Jo Jones Quotes
He's an enigma wrapped up in sensuality padlocked with a dozen chains of desire and topped off with a razor-sharp ribbon of danger. There are more layers to him than a billionaire's wedding cake.
It is true that I must run a great risk; no gallant action was ever accomplished without danger.
Marches work, rallies work, civil disobedience works, direct action works, voting works, writing letters works, speaking to churches and schools works, rioting works.
About a month before he died, my grandfather, we covered his back full of lard - after that he went downhill very quickly.
As I've told my three daughters, all of whom I've at one time encouraged to go into macro trading, any man or woman can do anything to which they set their heart and mind.
There is one thing I know for sure. You can become successful, if you are willing to pay the price for success.
In our resolve to build a better world... we seek to summon what Abraham Lincoln called the better angels of our nature.
Grace is free, but when once you take it, you are bound forever to the Giver and bound to catch the spirit of the Giver.
I am against performance-enhancing drugs. I have never taken them and I never will take them.
When Satan attacks you, command him in the Name of Jesus to bend his neck. On the back of it you'll find there's a nail scarred foot print!
Words impress me. If a man can speak eloquently and beautifully to me, I just melt on the floor.
When I am in pain, I must know that beauty always has been and always will be. This is as close to eternity as I need to be.
Characters with no integrity are just as interesting as characters with lots of integrity.
No director wants to be directed, but no good director... would shy away from the good ideas of others.
I never do what anyone else is doing. I could walk away from music and become a farmer or do some crochet. The worst thing in life for me is to do something I'm not happy doing.
Certainly Amadeus because it was a very powerful time for me, we filmed it in the Czech Republic at a time of lots of social and political change going on in that part of the world.
... we are there with our cameras to record reality. Once we start modifying that which exists, we are robbing photography of its most valuable attribute.
What is the chief end of preaching? I like to think it is this: It is to give men and women a sense of God and His presence.
Happiness isn't a thing. You can't go out and get it like a cup of tea. It's the way you feel about things.
Every artist has thousands of bad drawings in them and the only way to get rid of them is to draw them out.
I like words. Words are places, rooms, distant airs, thin and tropical. They make us feel and imagine we are more than our bodies.
You can't force inspiration. It's like trying to catch a butterfly with a hoop but no net. If you keep your mind open and receptive, though, one day a butterfly will land on your finger.
Doesn't it show us all that we are silly little boys or fatuous asses to think that we can play golf without making a lot of bad shots?
And I certainly don’t like the white supremacists and those whose religion is hating the Jews, period.
He don't know what it is to lose, so I gotta teach him something that he doesn't know yet.
Sometimes it is better to work out the map for yourself rather than have it given to you, in terms of learning.
Do you fear death? Do you fear that dark abyss? All your deeds laid bare. All your sins punished. I can offer you...an escape.
The Gospel is open to all; the most respectable sinner has no more claim on it than the worst.
There is no training, classroom or otherwise, that can prepare for trading the last third of a move, whether it's the end of a bull market or the end of a bear market.
The siren song of redistribution of wealth by centralized government never ceases for those who seek irreversible and unusurpable control over the lives and liberties of private citizens.
I was reading Omar Khayyam, Kahlil Gibran, Rumi, L. Ron Hubbard, all sorts of philosophy. Bebop cats are like that. Curious. I wanted to know about everything.
We must cease to think of the church as a gathering of institutions and organizations, and we must get back to the notion that we are the people of God.
I think that no matter how much you don't like yourself or the drama of your life you can still find some comedy in it.
