Jo Robinson Quotes

Bravery shared doesn't act like bravado among her own.

Hey Jake. I got an idea.''Be gentle with it, ' the Doc grinned. 'It's in a strange place.

After years of operating in a top-down manner that emphasizes control and conformance, organizations are rife with obstacles to bottom-up ideas that front-line staff are forced to overcome.

BALLS! We want the finest wines available to humanity. We want them HERE, and we want them NOW.

I've often been sorry to see a night end, even while I have loved seeing the dawn come.

I wondered if perhaps I'd gone mad. I had known this man less than twenty-four hours and already I wanted to raise his children.

Barefoot, exhausted and bloody, Harris Borden turned and left the underground prison that had been his home for the past twelve years and walked out into the Nevada desert.

He walked towards me. My heart was pounding like a nineties warehouse rave.

You are the most ludicrous excuse for a man I've ever known - but there isn't a centimetre of you that I don't think is perfect.

Before there was any water there were tides of fire, both our tones flow from the older fountain.

We lost track of which was which, but we were fairly sure that some of the creatures had been borne away still in the darkness of paganism, and that worried us a good deal.

It has been my experience that guilt can burst through the smallest breach and cover the landscape, and abide in it in pools and danknesses, just as native as water.

I have to start loving what comes next and stop hating I won't be a part of it.

I feel as if I am being left out, as though I’m some straggler and people can’t quite remember to stay back for me.

Somewhat paradoxically, the more that Africans and their descendants assimilated cultural materials from colonial society, the less human they became in the minds of the colonists.

Having her favorite breakfast always made her feel cozy, like a warm blanket was being wrapped around her.

…to own only a little talent…was an awful, plaguing thing….being only a little bit special meant you expected too much, most of the time.

You have a contribution to make and unique gifts to offer. It's time to stop listening to the voices that tells you that you're not good enough, won't make it, or don't have anything to offer.

When you fill your soul by listening to and acting on your intuition, you'll find yourself moving toward the fulfillment of your dreams.

Would you rather be right, or would you rather be happy?

Joy doesn't exist out in the world somewhere. Joy is an inside job.

When you have a dream and are committed to achieving it, your life takes on new meaning. By unfolding a dream, you discover what makes you happy and brings you joy.

Positive thinking may seem like a fairly basic thing, but I know people who, when asked if they understand the importance of positive affirmations, reply, "Yes! I'm positive things will not work out!

Learning to pay attention to how your body feels can offer you rich guidance about your choices and direction in life.

Was it possible to do both, to contribute to the world while merely observing it? To be content in the moment, but plan for the future? Could you follow your heart without losing all common sense?

There would be a general reclaiming of fallen buttons and misplaced spectacles, of neighbors and kin, till time and error and accident were undone, and the world became comprehensible and whole.

...knowing too that [the sky] was just a kind of rainbow made it glorious. A rainbow that was blue everywhere and covered everything.

To the end of this age. Oh, a thousand yearsWill Hardly leach, ” he thought, “this dust of that fire.

We think we are so strong but it is only when others try to prey on our weaknesses that we realize how frail we truly are.”-Skyla (from Twiceborn)

No matter where I went, where I’ve gone, what I’ve seen and what I’ve done…you have never not been wit’ me. You’ve always been my home.

We tell you, tapping on our brows, The story as it should be, As if the story of a houseWere told or ever could be.

We are apart so that I will know the joy of being with you again. Take care of yourself, wherever you are. Take care of yourself, wherever you are.

The moment we stop caring for one another regardless of race..is the moment we lose our humanity.

Some would say that they are terrorists. Others would say that they are freedom fighters. It depends on which side of the flames you are on...

Eliminate the overwhelming cost of phantom wars and fools' errands, and humankind might begin to balance its books. After all, its only debts are to itself.

We are all born with extraordinary powers of imagination, intelligence, feeling, intuition, spirituality, and of physical and sensory awareness. (p.9)

Glory had rehearsed angry outbursts in anticipation of his arrival. She began to hope he would come so she could tell him exactly what she thought.

Even as children they had been good in fact, but also in order to be seen as good. There was something disturbingly like hypocrisy about it all...

In that eternity of his, where everybody will be happy, how could he feel the lack of her, the loss of her?

If you thought dead was just dead, then you wouldn't have to worry about any of this.

I'm eating a massive pastrami sandwich. It's so beautiful I might cry. Just so you know.

I was going to write a sharp witty email full of devastating one-liners but I suspect you want something nicer than that

A voteless people is a hopeless people.

Greatness in the last analysis is largely bravery-courage in escaping from old ideas and old standards.

To some will come a time when change itself is beauty if not heaven.

Though Love be deeper Friendship is more wide.

Is life worth living? Aye with the best of us Heights of us depths of us- Life is the test of us!

Life is the game that must be played: This truth at least good friends we know So live and laugh nor be dismayed As one by one the phantoms go.

Love must have wings to fly away from love And to fly back again.

Hiding leads nowhere except to more hiding.