Feeling like, life has been so unfair to me, but what can I say except, "I'm still here." So I'm determined to make the best out of it, take every opportunity as a blessing, and live the rest of my life to the fullest.
Jonathan Anthony Burkett
Related You're afraid of getting hurt like I'm afraid to die. It doesn't mean I'm not going to live every da... VI KEELAND Boring people live boring lives. HABEEB AKANDE im the one who has to die when its time for me to die. so let me live my life the way i want to LIL WAYNE Life can only be understood looking backward. It must be lived forward. ERIC ROTH ...we live on the edge of the abstract all the time. Look at something solid in the known world: an ... NATALIE GOLDBERG She was restless. She drove a little too fast, swam a little too far offshore. She hitchhiked. She s... ELIZABETH WINDER Anything that is exclusive will be accused of elitism; living one’s dreams will be called pretenti... FENNEL HUDSON Don't you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you're not taking advantage of it?... ERNEST HEMINGWAY Some people never take a chance and never know what it's like to live life to the full. CHLOE THURLOW - Mrzim sve što je odricanje! - Ni ja, Ivane, ne pristajem da se odričem. Ja hoću ceo, sav, ... DOBRICA ĆOSIć I mumble a lot when im off stage, so a lot of times when im with a friend i'll say something and he'... MITCH HEDBERG We need to embrace every day and enjoy it as much as we can. KAREN TODD SCARPULLA It's a a damn good day to be alive. MICHAEL CLIFFORD How should I know?" said Alice, surprised at her own courage. "It's no business of mine." The Q... LEWIS CARROLL It would have been really unfair had we not been gifted the next precious months. [...] Don’t you ... TILLIE COLE To be independent is an privilege. PRADEEPA PANDIYAN My mother, I suppose, is still a main figure in my life because her life was so sad and unfair, and ... ALICE MUNRO Don't tell me you're one of those people who becomes their disease. I know so many people like that.... JOHN GREEN Everything we do really is just a little marker on the long road to death. And sometimes that’s ov... JOSS WHEDON He created us for adventure, not ease. MARY E. DEMUTH Life is a competition to eliminate fear and doubts to double our life to live better not bitter in t... NAZIM AMBALATH so many people live and they only live and die; so many people live and they truly live and die ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH I live my life progressing for nothing else but the best. JONATHAN ANTHONY BURKETT I have better understanding how difficult and complex life can be, fortunately I know when not to ta... SHELLIE PALMER Don't let fear cripple you and keep you from trying new things, changing things, exploring and livin... AKIROQ BROST The unfortunate thing is that, sometimes, we slip, but, fortunately, consciously or unconsciously, w... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Abiding does not mean sitting idly by. It means resting in the work, resting in the moment, resting ... ROBIN BERTRAM Don't try to understand life. Live it! Don't try to understand love. Move into love. Then you will k... OSHO The earth is an arena of champions. We are all champions. We all did overcome millions of potential ... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Wake every morning with the same feeling. Live up high and fly on top of the ceiling. I just know th... ANA CLAUDIA ANTUNES I want to live like there's no tomorrow. Love like I'm on borrowed time. It's good to be alive. JASON GRAY The idea is to believe me... but as far as I see the world... to believe is a sin... to trust me one... DEYTH BANGER Fuel your life with passion. TERESA COLLINS Outside your comfort zone is the only place worth living. KARINA BLISS Why bother with a cunning plan when a simple one will do? TERRY PRATCHETT To my young friends out there: Life can be great, but not when you can't see it. So, open your e... NANCY REAGAN Im James Bond. Im Jason Bourne. Im Super-freaking-Mario come to life. JOHN DAVID ANDERSON Anything man can make, man can destroy. JONATHAN ANTHONY BURKETT Abstract conversations are my favourite, for they unviel true convictions. PARUL WADHWA Creativity is not just thinking outside the box but living outside it. VICTOR SHAMAS In the journey of life, certain paths may seem to be leading nowhere because of a mountain or hill o... