Jon Foreman (Jonathan Mark Foreman) Quotes

When our world falls apart and we have no more faces to wear - that’s when it’s beautiful, and that’s when we change.

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• Liberals are always proposing perfectly insane ideas, laws that will make everybody happy, laws that will make everything right, make us live forever, and all be rich. Conservatives are never that stupid.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Live
  • Happy
  • Forever

• If you were black, you experienced prejudice. It wasn't a real horrible thing for us; we went through it. We noticed it mostly in the South and in Las Vegas, where we couldn't stay in the hotels where we entertained. But that began to change.

  

  Harold Nicholas
  • Real
  • Black
  • Change

• What I have found most surprising is the amount of damage we have done to environment in the course of my lifetime - not even five and a half decades.

  

  Pat Cadigan
  • Done
  • Environment
  • Most

• But Charlie, Charlie, how can we ever really know anything? Charlie, what or who is God?

  

  Edgar Bergen
  • God
  • Know
  • Ever

• I don't want to talk about negative, dark things. The only thing I've got against stuff like Marilyn Manson is, they make unbelievable videos and unbelievable images.

  

  Sammy Hagar Van Halen
  • Want
  • Dark
  • Negative

• Around the world, climate change is an existential threat - but if we harness the opportunities inherent in addressing climate change, we can reap enormous economic benefits.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • World
  • Change
  • Opportunities

• What I always loved about theater is that that's an experience that a company of actors just sinks itself into for weeks, and you really get to work on the material, and by the time you're in front of an audience, you really own it.

  

  Zeljko Ivanek
  • Time
  • Work
  • Experience

• I want to have a long career.

  

  Haley Bennett
  • Long
  • Career
  • Want

• When I was a child, I was one of the kids who wore black all the time, and when the kids asked me why I wore black, I said things like, 'I'm mourning the death of modern society.' I mean, I was a riot.

  

  Maggie Stiefvater
  • Time
  • Why
  • Kids

• I made that first record in 2008, alongside the EP, but my label at the time waited three years to release it. They thought maybe someone bigger would buy it, but they didn't, so in the end they just released it themselves.

  

  Lana Del Rey
  • Time
  • Thought
  • End

• The whole of society is like a cabbage-stalk covered with caterpillars, and none is satisfied till it has crawled to the top.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Society
  • Satisfied
  • Top

• Only buy clothes that you plan to keep forever. It's important to see trends for what they are: a game.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Important
  • Game
  • Forever

• I don't even think I'll see all of 'The Mist' until I'm 18. I'm going to the premiere, but I'll close my eyes during the scarier scenes.

  

  Nathan Gamble
  • Think
  • Eyes
  • See

• Quit thinking that you must halt before the barrier of inner negativity. You need not. You can crash through... whatever we see a negative state, that is where we can destroy it.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • Thinking
  • Negative
  • Negativity

• Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • Education
  • Forgotten
  • Been

• Yes, the upper reaches of society are still dominated by men.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Men
  • Society
  • Yes

• One of the things I really learned from my first term is the importance of focusing. In that sense, it is a deliberate effort. What I look at with each vote is that priority of whether it's good for the middle class or not.

  

  Dan Maffei
  • Good
  • Effort
  • Priority

• He who wishes to paint Christ's story must live with Christ.

  

  Fra Angelico
  • Live
  • Story
  • Wishes

• I think Paul Weitz is a really amazing director, obviously with tons of acclaim and stuff, but I still think he is underrated. And I think he's amazing to work with, so I was super lucky.

  

  Nat Wolff
  • Work
  • Think
  • Amazing

• I hate to express political ideas directly in a book. I don't want my books to be seen as an expression of this or that political idea. At the same time I want to show a kind of rebellion and transgression, something further.

  

  Abdellah Taia
  • Book
  • Political
  • Ideas

• I have to trust that there is a force greater than me that also knows and sees this, and breathes with it and knows that it's part of a grander plan, and all the good things people do matter.

  

  Caroline Myss
  • People
  • Breathe

• I realized that if I don't like something, I can change it. If I don't feel comfortable with something, then I have a voice to say it's not cool.

  

  Zendaya
  • Change
  • Cool
  • Voice

• I feel it most in my work, because there aren't roles about women who are spiritually evolving. That anyone would even write something like that, something that's worth doing, would be a miracle!

  

  Olympia Dukakis
  • Work
  • Women
  • Doing

• When our world falls apart and we have no more faces to wear - that’s when it’s beautiful, and that’s when we change.

  

  Jon Foreman
  • Change
  • Faces
  • Wear