Jean-Jacques Cadet (J-Live) Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I had 45 amateur fights, and I was able to win two national titles in those three years as an amateur.
-
It is time for Hillary Clinton to permanently retire.
-
When we begin to desire a thing, to yearn for it with all our hearts, we begin to establish relationship with it in proportion to the strength and persistency of our longing and intelligent effort to realize it.
-
If I'm daring at all, I guess it would be emotionally. I try to keep things interesting for myself and to do things that challenge me.
-
Greetings and death to our enemies.
-
I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.
-
Some campaigns are not worth waging if you can't win; others have to be fought on grounds of principle regardless of the chances for success.
-
When I was young, about 18 or 19, I read all the Dostoyevsky novels, which made me want to go to St. Petersburg. So I went, and I was so inspired.
-
I'm all over the place, and I consider myself a bit of a scrounger: 'What will I do next, so I'm not broke?'
-
Sometimes words are harder than blows.
-
My husband wrote the story for my first book, but then he didn't want to do that anymore. So if I was going to go on being an illustrator, I had to start writing the stories, too.
-
I developed in my head that I'm never any better than my last concert or the last time I played, so it's like an audition each time. You get nervous just before going onstage. I still have that, but I think it's more like concern. You're concerned about the people - like meeting your in-laws for the first time.
-
Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.
-
Typically, a book is published and gets one season in the sun. Eventually, you write another book, and maybe your old books get a bump, but my books seem to keep being discovered and recommended to new people of all ages.
-
Exploiters and manipulators have always used religion self-righteously to further their own selfish ends.
-
If you're not careful, you can fall into a destructive cycle of self-pity.
-
You're going to change as you grow older, and that messes up a lot of relationships.
-
Once imbued with the idea of a mission, a great nation easily assumes that it has the means as well as the duty to do God's work.
-
It's best not to stare at the sun during an eclipse.
-
The revolution is carried out by means of one's thought, not through one's family background.
-
For an American, as mad you may be about whatever the EPA or the IRS does, just imagine if you only had a one twenty-eighth vote over what it does. You were in this place with this big bureaucracy that sets rules, and you only have a small vote. You'd feel like you've given up your sovereignty, wouldn't you?
-
The poor get worked, the rich get richer,
