I. J. Good Quotes
Alcoholism is a choice... not a life sentence.
If you let all the bad thing in life stop you
The urge to draw near to the female silhouette resided deep in the ancient center of a man...
Carpenter: "Call Shen Te, someone! She's good!"Shui Ta: "Certainly. She's ruined.
Love can be simply stated to be the desire of the human being to integrate oneself with other selves in such a way that one starts feeling the pain and pleasure of another person as if of one’s own.
May you tear each other to bits, you damned hyenas, and the quicker the better. Let it be destroyed. Let it happen. Let it end, this cold insanity.
George, I know you’re tired. But President Lincoln, he didn’t free us to be lazy and no good. He freed us to work hard and improve ourselves.”-George’s Grandmother.
When we believe that God expects us to try hard to become who Jesus wants us to be, we will live in that blurry, frustrating land of Should Be rather than trust in The One Who Is.
Don't try to nice your way out of this. It's insulting.
I had no ability, but I was determined to show heart.
Isn't there any heaven where old beautiful dances, old beautiful intimacies prolong themselves?
Life is a very brief candle especially when you burn it at both ends
Blood is thicker than water, but they still use corn starch as a thickener on cooking shows
Blood is thicker than water, and so is diarrhea
Treat life as a suicide mission, take on the impossible jobs and attack with the gusto of someone who has nothing to lose.... and when you revel in victory, make like it's a dirty win
There was a certain struggling fury that went with being jobless, and persevering, and being turned down, that was different from simply being jobless.
To hear them laugh was to hear that everything was all right, but to see them laugh was to see otherwise
Perhaps that is the only cure for jealousy, to realize that the people we resent and envy for having what we lack, probably have woundsand scars of their own. They may even be envying us.
Truly competent Literary Detectives are as rare as truthful men, Mr. Tweed -- you can see her potential as clearly as I can. Frightened of someone stealing your thunder, perhaps?
The English, by and large, being a crass and indolent race, were not as keen on burning women as other countries in Europe.
Even the pious Scots, locked throughout history in a long-drawn-out battle with their arch-enemies the Scots, managed a few burnings to while away the long winter evenings.
When people try to rain on your parade, ...pee on theirs
The only person you can trust with a good idea is a fool
People get addicted to feeling offended all the time because it gives them a high
I've always preferred crazy to stupid. Stupid can break your heart.
Clairey knew well that it was one thing to occupy his bed, quite another to occupy his heart.
A look of interest, or perhaps doubt, came across his face. "Well, " he said, "I'm sure your bulimia was fulfilling some need.
Our life is a series of moments. Let them all go. Moments. All gathering towards this one.
Spiders evidently as surprised by the weather as the rest of us: their webs were still everywhere - little silken laundry lines with perfect snowflakes hung out in rows to dry.
Some people might enjoy drain water if they were told it was vodka.
I like to walk in the woods and see what Mother Nature is wearing.
Most epiphanies happen after great loss or tragedy. The soul is equipped to deal with dynamic events because of its elastic quality. Energy is mutable, it can change its presence, but not its tone.
There are things in this world that no human being should be able to endure. We should die of heartbreak, but we do not. Instead, we are forced to survive, to bear witness.
All wickedness comes from weakness. The child is wicked only because he is weak. Make him strong
Who else but a lover retains the ability to wound the other person with such passion, such precision? And who else but that lover has the capacity to heal what he or she has done?
My behavior last night was poor.""Poor?" Agatha coughed. "You pushed me through a window!
If death is no longer a fear, we're really free. Free to take any risk under the sun for Christ and for love.
You always miss 100% of the shots you don't order
One lives in the very present moment
Why didn't my father get to give Mom the fairy tale? Why do most people fail to give each other the fairy tale?
And then—what?—you graduate from Alice to Frodo to Darth?