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH God has provided us with an opportunity to experience this wonderful journey called LIFE.... So than... BHAWANA JAIN I don't define lust as anything evil or nasty. Lust as defined by me, is the feeling of desire: a de... C. JOYBELL C. We have but one life so make the most of it. Live life to its fullest without fear or regret and mak... LATIKA TEOTIA The fear of the unknown was eclipsed by the gladness that came of taking action, of doing something ... TRACY L. HIGLEY It was about more fully inhabiting the life I have, not creating a new one. PATTI DIGH i know im not the girl you wanted. not the one you want to hear from. but what you see is what you g... SIMI GREWAL Times like this were special. Memory builders. When something extraordinary happened to a person the... SANDRA HILL Beauty fades, but knowledge is eternal ANDREW FAIRCHILD That is our Fairy Tail!! We don't live like we have already died, like you do!! We live with our liv... HIRO MASHIMA Sylvia possessed a deeply conditioned respect for authority. She wanted desperately to live up to th... ELIZABETH WINDER Change often brings unimagined opportunity...If there is no struggle, there is no progress. To live ... SYRIE JAMES Opportunities will come and go, but if you do nothing about them, so will you. RICHIE NORTON Im okay Im okay now. But you really need to listen to me 'cause im telling you the trut... GERARD WAY May I never neither turn left nor turn right in my journey of life, but may I go straight to Christ ... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH From the Kindle Book Reflections in the Mirror of Life: “In a slum somewhere in India As... THE PROPHET OF LIFE Maya Angelou had the ability to glean inspiration out of pain. THE PROPHET OF LIFE If we cannot always be entirely sane in our relationships, the kindest thing we can do for those who... THE SCHOOL OF LIFE i can not go through the ocean. i can not drive the streets at night. i can not wake up in the morni... A FINE FRENZY The best that can be said of my life so far is that it has been industrious, and the best that can b... MARIA MITCHELL One must simply take the days of their lives as they happen. If you spend time worrying over what is... R.J. GONZALES But my mom knew this was my job and she gave me her blessing and told me to stay out here and do the... MARCUS TUBBS There is only one invitation it would kill me to refuse, yet I'm tempted to turn it down all the tim... BOB GOFF have i gone mad? im afraid so, but let me tell you something, the best people usualy are. LEWIS CARROLL The truth is my idea has been to always stay at Barcelona and see out the rest of my career here. Li... LIONEL MESSI Someone who managed to navigate the tricky waters between living a life you could be proud of and st... CALVIN TRILLIN Im not trying to prove a point, ... I just want to get it out of my system, and I think I have the o... ANGEL CORDERO, JR. I've lived my life fighting to overcome but still yet the troubles I face, may never end in this end... JONATHAN ANTHONY BURKETT My Mission is to always be creating...to take every opporunity to learn... to inspire others to be e... TERRY BARNETT When sorrow knocks at your door, tell it you're busy finding happiness. SARU SINGHAL I certainly have routines in my day-to-day life that are important to me and still give me feelings ... DANIEL TAMMET Clay in the hands of a good potter suffers so many good turns, but in the end, we see its real and t... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Ich habe gelernt, dass es auch Gutes auf der Welt gibt, wenn man genau hinschaut und danach sucht. I... JENNIFER NIVEN To work for the sheer joy of it, to wake up and be really excited on a Monday, to love what you do s... MANOJ ARORA Dare to seize and make the most of all opportunities that life bring to your path. LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Friendship is a double-edged sword one side it can be great and true but the other side it spells be... GARY F EVANS... Life is Like a Piano,, and Im Playing Beethoven... KALUM JOHNSON (KDOG) If you're always racing to the next moment, what happens to the one you're in? Slow down and enjoy t... NANETTE MATHEWS Life doesn't happen to you, it happens FROM you. GREGG KORROL Use your heart. Understand. Learn to see things in the now, not as they were or will be, or as ... E.J. PATTEN Again, I am surprised why people seek to eliminate lust and cling to love; as they wish to ignore ha... C. JOYBELL C. They're fake bullets, so why do I feel like Im bleeding out? JODI PICOULT If life is a bowl of cherries, what's inside of it? JOSH STERN I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES Smiling at death seems like a pretty bold act. And so I smile like a damned fool. EMM COLE I have a horror of rest; possessions encourage one to indulge in it, and there's nothing like securi... ANDRé GIDE He's been a thrill to have. Sometimes guys say, 'well, it's time for me to move on with my life,' bu... CARL LANCASTER Today's college graduates take IM in the office for granted. If you protect your email systems but i... ED GOLOD I just want to make sure it lasts me the rest of my life so I don't have to return to work. CHASITY RUTJENS Nothing in the world matters if you don't matter. STEVEN CUOCO I feel awful about it, because they're taking a very nationalist kind of feeling to it. 