Jo Graham Quotes

In a mad world it always seems simpler to obey.

Dancers today can do anything; the technique is phenomenal. The passion and the meaning to their movement can be another thing.

I have always considered myself as an Agnostic.

Thrillers are like life, more like life than you are.

Christmas it seems to me is a necessary festival; we require a season when we can regret all the flaws in our human relationships: it is the feast of failure, sad but consoling.

We make the best choices when we have invested all of our energies, our hearts, and our souls into a course of action that leads to the accomplishment of goals we are passionate about.

Having a vision for your life allows you to live out of hope, rather than out of your fears.

Whatever you love most, be it sports, pleasure, business or God, that is your god!

The Spirit goes ahead of us when we witness--- preparing the way, giving us the words, and granting us courage.

You never put off until tomorrow or even this afternoon what you can do this morning. Attack the objective when your desire is strongest.

All my life I've been taught how to die, but no one ever taught me how to grow old.

We have found that marriage should be made up of two forgivers. We need to learn to say, "I was wrong, I'm sorry." And we also need to say, "That's all right, I love you."

I believe one of the next great moves of God is going to be through the believers in the workplace.

If God can be fully proved by the human mind, then He is no greater than the mind that proves Him.

At the time I started in ballet they were dancing 'The Spirit of Champagne' on pointe, in Paris. I thought, 'I don't want to dance the spirit of champagne, I want to drink it!

Childhood was the germ of all mistrust. You were cruelly joked upon and then you cruelly joked. You lost the remembrance of pain through inflicting it.

Like some wines our love could neither mature nor travel.

To me, a building - if it's beautiful - is the love of one man, he's made it out of his love for space, materials, things like that.

We forget very easily what gives us pain.

People talk about the courage of condemned men walking to the place of execution: sometimes it needs as much courage to walk with any kind of bearing towards another person's habitual misery.

He's satisfied with himself. If you have a soul you can't be satisfied.

Successful investment may become substantially a matter of techniques and criteria that are learnable, rather than the product of unique and incommunicable mental powers.

It's not my job to look beautiful. It's my job to look interesting.

For an artist to think in terms of success is like a priest trying to think in terms of success.

Prayer is speaking to God - but sometimes He uses our times of prayerful silence to speak to us in return.

I say that home is where there is a chair and a glass.

It was like having a box of chocolates shut in the bedroom drawer. Until the box was empty it occupied the mind too much.

I believe that I have received Jesus Christ into my heart. I believe that he has covered all of my sins.

A man kept his character even when he was insane.

If there are any tears shed in heaven, it will be because we prayed so little.

It is the storytellers task to elicit sympathy and a measure of understanding for those who lie outside the boundaries of State approval.

Sentimentality - that's what we call the sentiment we don't share.

When you start with an idea, or something hits you, then you have to follow that through to the end, and it's the following through to the end that makes the pattern. That, for me, is choreography.

A solitary laugh is often a laugh of superiority.

Heresy is only another word for freedom of thought.

If you could work your way to heaven, you would said look what I did, I got myself here by my good works. The only way you are going to make it is to come to that Cross.

You're born. You suffer. You die. Fortunately, there's a loophole.

It's the faster bands that made me want to play guitar, bands like The Jam.

I am absorbed in the magic of movement and light. Movement never lies. It is the magic of what I call the outer space of the imagination.

I need the spiritual revival that comes from spending quiet time alone with Jesus in prayer and in thoughtful meditation on His Word.

I am really bad at actually interviewing people.

If you don't make a decision then time will make it for you and time will always side against you!

The investor's primary interest lies in acquiring and holding suitable securities at suitable prices.

In my experience the difference between a straight and a bisexual is about four pints

I bet Maurice Gibb's heart monitor was singing the tune of Stayin' Alive.

A comedian's a comedian. They're a very kind of cynical bunch. I guess that's why I like them.

Wall Street has a few prudent principles; the trouble is that they are always forgotten when they are most needed.

If our lives are easy, and if all we ever attempt for God is what we know we can handle, how will we ever experience His omnipotence in our lives?

Knowing we will be with Christ forever far outweighs our burdens today! Keep your eyes on eternity!

Truly, God works in mysterious ways. The wheels of His mercy and justice move quietly, but they do move.