Jo Stafford Quotes

Violent statements and threats cannot provide a solution to the problem. They can only exacerbate feeling and make a clash of forces inevitable.

Gandhi has asked that the British Government should walk out of India and leave the Indian people to settle differences among themselves, even if it means chaos and confusion.

If we nurture the dreams of children, the world will be blessed. If we destroy them, the world is doomed!

Security of character would be like a compass, you know? Other people may say that this way is north, or this way might be north. But the compass just says -- north. That's what we count on.

Literature is not a picture of life, but is a separate experience with its own kind of flow and enhancement.

Just know this: What you will do among children is as close to the heart of God and central to his kingdom as anything we could mention.

Once you decide to do right, life is easy, there are no distractions.

Nurturing a child’s sense of personal worth and therefore hope and dreams for a wonderful future is perhaps the most important responsibility of every grownup in a child’s life.

If God places a child before you, and you are too busy to wield either a positive or negative influence...you just did the later! You communicated that the child doesn't matter and isn't important.

The strategies that managers employ are at least as important as the facilities at their disposal.

I'm a Frisbeetarian. We worship frisbees. We believe when you die your soul goes up on the roof and you can't get it down.

Songwriting is an art unto itself, not to be confused with performing.

I just learned my lyrics and tried not to bump into the trumpet player. That was my philosophy.

I've got a computer, but I won't go near it.

It is not yet too late for the Indian people to decide on rapid, ordered progress. I can assure them that the British people are as determined upon self-government for India as they are themselves.

So, the world happens twice-- once what we see it as; second it legends itself deep, the way it is.

A poem is a serious joke, a truth that has learned jujitsu.

Others may be able to accept standards from another, but an artist is a person who decides.

You were aimed from birth: you will never be alone... The whole wide world pours down.

I spend half my time comforting the afflicated, and the other half afflicting the comfortable.

I’m convinced that one of the most powerful forces on earth is the prayer of a child.

So why is a third of our world battling obesity and spending huge sums to burn off excess calories, while the other two-thirds yearn to get more of them?

A stochastic process is about the results of convolving probabilities-which is just what management is about, as well.

There is, then, a logical priority about the arrangements, and logic has nothing to do with time.

I wasn't driven. I just really loved what I did.

The world is a pile of grunge.

I had a very unusual contract. Most artists actually pay for their record dates and it comes out of their royalties. I paid for nothing.

We must now allow ourselves to be blinded to long-term developments by the intensity of the short-term difficulties.

An owl sound wandered along the road with me. I didn't hear it--I breathed it into my ears.

When a goat likes a book, the whole book is gone, and the meaning has to go find an author again.

One way to find your place is like the rain, a million requests for lodging, one that wins, finds your cheek: you find your home.

Keep a journal, and don't assume that your work has to accomplish anything worthy: artists and peace-workers are in it for the long haul, and not to be judged by immediate results.

Policy-making, decision-taking, and control: These are the three functions of management that have intellectual content.

Language can do what it can’t say.

You can treat experience as a set of surprises on which to exercise your quirky self.

A student comes to me with a piece of writing, holds it out, says, 'Is this good?' A whole sequence of emergencies goes off in my mind. That's not a question to ask anyone but yourself.

We absolutely must battle with every bit of determination we can muster to root out the harm that would warp the souls and spirits of children in our world.

A church begins to die when it says, ‘They were just children.

Smoking wildwood flower got to be a habit, we didn't see no harm. We thought it was kind of handy, to take a trip and never leave the farm.

Songs suffer at the mercy of the performer.

I'll probably never put out another album because I'm a tough critic of my work, and I don't think I could come up to those standards any more.

Whatever fame came did so not because I sought it.

Science is a set of rules that keep the scientists from lying to each other.

Every vivid memory holds some essential truth about your vision of the world

It is fundamental to Socialism that we should liquidate the British Empire as soon as we can.

To be compassionate in this hurting world means it will cost you something.

There is nothing to be intimidated about - it's just another long run where a few more people show up and they happen to wear numbers.

What’s your cause? Does it move you to tears? What is it that moves you passionately?

The root and the flower have to trust each other. If the root does not trust, the plant won't blossom.

It is as if the ordinary language we use every day has a hidden set of signals, a kind of secret code.