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 don't wear a lot of color because I live in New York, and I'm sort of color-blind, so colors don't match to me a lot of the times, and it makes me anxious. So I'll always defer back to black.

  

  Verite
  • Live
  • Black
  • Color

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

  

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

• For every athlete, it is very important to be able to engage in their favorite thing, give all the best in training, performing in competitions, defending the honor of the motherland.

  

  Fedor Emelianenko
  • Important
  • Best
  • Training

• 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

• Forget not, O Lord, that I am one of those whom Thou hast created, and with Thine own blood hast redeemed. I repent me of my sins: I will strive to amend my ways.

  

  Saint Ambrose
  • Lord
  • Created
  • Sins

• 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

• People's ideas and fears can make them small but they cannot make you small. People's prejudices can diminish them but they cannot diminish you. Small-minded people can think they determine your worth. But only you can determine your worth.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • People
  • Small
  • Ideas

• 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'm sharpest early, and though I can rewrite any time, day or night, I'm useless after noon when it comes to writing first draft.

  

  Hallie Ephron
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Night

• Honestly, I would never say, 'Oh, I've decided not to read 'The Left Hand of Darkness' because I've seen 'Blade Runner.' I've decided not to read 'Neuromancer' because I've seen 'Blade Runner.''

  

  Laeta Kalogridis
  • Hand

• Verum Scriptura omnis in duo Testamenta diuisa est. Illud quod aduentum passionemque Christi antecessit, id est lex et prophetae, Vetus dicitur; ea uero quae post resurrectionem eius scripta sunt, Nouum Testamentum nominantur. Iudaei Veteri utuntur, nos nouo.

  

  Lactantius

• Quis iustius induit armascire nefas: magno se iudice quisque tuetur;Victrix causa deis placuit sed victa Catoni.

  

  Lucan

• The tithe is God's historical method to get us on the path of giving. In that sense, it can serve as a gateway to the joy of grace giving. It's unhealthy to view tithing as a place to stop, but it can still be a good place to start.

  

  Randy Alcorn
  • Gods
  • Historical
  • Method

• 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