Jo Graham Quotes

Faith is loved and honored by God more than any other single thing.

We need to make a greater investment in human intelligence.

Like my dad, I have a Christmas party most years. I like to celebrate and see as many people as possible.

I'm often dating people, but I don't say it because you sort of know it won't last long.

Just the idea to have everything you need essentially stored in one piece of portable technology is very exciting.

I grew up before computers. Computers are changing things, not all for the good.

He had stylized himself--life was easier that way. He had chosen a physical mould just as writer chooses a technical form.

I didn't grow up identifying with beauty. I grew up thinking I could be smart and funny - those are the things I got feedback on.

I refused to believe that love could take any other form than mine: I measured love by the extent of my jealousy, and by that standard of course she could not love me at all.

There is an undeniable exhilaration in moment of even the smallest discovery

I can never think of you as a friend. You can do without a friend.

All my jobs have been with food in one way or another since 1948. My parents were in the hotel business, and I just loved the warm hearted people who worked so hard with such good humor.

Once again, I've been thwarted by the massive difference between my vision of the successful me and the me I'm currently stuck with.

There has always been, for me, this other world, this second world to fall back on--a more reliable world in so far as it does not hide that its premise is illusion.

I have never understood why people who can swallow the enormous improbability of a personal God boggle at a personal Devil.

She was not too young to be wise, but she was too young to know that wisdom shouldn't be spoken aloud when you are happy.

I have had national security background, 10 years on the Intelligence Committee, the last two years as chair.

How quick and rushing life can sometimes seem, when at the same time it's so slow and sweet and everlasting.

Bad dogs, she believed, were like most bad children: created by those around them. But then, that was a personal opinion.

Anyone can smile on their best day. I like to meet a man who can smile on his WORST.

During the Cold War, we gathered information by listening to the Soviets, taking pictures of the Soviets, and we allowed our human intelligence to decline.

The thing I don't like on television is when somebody does something that makes absolutely no sense just for the shock of it.

I think most Americans understand that radical Islam can't be compromised with or appeased. And the only way we can be safe is to form partnerships over there that will protect us over here.

If 'Obama-care' becomes fully implemented in 2014, it's going to bankrupt states.

I think the worst thing in the world is to have the courts decide who to target in the war on terrorism. And courts are not military commanders.

I don't think most people would want me to have a business relationship as a senator where my business partners can reap the benefit of my position and I one day get the share the profits.

We don't have enough American troops inside of Iraq to destroy ISIL any time soon.

The parts for women, you're either like the quietly suffering wife or the wild girl.

Most people are one car wreck away from needing somebody's help. So, I don't take anything for granted much anymore.

The worst nightmare in the world is a radical Islamic regime with a weapon of mass destruction.

I am convinced that people are open to the Christian message if it is seasoned with authority and proclaimed as God's own Word.

I would love to end the nuclear ambition of the Iranians without firing a shot, but you have to know who you're talking to and what they actually want, this is North Korea in the making.

I consider my voice to be a centrist moderate voice among the nine Democratic candidates.

Writing a memoir isn't particularly interesting to me. I'm not like Ellen [DeGeneres], where I can write, 'Water bottles--they're crazy!' and it's funny.

He (man) is both dust of earth and breath of God.

Tea Party to establishment from social conservative to libertarian, we all - what people want more than anything is they don't just want a fighter. They want someone who fights and wins.

Think of working forever at something you love to do, for one you love with all your heart, and never getting tired! We will never know weariness in heaven.

You cannot serve god and mammon. You have to make a choice.

I'm nice, and I show up on time.

If I can't dance, I don't care if my dances are ever done again!

I'd pay more just to hear proper English and have everyone keep their clothes on

Well, thank God for a media that will ask questions.

Well, it's more of a sane life to be part of an ensemble! I find that the work can be more specific too and I have to really make sure I know where I am in the story because I'm not in every scene.

None of my characters have really had jobs.

I take the no-doughnut pledge, and then I break it.

Actors should ACT. Not sell perfume, or write cookbooks.

The end of the world begins the moment you die.

When the creator of the show is gone, the actors end up being the people who have been there the longest.

My childhood years were a balance of dark and light.

I'd rather an audience like me than dislike me, but I'd rather they disliked me than be apathetic, because that is the kiss of death.