Jeanette Quotes

Know your enemy, but don't give him all your energy.

Anybody who leads with hate, is not fit for leadership.

The riskiness of Art, the reason why it affects us, is not the riskiness of its subject matter, it is the risk of creating a new way of seeing, a new way of thinking.

History is a hammock for swinging and a game for playing.

The past is magnetic. It draws us in.

History is a madman's museum.

If you stop feeding strife, it will eventually lead to a peaceful life.

What you're going through is not meant to hurt you, but meant to deliver you from the evil oppressing you.

Often the thing that brings you the most pain is the very thing that will lead you to the most gain and your breakthrough.

If you dump the fear of failure, you will eventually marry success.

The reason you’re going through what you’re going through is to receive the things you’ve been praying for.

Detroit is big enough to matter in the world and small enough for you to matter in it.

Courage is not the absence of fear, it's to feel the fear and face it anyway.

Infatuation. First Love. Lust. My passion can be explained away. But this is sure: Whatever she touches, she reveals.

Passion is sweeter split strand by strand. Divided and re-divided likemercury then gathered up only at the last moment.

Passion out of passion's obstacles.

Passion is not such an emotion as a destiny.

Children do not find fault with their parents until later. In the beginning, the love you get is the love that sets.

Nowadays people talk about the things he did as though they made sense. As though even his most disastrous mistakes were only the result of bad luck or hubris.

Saddest of all are the woman who were brought up to believe that self-sacrifice is the highest female virtue.

Examine this statement: ‘A woman cannot be a poet.’ Dr Samuel Johnson (Englishman 1709-84 Occupation: Language Fixer and Big Mouth.) What then shall I give up? My poetry or my womanhood?

The curious are always in some danger. If you are curious you might never come home, like all the men who now live with mermaids at the bottom of the sea.Or the people who found Atlantis.

Only later, much later, too late, did I understand how small she (Mrs Winterson) was to herself. The baby nobody picked up. The uncarried child still inside her.

It was Hell, if hell is where the life we love cannot exist.

The inside and the outside of our lives are each the shell where we learn to live.

Don't let the fear of failure keep you away from your Destiny.

The greater the destiny, the greater obstacles you’ll have to overcome. No great destiny comes without great challenges and sacrifices.

It’s better to die pursuing your dreams and destiny, than to live a life in fear of failure.

When your destiny is calling, answer The call.

Atlas said, 'Must my future be so heavy?' Hera said, 'That is your present, Atlas. Your future hardens every day, but it is not fixed.' 'How can I escape my fate?' 'You must choose your destiny.

You are creating your future with the thoughts, words and choices you are making in the present.

There will be a future. We believe in our unreality too strongly to give it up.

Anything is possible for she who believes. Believe you can and you're halfway there.”Jeanette Coron

But if what can exist does exist, is memory invention or is invention memory?

Look up. This is the season of shooting stars. Light, two thousand years old, still dazzling. Let me see your face. Your face lit up by twenty centuries.

I think therefore I am. Does that mean 'I feel therefore I'm not'? But only through feeling can I get at thinking.

Time: Change experienced and observed. Time measured by the angle of the turning earth as it rotates through its axis. The earth turning slowly on its spit under the fire of the sun.

Why is it that human beings are allowed to grow up without the necessary apparatus to make sound ethical decisions?

Everyone who tells a story tells it differently, just to remind us that everybody sees it differently

The words come at my call but who calls whom?

No matter how dark the night may get, your light will never burn out.

Your test is to forgive those who have hurt you, when you pass your test you will see your breakthrough

If someone puts you through hell, don’t be mad or bitter about it, because the thing that will free you from that hell is forgiveness.

Perhaps it is worse when love has flowed freely to find it one day dammed.

Walk with me, memory to memory, the shared path, the mutual view. Walk with me. The past lies in wait. It is not behind. It seems to be in front. How else could it trip me as as I start to run?

Walk with me, memory to memory, the shared path, the mutual view. Walk with me. The past lies in wait. It is not behind. It seems to be in front. How else could it trip me as I start to run?

There's no choice that doesn't mean a loss.

This skin cripples me. It always has. — Kai Cheng Thom to -----, 2013 (age 22)

My grandmother whispering to herself, over and over, "David is in heaven now, David is in heaven now, ' my mind repeating Schrodinger's Cat, Schrodinger's Cat.

A book is a magic carpet that flies you off somewhere. A book is a door. You open it. You step through. Do you come back?