Jo Bell Quotes
Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things and I'll show you a man who cannot be trusted to do big things.
He was just a coward and that was the worst luck any many could have.
If it is true, if it is beautiful, if it is honorable, if it is right, then claim it. Because it is from God. And you belong to God.
Many spiritual teachers - in Buddhism, in Islam - have talked about first-hand experience of the world as an important part of the path to wisdom, to enlightenment.
There will be no mass-based feminist movement as long as feminist ideas are understood only by a well-educated few.
We thread our way through a moving forest of ice-cream cones and crimson thighs.
I may have made a straight A in physics, but I was panic-struck. Physics made me sick the whole time I learned it.
I buried my head under the darkness of the pillow and pretended it was night. I couldn't see the point of getting up. I had nothing to look forward to.
She stared at her reflection in the glossed shop windows as if to make sure, moment by moment, that she continued to exist.
It would follow that 'significant form' was form behind which we catch a sense of ultimate reality.
One of the things I find most exciting is talking with people who are working with my work. Who are using it in some way with their life to address everyday politics of meaning.
Class is rarely talked about in the United States; nowhere is there a more intense silence about the reality of class differences than in educational settings.
I stayed with them for about a year up there and, at night, worked over in Long Island at a club called The High Hat Club which was like a pseudo jazz / blues place.
Comedy is like expensive cheese. Well, it's like cheese, in general. Everybody likes what they like, and everything they don't like, they think is the worst.
You might not agree with something, but it doesn't mean you don't need to listen to it. White people have to accept that they don't always know about racism.
The only thing worse than working acting in an airplane is working in a prison - they're cold, and the clanging and the noise, it just gets under your skin after a week.
I live in Florida, and I live on a small lagoon. I sit and look out at the water all day - that's what my desk is.
To indoctrinate boys into the rules of patriarchy, we force them to feel pain and to deny their feelings.
Of all the definitions of love that abound in our universe, a special favorite of mine is... “the will to extend one's self for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth.”
The word "love" is most often defined as a noun, yet al the more astute theorists of love acknowledge that we would all love better if we used it as a verb.
Questions are not scary. What is scary is when people don’t have any. What is tragic is faith that has no room for them.
Look at the size of the universe and look at what we're discovering about string theory. There's a wide-eyed sense of we're just getting started here.
The function of art is to do more than tell it like it is-it’s to imagine what is possible.
It is better to be fully present and rested and engaged for one thing than rushed, distracted, and scattered for ten.
My experience as a pastor is lots of people have really toxic, dangerous, psychologically devastating images of God in their head, images of a God who's not good.
I believe that God is love. I believe that Jesus came to show us this love, to give us this love, to teach us about this love, so that we could live in this love and extend it to others.
I'm partial to coffee shops, brain work, and poems on the page. I write after midnight. Sometimes, twisty syntax happens, and I surrender.
I had a lot of insecure moments in high school. It wasn't all peachy keen. But, I don't necessarily think that I hated high school and wanted to crawl into a hole either.
Almost every Marine I've met says I portray a Marine dead-on, which is really, really flattering.
People think I'm crazy and reckless but I'm absolutely not... I'm soooo safe and soooo careful and I won't do anything that feels like I could break something.
Neither the Army nor the Navy is of any protection, or very little protection, against aerial raids.
The final result of our researches has widened the class of substances sensitive to light vibrations, until we can propound the fact of such sensitiveness being a general property of all matter.
People who lie, cheat and steal in relationships are communicating that they have such an inferior view of themselves that they are not worthy of another's trust.
The longer mathematics lives the more abstract - and therefore, possibly also the more practical - it becomes.
The very basis of creative work is irreverence! The very basis of creative work is bold experimentation. There has never been a creator of lasting importance who has not also been an innovator.
The three principal trends affecting how we do business in the newspaper production industry might best come under the headings: automation, diversification, distributed print.
Play every day. I don't know. I'm not sure what kind of advice I would give. You just have to do it every second that you can.
When you have a child, you are just immediately changed forever. You put yourself second. Your child comes first, and everything that you do is with them in mind.
When all the girls were getting all made up and getting into all that girl stuff in junior high I was out playing softball or touch football with the guys.
I never realised that the Edinburgh skyline was so interesting - it's gothic and very urban and there's a lot of church spires and old brownstone buildings.
