Jan Karon Quotes
Well, I think some people are very happy in retirement. And in a year and a half I'm going to see how happy I feel in retirement. I'm just going to not work quite so hard, but I'll continue to write as long as God gives me breath.Jan Karon
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A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.
Babasaheb -
If someone is sad, they put on a song, or if someone wants to rock out, and they want to get into a good mood, they put on music. Just being able to be a part of something like that I feel like was my ultimate push to do music.
Adam Hicks -
Your body is your temple, it's your home, and you must decorate it.
Gabourey Sidibe -
We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion.
T. S. Eliot -
I'm a chubby middle-aged white guy with short hair. I think that's it, really. I kind of have a look. Right now, I'm not fat enough to be the fat friend, but I'm not thin enough to be the leading man, so I look like a cop.
Aaron Douglas -
With the dreary season in which we travelled part of the route; with our minds much more actively employed in forming resources for our preservation from famine.
Zebulon Pike
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To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization.
Harriet Beecher Stowe -
Americans have the right under the Second Amendment to own firearms, and that is not going to change.
Wendy Davis -
I love work where I can find out more about the world and its history.
Barbara Sukowa -
Our leaders are acting like lemmings.
Jack Herer -
I am an unrepentant tweetaholic. I use the communications service all day long to discover news, interesting tidbits and, of course, to flack the work of our tech and media news site, Re/code.
Kara Swisher -
Everything was in stark and dreadful contrast with the trivial crises and counterfeit emotions of Hollywood, and I returned to England deeply moved and emotionally worn out.
C. S. Forester
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Many African-American men are incarcerated. And so African-American women do carry an enormous burden. And traditionally have carried a greater burden than perhaps their white counterparts.
Faye Wattleton -
Beauty is the promise of happiness.
Edmund Burke -
I can remember the first time I ever recorded my vocals on to a beat. Cat Coore from Third World - a legendary Jamaican band - had a little demo set up at his house. I'm very good friends with his eldest son, Shiah, who plays with me now. So we were rhyming over a track by the dancehall artist Peter Metro. I've still got it somewhere.
Damian Marley -
My father never forced me, but chemistry was my best subject.
Yusuf Hamied -
I write and rewrite and rewrite and write and like to turn in what I think is finished work.
Gay Talese -
I think slavery is the next thing to hell. If a person would send another into bondage, he would, it appears to me, be bad enough to send him into hell if he could.
Harriet Tubman
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If I'm not on tour or in the studio, I'm in nature somewhere, usually some kind of ocean. Playing music has afforded me that. It's not lost on me that it's a tremendous opportunity to be able to spend your life being surrounded by nature.
Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam -
Video games in some ways are too powerful, they have too much resonance with kids. And it's very easy to overdose on video games and to let the outside world go by.
Nolan Bushnell -
We're all looking for a plan that will work. The current plan is not working, and 21,500 additional troops - it's a snowball in July. It's not going to work.
Arlen Specter -
Kuhn was the intellectual of whom many scientists said he's 'telling it as is it is' insofar as talking about a process of 'tinkering' in terms of theory and experiment followed by radical changes. But often, what Kuhn had in mind were some very spectacular incidents in the history of the sciences that changed our way of looking at the world.
Ian Hacking -
People are going to criticize you no matter what, so I'm going to say whatever the hell I want to say.
Lili Reinhart -
Well, I think some people are very happy in retirement. And in a year and a half I'm going to see how happy I feel in retirement. I'm just going to not work quite so hard, but I'll continue to write as long as God gives me breath.
Jan Karon