'Those rotte... CHRISTINE JOHNSON We are hell different but vanity keeps us stuck. PARUL WADHWA PEACE IS THE OBJECTIVE TO WAR, BUT THE BLOOD RUNNETH STILL NATALIE URQUIETA But to mean it when I say that I want my life to count for His glory is to drive a stake through the... LOUIE GIGLIO Life has been so unfair to him. He knew what had happened to him was wrong, but you know what? He wa... BETTY RAY One year older, one year shorter; celebrate while you still can, and make sure to live life to the f... ASTRAEA L. SKYLAR Life is a bowl of cherries. Some cherries are rotten while others are good; its your job to throw ou... C. JOYBELL C. A lifetime isn't forever, so take the first chance, don't wait for the second one! Because sometimes... C. JOYBELL C. Just like email, instant messages can be used as evidence in a legal case. So it pays to make sure y... ED GOLOD Im a trackstar running thru life, chasing my dream. 50 CENT
More Jonathan Anthony Burkett
There may never be world peace but there will always be love. JONATHAN ANTHONY BURKETT True best friends never fail on understanding, forgiving, and being there for one another no matter ... JONATHAN ANTHONY BURKETT You know my name, not my story. You've heard what I've done, but not what I've been through. JONATHAN ANTHONY BURKETT Do you consider yourself a blessing or just another person? JONATHAN ANTHONY BURKETT Stop worrying about being that perfect person because no one is perfect. Put your focus on being tha... JONATHAN ANTHONY BURKETT In life we all go through trials and tribulations. So now tell me, will you pass or will you make a ... JONATHAN ANTHONY BURKETT One Life is about realizing there's no second chances in this one life that we were given to live. S... JONATHAN ANTHONY BURKETT Faith is why I'm here today and faith is why I made it through. JONATHAN ANTHONY BURKETT I understand we all have our differences. But while learning about history I've read about white peo... JONATHAN ANTHONY BURKETT Holding on to the past will hold you down in life. Learn from it but move on. JONATHAN ANTHONY BURKETT Growing up watching friends grow, from friends to lovers. Opens the eyes of many every time. Proving... JONATHAN ANTHONY BURKETT Instead of treating your child like how you were treated. Treat them with the same love and attentio... JONATHAN ANTHONY BURKETT It's risky most of the time, but its better to listen to your heart. JONATHAN ANTHONY BURKETT Neglected but Undefeated I stand today living the life I was told I would never live all because my ... JONATHAN ANTHONY BURKETT Nurturing, Providing, and loving you passionately. May that be, my number of responsibilities. As on... JONATHAN ANTHONY BURKETT I live to inspire, not start the fire. JONATHAN ANTHONY BURKETT I live my life progressing for nothing else but the best. JONATHAN ANTHONY BURKETT I don't the life of a thug. I live the life of a sinner. JONATHAN ANTHONY BURKETT Fight for what you want out of this one life. JONATHAN ANTHONY BURKETT In life I will fall, I will backslide, but mark my word I will never give up. JONATHAN ANTHONY BURKETT What a life we live. Full of questions, adventures, stories, mistakes, good, quests, bad, miracles, ... JONATHAN ANTHONY BURKETT Might not live long but I know I'ma die happy. JONATHAN ANTHONY BURKETT I’ve given up already in life but something or someone keep pushing me to keep going. JONATHAN ANTHONY BURKETT Open up your eyes for me people, the prophecies are true and the beast is real. JONATHAN ANTHONY BURKETT Forget living a long life cause I don't see that happening with me living a life of misery, neglect,... JONATHAN ANTHONY BURKETT Never feel sorry for me, just teach me and watch me grow. JONATHAN ANTHONY BURKETT Peace and love, that's what we all need. JONATHAN ANTHONY BURKETT Today is the day I stand tall, strong, and mighty to tell the world who I am. JONATHAN ANTHONY BURKETT Anything man can make, man can destroy. JONATHAN ANTHONY BURKETT I look at this life as a puzzle without all the pieces in the box. JONATHAN ANTHONY BURKETT I've lived my life fighting to overcome but still yet the troubles I face, may never end in this end... JONATHAN ANTHONY BURKETT Find out how Claude and Kelly end up from being Friends 2 Lovers as you follow them through