J. H. Evans Quotes

The test of love is in how we live.

That's all I did - that's all I ever did - try to do what Billy Strayhorn did.

I always looked for a man to rescue me and bring me happiness. I bought into that myth, of course, and looked for my own Prince Charming.

Some people spend so much time hunting treasure that they fail to see it all around them. It's like sifting through gold to find the silt.

It's not an easy task building a motorcycle company. Your window for success is relatively small. You can't afford a lot of hiccups if you don't have another business supporting you.

Oh! Duty is an icy shadow. It will freeze you. It cannot fill the heart's sanctuary.

Rarely do we invest the time to open the book of another's life. When we do, we are usually surprised to find its cover so misleading and its reviews so flawed.

A modern liberal is someone who doesn't care what you do, as long as it's compulsory.

The woman described in Proverbs 31 is not some ideal that exists out there; she is present in each one of us when we do even the smallest things with valor

I think anyone smiling and happy is beautiful.

Even the wise need wisdom.

Churches must extend their influence beyond the lives of church members to impact the broader community that they serve.

For the most part our leaders are merely following out in front; they do but marshal us the way that we are going.

And I love to cook! I've impressed hundreds of women with my cooking. And they always come back for more.

I had no idea there were so many ways you could burn yourself out.

In the beginning, I had considered these stops on my journey as interruptions - but I'm coming to understand that perhaps these detours are my journey.

I almost lost my best friend to anorexia. I am lending my voice as an entertainer, a mom, and a friend because I want to bring great awareness to this cause.

In chess it is more important to frustrate your opponent's strategy than to be obsessed with your own.

. . . Harboring an emotion as powerful as gratitude has power of its own.

It's too presumptuous and naïve to think you can change society by a photograph or anything else... I equate that with propaganda; I think that's a lower rank of purpose.

Without great mountains we cannot reach great heights.

Joy isn't the natural response to blessings - joy is what comes from acknowledging them.

The civilized man has a moral obligation to be skeptical. . . . Any man who for one moment abandons or suspends the questioning spirit has for that moment betrayed humanity.

Those with the softest hearts build the hardest shells.

When I left school, I got a job in a shoe shop and I used to save 15 quid a week and pay for my own singing and acting lessons.

If I go as hard as I can in practice, make sure it's a lot harder than than a fight, then the fight's going to be easy.

The Constitution is what the judges say it is.

I've managed to do movies and still keep a lifestyle where I can go to ballgames, go to a grocery store like everybody else.

In 10 years, I’d love to live near the sea, in a warmer climate. I could see myself with three dogs…and it’d be great to share them with someone else.

We are all in motion. Always. Those who are not climbing toward something are descending toward nothing.

If you don't think every day is a great day try going without one.

Buildings designed exclusively on scientific principles will depress their occupants and constrain their creativity.

Well usually if I'm having a sh***y day, I don't post anything. I don't go out just to tell everyone I'm having a great day, even if I'm not.

You have to experience real life before you can understand what it means to really worship. That's it.

I was looking very much for a career. My second marriage to Stan Herman had ended, and I wanted very much to be independent, not take alimony from him, be on my own, do the right thing.

I was born in Connecticut. But my parents brought my sister and I to L.A. when-Hollywood, actually, when i was 6 months old.

I don't have time to sit up and write songs all day. Maybe one day when my kids get older.

Try for a record of emotion, rather than a piece of topography.

There's no pillow quite so soft as a father's strong shoulder.

I think America has a brilliant future.

It is the essence of the institutions of liberty that it be recognized that guilt is personal and cannot be attributed to the holding of opinions or to mere intent in the absence of overt acts.

Directing is something I've sort of always felt like I'd like to do at one point and I thought the best way to start it is to write something myself or with someone and I'd go from there.

What makes a man a man? It's the choices he makes. Not how he starts things but how he finishes them.

But I decided I wanted more education and I had to make a choice between starting law school, which was interesting to me, and going for a graduate degree in engineering.

We need to stop building our churches around categories and start building them around people.

And then, when I went into the Navy, there was no choice. You took about half of the hours during your naval training as naval courses and the other half were engineering.

Don't wait until you are a big shot to do big shot things.

Scripture would not only solve the individual and family divisions, but it would also solve the ecclesiastical confusion.

Radical skepticism is no more critical than is credulity.

Men and women aren't too dissimilar.