Jon Foreman (Jonathan Mark Foreman) Quotes

Don't be discouraged, but know that suffering produces perseverance, perseverance brings character, and character brings hope, and this is a hope which will not disappoint us.

Jon Foreman

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• The first movie my dad ever showed me was 'Predator' – I was five. And I think the second one was 'Jaws.'

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Movie
  • Think
  • Dad

• In the best material, you always should be able to somehow make a case for a story to be transposed to any other time.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • Time
  • Best
  • Story

• I've never thought in terms of 'men do this' and 'women do that.'

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Men
  • Women
  • Thought

• I talk to myself quite a lot, and when things get stressful, I just tell myself to breathe.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Myself
  • Breathe
  • Talk

• Fishing ... is a sport invented by insects and you are the bait.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Fishing

• Only that position can impart dignity in which we do not appear as servile tools but rather create independently within our circle.

  

  Karl Marx

• I'm prone to breaking out on my chest and back because I work out a lot.

  

  Hannah Bronfman
  • Work

• I'm not auditioning to play convenience-store clerks. I don't see any benefit in that.

  

  Adhir Kalyan

• The songs will come as they come, and I'm excited because I haven't gotten to be really creative in a while. I'm excited to get back and do what I do and just write a song.

  

  Maren Morris
  • Song

• The greatest misfortune of the wise man and the greatest unhappiness of the fool are based upon convention.

  

  Franz Schubert
  • Wise
  • Fool

• Being a writer but also having been raised the way I was, I tend to turn to books for answers.

  

  Alexandra Fuller

• America demands invention and innovation to succeed.

  

  Kit Bond
  • America
  • Innovation

• The philistine provides the best definition of art. Anything that makes him rage is first class.

  

  Louis Dudek
  • Art

• The music for me is paradise. I think it's where God lives.

  

  Dionne Warwick
  • Music
  • God
  • Paradise

• I believe in allowing your child to be who they want to be - as long as they want to be something great.

  

  Ciara
  • Great
  • Believe
  • Long

• The U.S. is a complex country. It has a high predominance of immigrants who have been eminently successful.

  

  Azim Premji
  • Country
  • High

• Precision, speed, unambiguity, knowledge of files, continuity, discretion, unity, strict subordination, reduction of friction and of material and personal costs - these are raised to the optimum point in the strictly bureaucratic administration.

  

  Max Weber
  • Knowledge
  • Unity

• We're half an hour from Toronto, which offers everything you could want from a city, and a couple of hours from beautiful vacation country. We have it all here, plus George W. Bush is not our president.

  

  Linwood Barclay
  • Country
  • Beautiful
  • City

• Like fundamentalist Judaism and medieval Christianity, Islam is totalist. That is to say, it makes a total claim on the individual.

  

  Martin Amis

• Maybe you are homophobic a little bit, but then you see me, and you've always loved me, and you love the way I play, and your kids love me. And then you're like, 'Oh, that's OK. It's fine.' Once it gets a little bit more personal, it helps break down those barriers.

  

  Megan Rapinoe
  • Kids

• Drag me to the moon, to catch a star and seize its brilliance as I'm swept up in amorphous dust.

  

  Bradley Chicho
  • Up
  • Star
  • Moon

• A flock of sheep near the airport or a high voltage generator beside the orchard: these combinations open up my life like a wound, but they also heal it. That's why my feelings always come in twos.

  

  Yehuda Amichai
  • Life
  • Up
  • Why

• They learned no compassion from their own anguish. thus their suffering was wasted.

  

  Betty Smith
  • Suffering
  • Compassion
  • Anguish

• Don't be discouraged, but know that suffering produces perseverance, perseverance brings character, and character brings hope, and this is a hope which will not disappoint us.

  

  Jon Foreman
  • Hope
  • Suffering
  • Perseverance