J. D. Salinger Quotes

If you weren't around, I'd probably be someplace way the hell off. In the woods or some goddamn place. You're the only reason I'm around, practically.

J. D. Salinger

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• God's not thinking about your mistakes, failures or shortcomings. No, His thoughts toward you are good.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Good
  • God
  • Thinking

• My father always said I have a face for radio, and 'Cloverfield' was one of my finest pieces of work.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Work
  • Father
  • Face

• I was always falling in love at a very young age - kindergarten is when I can remember. There was always a crush. And when I was in sixth grade, I started picking up guitar, so I started wanting to write about it and sing about it.

  

  Babyface
  • Write
  • Young
  • Falling

• I don't really understand what the public perception of me is. I think public perception and reality are two wholly different things.

  

  Tamara Mellon
  • Different
  • Reality
  • Me

• Men, in fact, are excited and looking forward to settling down and having families and being true partners with women in relationships that are full of excitement, unpredictability, adventure, and loyalty.

  

  Ian K. Smith
  • Men
  • Women
  • True

• The answer is, who you are cannot be defined through thinking or mental labels or definitions, because it's beyond that. It is the very sense of being, or presence, that is there when you become conscious of the present moment. In essence, you and what we call the present moment are, at the deepest level, one.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Thinking
  • Present
  • Moment

• Austin is almost a million people, but it still feels like a relatively small town. Everybody knows each other. Or at least everyone in the filmmaking community.

  

  Gabriel Luna
  • People
  • Small
  • Community

• Cornering is like bringing a woman to climax.

  

  Jackie Stewart
  • Like
  • Woman
  • Bringing

• Many can argue that it is our power of intelligence that is the key to the human domination of our planet. I suggest that it is the ability to put our thoughts into words that can be communicated to others.

  

  Yehuda Berg
  • Power
  • Words
  • Thoughts

• It is obvious that no difficulty in the way of world government can match the danger of a world without it.

  

  Carl Clinton Van Doren
  • World

• Ugly. Is irrelevant. It is an immeasurable insult to a woman, and then supposedly the worst crime you can commit as a woman. But ugly, as beautiful, is an illusion. A matter of taste, a whim, an eye, a beholder, an opinion, a spin, light crossing the frame, paint, projection. The moment. Context.

  

  Margaret Cho
  • Beautiful
  • Light
  • Opinion

• What's needed is patience and composure. The bank deposits of the Greek people are fully secure. The same applies to the payment of wage and pension - they are also guaranteed.

  

  Alexis Tsipras
  • People
  • Patience
  • Greek

• Are we not still guilty, if to a less violent degree, of recklessness, of improvidence with regard to our future and our humanity? War is not the only arena where peace is done to death. Wherever suffering is ignored, there will be the seeds of conflict, for suffering degrades and embitters and enrages.

  

  Aung San Suu Kyi
  • Done
  • War
  • Future

• I'd really love to play a real-life country and western singer.

  

  David Keith
  • Life
  • Country
  • Real

• It's very unusual for scenes to be added for a character.

  

  Jennifer Ehle
  • Character

• The only thing that's a little tricky about it is sometimes people assume that if it's a new song, it's a reflection of what you're feeling or going through now.

  

  Richard Marx
  • People
  • Song
  • Feeling

• Whoever makes an attempt on a man's life, on a man's liberty, on a man's honour inspires us with a feeling of horror in every way analogous to that which the believer experiences when he sees his idol profaned.

  

  Emile Durkheim
  • Life
  • Feeling

• Our customers' business interests are heavily dependent on the oil and gas industry.

  

  Karen Katz
  • Business

• Have I caught my heav'nly jewel.

  

  Philip Sidney

• There are very few real teachers. Teaching is not a job; it is a vocation. To be a great one many qualities must be combined: love of truth, knowledge, reverence, loving concern for one's students, clarity and patience.

  

  Alice von Hildebrand
  • Teaching
  • Qualities
  • Vocation

• I played in school jazz bands and tried to start rock bands, but nobody was interested.

  

  Courtney Barnett
  • School
  • Rock

• I entreat students of letters and other scholars to obey their masters in things good, to imitate them, and diligently apply themselves to letters for the sake of God's honour and their own salvation and that of other men.

  

  Jan Hus
  • Good
  • God
  • Men

• Death is for many of us the gate of hell; but we are inside on the way out, not outside on the way in.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Death

• If you weren't around, I'd probably be someplace way the hell off. In the woods or some goddamn place. You're the only reason I'm around, practically.

  

  J. D. Salinger