Cleve Jones Quotes

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• The Swiss can be very difficult.

  

  Yves Behar
  • Difficult
  • Very
  • Swiss

• Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • Men
  • Think
  • Where

• Don't worry whether or not I am now happy. Today is only chapter one, we have yet to write a book.

  

  Lois Wyse
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Happy

• I think certainly he's concerned that he's not going to get the endorsement, but we understood what the rules were from the beginning and we ought to stick to the rules.

  

  Lynn Swann
  • Beginning
  • Rules
  • Understood

• There are no unrealistic goals, only unrealistic deadlines.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Goal
  • Goals
  • Deadline

• The predominant quality of successful people is optimism.... Your level of optimism is the very best predictor of how happy, healthy, wealthy, and long-lived you will be.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • People
  • Long
  • Happy

• I've often met people who are terrified, you know, in a straight jacket of their own making because they'd rather do anything that fail. They don't want to try for fear of failing.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • People
  • Fear

• I am told that you regret not what you did but what you didn't do; and so that's why I do everything, so as not to have any regrets.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • Why
  • Regret

• I am very annoyed about this issue. Why can’t it be a choice? Why is that any less legitimate? It seems we’re just ceding this point to bigots who are demanding it, and I don’t think that they should define the terms of the debate. I also feel like people think I was walking around in a cloud and didn’t realize I was gay, which I find really offensive. I find it offensive to me, but I also find it offensive to all the men I’ve been out with.

  

  Cynthia Nixon
  • People
  • Men
  • Thinking

• Why make so much of fragmentary blue. In here and there a bird, or butterfly, Or flower, or wearing-stone, or open eye, When heaven presents in sheets the solid hue?

  

  Robert Frost
  • Why
  • Heaven
  • Blue

• Those who say that I will lose and am finished will have to run over my body to beat me.

  

  Said Aouita
  • Running
  • Athlete
  • Motivational

• Just because a person is young doesn’t mean that being loyal to someone isn’t important. And it still hurts if someone isn’t loyal to you.

  

  Christie Craig
  • Important

• I don't have any tattoos but I've thought about getting Ernie, from Bert and Ernie, on my earlobe. He made a big impression on me as a kid. And I have pretty big earlobes.

  

  J Mascis
  • Pretty

• I discovered that what most people call creepy, scary, and spooky, I call comfy, cozy, and home.

  

  Zachary Alexander Bagans
  • People
  • Home
  • Scary

• The first thing to get clear about Christian morality between man and man is that in this department Christ did not come to teach any brand new morality. The Golden Rule of the New Testament (Do as you would be done by) is a summing up of what everyone, at bottom, had always known to be right.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Up
  • Men
  • Done

• Fine feelings, new insights, greater interest in ʿreligionʾ mean nothing unless they make our actual behavior better.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Mean
  • Feelings
  • Behavior

• London was a real dump in the 70s, when it belonged to me and my friends, because, like most cities, you kind of hand them off. You're in charge for a bit and then you don't go out anymore. You say, "Oh god, it's going to be too crowded."

  

  Nick Lowe Brinsley Schwarz
  • Real
  • Kind
  • Hands

• I've almost been hit by a lot of things in New York City. I am pretty sure I have almost been hit by a bike messenger before.

  

  Sasha Pieterse
  • Cities
  • Bike
  • Messengers

• The pure perfect truth of life is that we are here to create heaven on earth, to bring the perfection of what is above down to us, and in doing so to become transformed as human being into something great and beautiful.

  

  Kathleen McGowan
  • Beautiful
  • Perfect
  • Human

• The fact that some of these Arab states are willing to make this public is heartening, and it's a fair response to the Sharon government for the courage which the Sharon government has shown in moving out of Gaza and those four West Bank settlements.

  

  Jack Straw
  • Moving
  • Courage
  • Public

• The whole function of cities has been transformed.

  

  Cleve Jones
  • Cities
  • Function
  • Transformed