Jan Karon Quotes

I stepped out on faith to follow my lifelong dream of being an author. I made real sacrifices and took big risks. But living, it seems to me, is largely about risk.

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• Architecture is my work, and I've spent my whole life at a drawing board, but life is more important than architecture. What matters is to improve human beings.

  

  Oscar Niemeyer
  • Life
  • Work
  • Important

• Fortunately, in the place where I went out, they had set up a little previously a fence which prevented me finally from smashing against trees. I went out with a broken leg only. A small price to be paid at the time for an accident of this kind.

  

  Jacky Ickx
  • Up
  • Time
  • Small

• I think where we're still a little bit behind some other countries is just our pure soccer knowledge and our savvy on the field. That takes time and generations that have watched soccer growing up, played the game growing up.

  

  Landon Donovan
  • Up
  • Time
  • Game

• While teaching, I also worked undercover in the lower courts by saying I was a young law teacher wanting experience in criminal law. The judges were happy to assist me but what I learned was how corrupt the lower courts were. Judges were accepting money right in the courtroom.

  

  Samuel Dash
  • Money
  • Experience
  • Happy

• I think I'm very old-fashioned.

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Think
  • Very
  • Old-fashioned

• Humility is the gateway into the grace and the favor of God.

  

  Harold Warner
  • God
  • Grace
  • Humility

• We see entrepreneurship and small businesses and supply chains as a critical part of the economic growth and competitiveness agenda.

  

  Karen Mills
  • Small
  • Growth
  • See

• Jesus Christ was a patriot! His country was the world. His laws were the eternal principles of liberty, and his followers, in every age, have been the chosen champions of freedom!

  

  Orson F. Whitney
  • World
  • Country
  • Age

• In football, the result is an impostor. You can do things really, really well but not win. There's something greater than the result, more lasting - a legacy.

  

  Xavi
  • Football
  • Win
  • Legacy

• I am the luckiest novelist in the world. I was a first-time novelist who wasn't awash in rejection slips, whose manuscript didn't disappear in slush piles. I have had a wonderful time.

  

  Vikas Swarup
  • Time
  • Wonderful
  • Rejection

• When I was 13, I got my first guitar, and I could sort of play Ted Nugent songs, but I couldn't play the solos. But I could play along with entire Ramones songs.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Play
  • First
  • Guitar

• Democratic societies are unfit for the publication of such thunderous revelations as I am in the habit of making.

  

  Salvador Dali
  • Democratic
  • Revelations
  • Societies

• I know I'm happy and can't wait to see where my career will go next. This isn't the end for any of us. I can understand why they are upset but I want them to move forward and look for the future.

  

  LaToya London
  • Why
  • Happy
  • Future

• When I was young, I just sat down and started playing Chopsticks at the piano. I got so far and then lost interest. Eventually, I regained it and started writing songs.

  

  Otis Blackwell
  • Writing
  • Lost
  • Down

• When I was young I had an apprenticeship as an engineer.

  

  Yves Rossy
  • Young
  • Had
  • Engineer

• We have several million Muslims in France who are mostly moderates or non-practicing. If they feel that it is the only subject in public debate, they won't feel at home and will be tempted to withdraw to their communities.

  

  Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
  • Home
  • Debate
  • France

• What I learned with tech companies is I gotta give people room to experiment, and also to make what might later on be a mistake. This is the attitude I want to build within San Francisco - give some time to the tech community.

  

  Ed Lee
  • People
  • Time
  • Community

• When I talk about my husband, I feel as if people roll their eyes. It's like when you're 16 and order a martini, and the waiter says, 'Do you think I'm stupid?'. They can't grasp that I'm old enough to be married.

  

  Megan Fox
  • People
  • Eyes
  • Husband

• The condition of rage is one in which I find myself starting my day - once I see the news headlines.

  

  Val McDermid
  • Day
  • Myself
  • Find

• I laughed on the way home, and I laughed again for sheer satisfaction when we reached the garden and drove between the quiet trees to the pretty old house; for when I went into the library, with its four windows open to the moonlight and the scent, and looked round at the familiar bookshelves, and could hear no sounds but sounds of peace, and knew that here I might read or dream or idle exactly as I chose with never a creature to disturb me, how grateful I felt to the kindly Fate that has brought me here and given me a heart to understand my own blessedness, and rescued me from a life like that I had just seen -- a life spent with the odours of other people's dinners in one's nostrils, and the noise of their wrangling servants in one's years, and parties and tattle for all amusement.

  

  Elizabeth von Arnim
  • Dream
  • Library
  • Satisfaction

• Everything which distinguishes man from the animals depends upon this ability to volatilize perceptual metaphors in a schema, and thus to dissolve an image into a concept.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Animals
  • Image
  • Metaphors

• I hope to be around past the 90's. I don't want to just be categorized as one of this era. My goal is to have a career that stands.

  

  Mariah Carey
  • Hope
  • Career
  • Goal

• I stepped out on faith to follow my lifelong dream of being an author. I made real sacrifices and took big risks. But living, it seems to me, is largely about risk.

  

  Jan Karon
  • Real
  • Dream
  • Faith