William Carey Jones Quotes

The joy of brightening other lives, bearing each others' burdens, easing other's loads and supplanting empty hearts and lives with generous gifts becomes for us the magic of Christmas.

William Carey Jones

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• No one wants to work with a difficult star. I want to be the nice guy.

  

  Ram Kapoor
  • Work
  • Guy
  • Want

• Cricket is my first love.

  

  Yohan Blake
  • Love
  • Cricket
  • First Love

• Yes, I was the child who would sneak into her closet and read 'Nancy Drew' for hours after the designated 'lights out' time of night.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Time
  • Night
  • Child

• If you call 'religious' a man who believes in what I call a Supermeaning, a meaning so comprehensive that you can no longer grasp it, get hold of it in rational intellectual terminology, then one should feel free to call me religious, really.

  

  Viktor E. Frankl
  • Man
  • Free
  • Religious

• I hate losing and cricket being my first love, once I enter the ground it's a different zone altogether and that hunger for winning is always there.

  

  Sachin Tendulkar
  • Love
  • Winning
  • Losing

• At a certain moment the canvas began to appear to one American painter after another as an arena in which to act-rather than as a space in which to reproduce, re-design, analyze or express an object, actual or imagined. What was to go on the canvas was not a picture but an event.

  

  Harold Rosenberg
  • American
  • Space
  • Picture

• I well recall my emotions when I came upon the grave of Beethoven in the Central Friedhof, with its incomparable guard of honor - Mozart, Schubert, Gluck, Brahms, Hugo Wolf and Johann Strauss!

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Honor
  • Wolf

• If General Motors is worth $60 a share to an investor it must be because the full common-stock ownership of this gigantic enterprise as a whole is worth 43 million (shares) times $60, or no less than $2,600 million.

  

  Benjamin Graham
  • Stock

• I love sports. I was an athlete in high school, and my school was so small we didn't have a football team, so it's the one sport I didn't bother to learn the rules to because I never went to game.

  

  Katie Aselton
  • School
  • High
  • Game

• Normally, I love to go to the movies and when I see a character portrayed by different actors at different ages, it kind of pops a little bit for me. It brings me out of the movie experience. Now we have the technology to cure that.

  

  Jeff Bridges
  • Different
  • Character
  • Experience

• You know people just assume, 'Well, all my life I'll be a worrier.' That doesn't have to be true. There's a way to drink from God's presence so much that worry begins to dissipate.

  

  Max Lucado
  • People
  • Life
  • God

• Maintaining a positive working relationship with Mexico's leadership will also be crucial to increasing communication and trade. I plan to personally maintain those relationships.

  

  Doug Ducey
  • Relationship
  • Positive
  • Leadership

• I always see Beethoven as having been influenced by Haydn. Yet he started a revolution - not just to be different, but also because he lived in a revolutionary era.

  

  Andris Nelsons
  • Different
  • Revolution

• The writers I respect the most had an undying commitment to a vision.

  

  Jewel Kilcher
  • Respect
  • Vision
  • Commitment

• I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself.

  

  Marlene Dietrich
  • Joy
  • Thoughts

• Generally, there are three rules when it comes to borrowing money: You need to have good credit, proof of income and cash for a down payment. Most people have the first two, but it's the third that trips them up. And nowhere does that come into play more than the mortgage market.

  

  Jean Chatzky
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• I know intimately the struggle of trying to live your life and be yourself while feeling the pressure of an entire community on your shoulders.

  

  Janet Mock
  • Life
  • Live
  • Trying

• The Iraq war was fought by one-half of one percent of us. And unless we were part of that small group or had a relative who was, we went about our lives as usual most of the time: no draft, no new taxes, no changes. Not so for the small group who fought the war and their families.

  

  Bob Schieffer
  • Time
  • War
  • Small

• I will never say never, but I can tell you right now - I am perfectly happy with being who I am. I just - I really - I'm an entertainer, and the thing that I'd decided to work on was my career, and I decided the energy that I was putting in certain relationships - I was really kind of wasting my time, and I knew it.

  

  Loni Love
  • Time
  • Work
  • Happy

• What I like about Elvis is the same thing I like about James Brown, Michael Jackson, Prince. These guys, back in the day, there was no smoke and mirrors. It was just raw talent. They would step out onstage and command an audience. Talk about awesome.

  

  Bruno Mars
  • Awesome
  • Prince

• I enjoyed art in school. I've always done little drawings and stuff like that. I don't really know what I'm doing with the painting, but I experiment.

  

  Alex Lifeson Rush
  • School
  • Done
  • Art

• Reputation runs behind the current state of affairs.

  

  Mason Cooley

• Credit expansion and money printing hasn't filtered much to ordinary people. It's boosted asset markets, real estate and stocks. So well-to-do-people have done very well.

  

  Marc Faber
  • People
  • Real
  • Money

• The joy of brightening other lives, bearing each others' burdens, easing other's loads and supplanting empty hearts and lives with generous gifts becomes for us the magic of Christmas.

  

  William Carey Jones
  • Christmas
  • Holiday
  • Empty