalent for it.

Opportunity is often difficult to recognize; we usually expect it to beckon us with beepers and billboards.

The more generous we are, the more joyous we become.