quotes about jesus

It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966



I always thought it was a ridiculous name for a prison. Sing Sing, I mean. Sounds more like an opera house. ~From the movie Breakfast at Tiffany's, 1961, screenplay by George Axelrod, based on the novella by Truman Capote, spoken by the character Holly Golightly



Why does everybody stand up and sing "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" when they're already there? ~Larry Anderson



If you're not a rebel by the age of twenty, you've got no heart, but if you haven't turned establishment by thirty, you've got no brains. ~Swimming with Sharks, 1994, written & directed by George Huang, spoken by the character Buddy Ackerman played by Kevin Spacey



Not being able to govern events, I govern myself. ~Michel de Montaigne



They say princes learn no art truly but the art of horsemanship. The reason is the brave beast is no flatterer. He will throw a prince as soon as his groom. ~Ben Jonson, Discoveries Made Upon Men and Matter and Some Poems, "Illiteratus princeps"



A cat is a puzzle for which there is no solution. ~Hazel Nicholson



I'd rather have a goddam horse. A horse is at least human, for God's sake. ~J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye



The race is not always to the swift, but to those who keep on running. ~Author unknown, in reference to Ecclesiastes 9:11, "I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all."



The poet sees things as they look. Is this having a faculty the less? or a sense the more? ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827



You are fastened to them and cannot understand how, because they are not fastened to you. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin



You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him. ~James D. Miles



Speed in tennis is a strange mixture of intuition, guesswork, footwork and hair-trigger reflexes. Many of the players famed for quickness on court would finish dead last in a field of schoolgirls in a race over any distance more than ten yards. ~Eugene Scott



Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe



Dancing faces you towards Heaven, whichever direction you turn. ~Terri Guillemets



A rainy day is the perfect time for a walk in the woods. ~Rachel Carson



Emotion turning back on itself, and not leading on to thought or action, is the element of madness. ~John Sterling



Life is an incurable Disease. ~Abraham Cowley



Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter. ~Mark Twain



I'm not asleep... but that doesn't mean I'm awake. ~Author Unknown