I. J. Good Quotes

dream interpretation were ways of converting our little personal miseries into big robust myths

There ain't nothin' that makes a man feel more alive than white-hot desire.

Even now, as a vampire, the fear of addiction ruled her world.Would she ever be free?

Now is the only time you have. Change is happening. Give up your desire to control the world

When the going gets tough, the tough gets going.

The sign of the victorious communities are that they forbid evil

An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything, and in this lies the great distinction between great man and little man.- Thomas Fuller

Sophie: "For the Create-A-Tale Competition, your story ended with Snow White eaten by vultures and Cinderella drowning her-self in a tub."Agatha: "I thought it was a better ending.

Reasoning can take you wherever you want to go.

Quite alone. No voice, no touch, no hand....How long must I lie here? For ever? No, only for a couple of hundred years this time, miss....

Love is the canvas covering the furniture that you've become a part of

A hero is someone who is selfless.

You always need to work hard. You always need to be willing to work hard. Not everything will be hard, but you should, at the very least, be willing to work hard.

While having one’s assertions challenged might be bad for an unintelligent man’s ego

...joy we find when we realize God's deep desire to partner with everyday, normal people using their talents to do good.

We live in the tension between neophillia, or attraction to new things, and neophobia, or fear of new things.

I will not allow anxiety dictate the terms of my life

And then his arms were around me. When he kissed me it was hungrier somehow, as if this moment was all we had, and we had to taste it, drink it, savor it, and not waste a single drop.

Life is hard. People can't be trusted. Vigilance is key. Be wise about whom you love, and when you do love, do it with every fiber of your being...'til death do you part.

Skate, if it were possible to choose who we fall in love with, no one would ever get it done, because we’d all be chasing after this ideal person who doesn’t even exist.

The course of true love rarely runs smooth.

Career isn't about making money as everyone makes something. Rather it's a way of living that would create memorable memories to look back and smile

Getting accepted or rejected is based on factors for a job is mere for selection and not the result. Life has bigger results awaiting to face! Face it with a smile!

Surrender and sacrifice sets you up for success with God.

We must teach our girls that if they speak their mind, they can create the world they want to see. (145)

How this life speeds right by, the odometer forgetting how fast it sped. Grinding the foot and pressing the metal, not counting road side markers ahead

There are many ways a self-respecting (not to mention sane) teenage girl might react to having a teenage boy suddenly in her bedroom in the middle of the night.Hit.Panic.Flail.Freeze.

I spread eggshells all over my room, so anyone who tries to get close when I sleep will know what they're walking on

positivity is the father of reinvention

If positivity is not your mindset, then reset

If you take things the wrong way, be aware of which end is up

Democracy is a poor system

Time is the ultimate democracy. Rich and poor, young and old, male and female: all have 24 hours in a day and 7 days in a week.

The more degrees of freedom there are in practice, the wider the discussion and debate can be.

A good tanto is a nasty thing, and when the point entered a human neck, it was like the last period in a biography.

We live in a world that has walls and those walls need to be guarded by men with guns.

But stupid things have a gravity and a momentum of their own

My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them.-Bono

President Mandela was never scared to admit his own mistakes and then almost jump at the opportunity of apologising and then to move on.

I guess we're all composed of a lot of mistakes

Where God's grace takes you, grace will increase your capability and your capacity. Grace will empower you.

God's grace will not take you where it cannot keep you.

Lucifer, how, after a dozen millennia in Hell, could you possibly lose your way?" the Devil asked incredulously. "Well, " the lesser demon began, "It is a rather large place...

There's a quote of hers [Lucille Ball] that I've always loved: 'I guess I would rather regret the things I've done than to regret the things I've never done.

You will never truly know yourself, or the strength of your relationships, until both have been tested by adversity.

It is not a crime to commit First Degree Writing

How to preside over your own internal disorder? Finding the "I" that can represent the pack of you is the first challenge of the memoirist.

People who violate your boundaries are thieves. They steal time that doesn’t belong to them.

Babbage had most of this system sketched out by 1837, but the first true computer to use this programmable architecture didn’t appear for more than a hundred years.

If you don't fall down now and again, it just means the training wheels are working