Jan Karon Quotes
I remember the first time I held my book, my first book in my hands. I cannot tell you how it moved me.
Quotes to Explore
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Sooner or later the space program will need to save us by detecting and deflecting an incoming asteroid.
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I think I was probably an early teenager when I discovered Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey and a bunch of people that are on a long list of artists. They were important to me, especially as an early adolescent.
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I want to direct what I feel is interesting - not what is supposed to be my zone.
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To be at ease is better than to be at business. Nothing really belongs to us but time, which even he has who has nothing else.
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People forget I go to work. They forget that the Coleridge house was bought and paid for by the daughter of a travel agent and a barmaid from what the actor Richard Burton once described as the nightmarish 'featureless suburb' of Croydon.
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I'm very open-minded.
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This is the beauty of fiction. We may not like these characters, but we inhabit them.
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As Mayor, I will use my experience to make San Francisco a place where small businesses can thrive.
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I've taken my clothes off enough in my career.
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I think that it's the love of God that brings man into repentance. Once you embrace that love and have that fellowship with God, all those things that you shouldn't be doing will go away.
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Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
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If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government.
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Democracy requires common ground on which all can stand, but that ground is sinking beneath our feet, and democracy may be going down the sinkhole with it.
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It's so hard to be the girl in a country song, so we're speaking up.
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Like most people, there are things I love about Amazon. It's cheap, it's fast, and it's at my doorstep. But Amazon will never replace the important role my local indie plays in my community.
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Neither does man have gills for living in a water environment; yet it is not sinful to explore the depths of the oceans in search of food or other blessings.
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Conflict is always the right thing to do when it matters.
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Contrary to what many Westerners believe, Islam has a rich tradition of secular painting in spite of its ban on images. It is only in religious rituals that the use of pictorial representation is totally prohibited.
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My goals aren't really commercial success.
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The new spirituality will step away from dogma, will step away from 'We're right and you're wrong.'
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Everybody's funny-looking.
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When you think of how history is revealed, we know certain things to be facts at certain periods of time, which turn out not to be so factual as time marches on.
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My father was a construction worker most of his life. My mother, when she came from Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, to the United States, never had a chance to go to college either and became a clerical worker. But they did nothing but build this country.
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I remember the first time I held my book, my first book in my hands. I cannot tell you how it moved me.
