Jan Karon Quotes

I try to put my heart out there to everybody. They don't have to be Christian. For example, I have lots of Jewish readers. I love my Jewish readers.

Jan Karon

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• If I categorized home runs that I've seen, without a doubt the monumental one is Henry's... but I've seen a lot of classic, great home runs. Gibson's was probably the most theatrical home run I've ever seen.

  

  Vin Scully
  • Great
  • Home
  • Doubt

• I'm advocating that American citizens interested in democracy should stay out of chain stores.

  

  Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.
  • American
  • Democracy
  • Chain

• I want to stay alive. Yeah, I want to stay alive. I think that's the main thing. If there's a chance I can live longer, I want to do it.

  

  Jack Ramsay
  • Live
  • Want
  • Chance

• Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • War
  • Peace
  • Winning

• In my next life, I want to be a housecat. Naps all the time!

  

  Laura Anne Gilman
  • Life
  • Time
  • Want

• My mother was madly adventurous. My father was an actor - he worked with Gielgud - and my mother came from a very wealthy family. She definitely wasn't meant to marry an actor, but she eloped with him one lunch-time.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Time
  • Family
  • She

• The woman who purposely destroys her unborn child is guilty of murder. With us there is no nice enquiry as to its being formed or unformed.

  

  Saint Basil
  • Nice
  • Woman
  • Child

• Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Woman
  • Begins
  • Man's

• I dropped out of NYU, moved out of my parent's house, got my own place, and survived on my own. I made music and worked my way from the bottom up.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Up
  • Music
  • House

• I think of myself as a plain human being who happens to be an American.

  

  Laura Z. Hobson
  • American
  • Think
  • Myself

• And my music is always such a release of what I feel inside, an impulse.

  

  Zola Jesus
  • Music
  • Feel
  • Release

• When it comes to age, I just feel like puberty is, like, the most horrible time of anyone's life.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Life
  • Time
  • Age

• I have always been, and shall continue to be, honest when it comes to bodyweight issues.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Always
  • Honest
  • Been

• Leadership must be likeable, affable, cordial, and above all emotional. The fashion of authoritarian leadership is gone. Football is about life. You can't be angry all day.

  

  Vicente del Bosque
  • Life
  • Day
  • Fashion

• Let women issue a declaration of independence sexually, and absolutely refuse to cohabit with men until they are acknowledged as equals in everything, and the victory would be won in a single week.

  

  Victoria Woodhull
  • Men
  • Women
  • Single

• I love my early movies, but naturalism is an artist's early style. Now I want to deal with feelings, dreams, an acceptance of irrationality.

  

  Irvin Kershner
  • Love
  • Feelings
  • Dreams

• I did make a choice when I got away from baseball to be there to get my kids off to college.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
  • Kids
  • College
  • Baseball

• In all honesty it was easier to believe it in cool Long Island for its very outrageousness where nobody believed anything very seriously than in hot Carolina where everybody was a Christian and found unbelief unbelievable.

  

  Walker Percy
  • Believe
  • Long
  • Cool

• The transfiguring touch was to come, it seemed from a girl's lips; but it had not; he kissed, and life remained uncharmed. ...at the bottom of his heart, he was still expecting the transfiguring touch to come, some day, from something he was to obtain or do, perhaps to-morrow.... Then he had by accident found out the sigil's power...

  

  James Branch Cabell
  • Life
  • Heart
  • Power

• Somehow, in the novel format, I don't really like to do upfront, ideological discussion. In my heart, literature remains a poetic and ambiguous medium. On the other hand, I trained as a documentary filmmaker in film school, so my films very much reflect reality and socio-political problems. They're less subtle I would say.

  

  Xiaolu Guo
  • School
  • Heart
  • Political

• I try to put my heart out there to everybody. They don't have to be Christian. For example, I have lots of Jewish readers. I love my Jewish readers.

  

  Jan Karon
  • Heart
  • Christian