Jo Graham Quotes

History is only a tiresome repetition of one story.

Some believe strongly that each Christian may have his own guardian angel assigned to watch over him or her.

I never have known a man of ordinary common-sense who did not urge upon his sons, from earliest childhood, doctrines of economy and the practice of accumulation.

I hope we follow Mr. Snowden to the ends of the Earth to bring him to justice.

Iran is part of the problem, not the solution. And the Russian government is ignoring reality.

The great hindrance to the development of this continent has lain in the lack of capital.

Today, more pastors than ever need profound encouragement and rejuvenation.

To me, my grandfather’s urgency to preach the Gospel one more time to a lost and dying world is the definition of 'finishing well,' and it’s such a blessing and lesson.

Moreover, there is an unearned increment on capital and on labor, due to the presence, around the capitalist and the laborer, of a great, industrious, and prosperous society.

The world I'm interested in is the one where things are not named.

I think comedy is the most difficult thing in the world, I really do.

In society it is etiquette for ladies to have the best chairs and get handed things. In the home the reverse is the case. This is why ladies are more sociable than gentlemen.

I believe one thing: that today is yesterday and tomorrow is today and you can't stop.

Some of you are doomed to be artists.

Every dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart. The instrument through which the dance speaks is also the instrument through which life is lived ... the human body.

I want to make people feel intensely alive. I'd rather have them against me than indifferent.

We throw all our attention on the utterly idle question whether A has done as well as B, when the only question is whether A has done as well as he could.

All things I do are in every woman. Every woman is Medea. Every woman is Jocasta. There comes a time when a woman is a mother to her husband. Clytemnestra is every woman when she kills.

It is often said that the earth belongs to the race, as if raw land was a boon, or gift.

Sometimes it's blood memory... not the blood your mother and father gave you... but that which stretches back two or three thousand years.

For a driver to be driven by somebody else is an ordeal, for there are only three types of drivers: the too fast, the timid and oneself.

When some people retire, it's going to be mighty hard to be able to tell the difference.

Prayer never works for me on the golf course. That may have something to do with my being a terrible putter.

God has not promised to bless my thoughts, but He has promised to bless His Word.

The Bible is clear - God's definition of marriage is between a man and a woman.

Without the resurrection, the cross is meaningless.

I [will] not go to heaven because I am a preacher. I am going to heaven entirely on the merit of the work of Christ.

God is more interested in your future and your relationships than you are.

I never knew a man who had better motives for all the trouble he caused.

I don't think anyone is free - one creates one's own prison.

I am less interested in ghosts than in people who see ghosts.

Amazing, really, to think of what a man could achieve with the simple ability to put pen to paper and spin a decent yarn.

The lobby is the army of the plutocracy.

Look, I happen to agree with what George says about the interpretation of the New Testament, but I want to remind both of you to never play God.

I sometimes mistake my typewriter for my teeth, because the more I bite the more my column will be read.

It hurts to leave a light on for nobody.

If the bible proves the existence of God, then Action Comics prove the existence of Superman.

Every hour of every day, at every level in every organization, influential people succeed and non-influential people don't.

Parents teach their children to look both ways when crossing the street. They tell them to look only one way when choosing a religion.

Every successful work of God must have opposition.

Life is not a chain of events but an area-something spreading out from a hidden centre and welling at once toward all points of the compass.

One's life is more formed, I sometimes think, by books than by human beings: it is out of books one learns about love and pain at second hand.

Martin Luther King (Jr.) during the civil rights movement used to exclaim that he looked forward to heaven where he would be "Free at last." That is the inscription on his tomb in Atlanta.

So long as one is happy one can endure any discipline: it was unhappiness that broke down the habits of work.

The next best thing to talking to her is talking about her.

Everyone wants to be an "expert" on social media and share their opinion behind the keyboard.

Ann Winder-Boyle's small-scale encaustic pictures always reward a second look - they have an intriguing edge of darkness about them.

Would the world be in the mess it is if we were loyal to love and not to countries?

The trouble is I don't believe my unbelief.

The truth is that cupidity, selfishness, envy, malice, lust, vindictiveness, are constant vices of human nature.