J. D. Vance Quotes

I almost failed out of high school. I nearly gave in to the deep anger and resentment harbored by everyone around me... Whatever talents I have, I almost squandered until a handful of loving people rescued me.

J. D. Vance

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• Appearance is something absolute, but reality is not that way - everything is interdependent, not absolute. So that view is very helpful to maintain a peace of mind because the main destroyer of a peaceful mind is anger.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Mind
  • Reality
  • Peace

• Illustrious acts high raptures do infuse, And every conqueror creates a muse.

  

  Edmund Waller
  • High
  • Muse
  • Conqueror

• I don't think I've ever sent a text to Gordon Brown because I'm confident that he would absolutely have no idea how to receive it. He barely managed to master WordPerfect 4.1.

  

  Ed Balls
  • Think
  • Idea
  • Text

• My parents would definitely be my childhood heroes.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Parents
  • Childhood
  • Heroes

• Singing, writing songs, is kind of my biggest fear, but it's the thing I feel I need to conquer.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Writing
  • Fear
  • Singing

• It is absolutely critical for competitiveness in the United States for us to really raise the bar in education, especially in math, in science, in technology.

  

  Safra A. Catz
  • Science
  • Education
  • Technology

• The end of secrecy would be the end of the novel - especially the English novel. The English novel requires social secrecy, personal secrecy.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • English
  • End
  • Personal

• A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life: he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Life
  • House
  • Man

• I normally don't endorse in Democratic primaries.

  

  Ed Rendell
  • Democratic
  • Normally

• I want to do everything in my power to ensure the equality between all movements of Judaism in the state of Israel: Orthodox, Conservative, or Reform. In conversions, in budgets, in the eyes of the law. No one can claim ownership over the Jewish God.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • God
  • Power
  • Law

• What you want to do, particularly when you're dealing with a professional sports league and franchises and people's passionate commitment to the game and for the team they root for is, it has to be sustainable.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • People
  • Game
  • Team

• I've lived in New York for 40 years. I came right after college.

  

  R. L. Stine
  • College
  • Years
  • New York

• There are a lot of people who consider themselves 'spiritual,' but that can mean a lot of things to a lot of people. I don't really talk about it that often, because there's too much talk in the world. Especially with Christians, there's more proselytizing than there is actual living proof of it. That's kind of sad.

  

  Zachary Levi
  • People
  • World
  • Spiritual

• Where there is Torah it sustains the world.

  

  Ovadia Yosef
  • World
  • Where
  • Torah

• Stealing things is a glorious occupations, particularly in the art world.

  

  Malcolm Mclaren
  • World
  • Art
  • Stealing

• I came back out here from England and I was there for a while and it was beautiful and it is just great to see London going from Spring to Summer and Autumn.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Great
  • Beautiful
  • Summer

• Sometimes, I sit down to sketch at the unearthly hour of 3 in the morning!

  

  Nafisa Joseph
  • Morning
  • Sometimes
  • Down

• The larger the disaster, the more necessary it is to have the government as the principal driver of recovery.

  

  Irwin Redlener
  • Government
  • Recovery
  • Principal

• If Wal-Mart invests a billion dollars and others invest $100 million, Wal-Mart is going to grow more.

  

  Carlos Slim
  • Grow
  • Others
  • Invest

• For many people in the music conservatory world, the message was always, Focus! 'You can't do everything; you really need to specialize.' And especially at an early age, I ignored this advice.

  

  Bryce Dessner The National
  • People
  • World
  • Music

• We'd have made more, but I kept forgetting to write songs down.

  

  Chris Lowe Pet Shop Boys

• Many a writer has spent his life putting his favorite words in all the places they belong; but how many, like E.E. Cummings, have spent their lives putting their favorite words in all the places they don’t belong, thus discovering many effects that no one had even realized were possible?

  

  Randall Jarrell
  • Life
  • Words

• I can't explain my feelings, I love the run-up and the stadium here.

  

  Yelena Isinbayeva
  • Love
  • Feelings
  • Explain

• I almost failed out of high school. I nearly gave in to the deep anger and resentment harbored by everyone around me... Whatever talents I have, I almost squandered until a handful of loving people rescued me.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • People
  • School
  • High