their di... JONATHAN ANTHONY BURKETT The same whom create, is the same whom will destinate”. JONATHAN ANTHONY BURKETT Why do most people take the shortest route to settle their differences and just walk off, break up a... JONATHAN ANTHONY BURKETT Nobody can define what exactly true love is. Some believe in it and many others don't. If somebody t... JONATHAN ANTHONY BURKETT It's so simple to fall in love but it's such a struggle to find true love. JONATHAN ANTHONY BURKETT You'll may not have all the things you'll want in the world, but the true love that you'll have for ... JONATHAN ANTHONY BURKETT As long as your not hiding behind a closed door, he'll come. JONATHAN ANTHONY BURKETT In life nowadays it matters to most of us, what we do and how much we have in our lives.... However ... JONATHAN ANTHONY BURKETT You've fallen in love with someone and feel that the both of you was meant to be. However, something... JONATHAN ANTHONY BURKETT Don’t you ever let another put their hands on something that’s already yours, because you might ... JONATHAN ANTHONY BURKETT The best foundation for relationships to grow, flourish, and succeed is a deep-rooted friendship. JONATHAN ANTHONY BURKETT In every relationship one must sacrifice to show thy love. Are you willing to make sacrifices for so... JONATHAN ANTHONY BURKETT Let the love grow. Your mistake would be to rush it. Never allowing the seeds you've planted to grow... JONATHAN ANTHONY BURKETT I just want you to know that where ever life takes you, I'll always be happy for you as long as its ... JONATHAN ANTHONY BURKETT If two people are meant for one another, that doesn't mean that they have to rush and be together ri... JONATHAN ANTHONY BURKETT You never know who's waiting for you and you never know when love is coming your way or who it might... JONATHAN ANTHONY BURKETT Faith doesn't get you around problems in life and relationships, it gets you through it. JONATHAN ANTHONY BURKETT Look for the heart in a man before you look at what he has. JONATHAN ANTHONY BURKETT After listening and getting to know more about you. Also, feeling a deep connection between us that ... JONATHAN ANTHONY BURKETT It's better to have a few faithful friends than numerous shallow friendships. JONATHAN ANTHONY BURKETT Thank you God for helping me to overcome the bad to live the good. JONATHAN ANTHONY BURKETT Every lesson is a blessing. JONATHAN ANTHONY BURKETT Been living on this earth for so long now and still don't know what a happy life feels like. I'm rea... JONATHAN ANTHONY BURKETT We're all made the same but then born to change. Which then don't make us the same. JONATHAN ANTHONY BURKETT There's a difference between driving and texting. When your driving your eyes have to be open and on... JONATHAN ANTHONY BURKETT The comeback need to always be more effective than the downfall! JONATHAN ANTHONY BURKETT Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond who you were. JONATHAN ANTHONY BURKETT I can only be me. JONATHAN ANTHONY BURKETT Trust in the music business is a hard thing to earn and keep. JONATHAN BURKETT I'm not going to get in the mud. You know, this has become a political football, BILL BURKETT files on a table. BILL BURKETT This is no new allegation, this is no new case, and this is no new fact. The fact is the same today ... BILL BURKETT The documents have not been conclusively proven false. Neither have they been proven authentic. BILL BURKETT You're wrong if you kill for the thrill of the hunt. MIKE BURKETT Everything in the electronics industry is getting more complicated, and the data management problems... MIKE BURKETT So many millions of people don't feel like their vote has any meaning. There is no reason why younge... MIKE BURKETT This has come to the stage it has, basically because of the hard work and cooperation of the Walsh C... BRUCE BURKETT The amount of money that can be potentially obtained is significant, and the maximum penalties on so... BRUCE BURKETT Bush getting elected was good for punk music. Now people have something to get pissed off about. MIKE BURKETT It's hard for me to imagine this company without Larry. CHARLES BURKETT The way he was scoring . . . we allowed him to do things we shouldn't have let him do. Once he gets ... CHARLES BURKETT It is difficult for me to imagine this company without Larry. His leadership contributions are wide-... CHARLES BURKETT In 30 years, I've never seen anything like it. BURKETT POWELL They'll be coated on the lake -- just a thin film all over the place. BURKETT POWELL They're horrible. You're constantly doing this. They're so small, they go right up your nose. BURKETT POWELL Those who don’t know how to weep with their whole heart don’t know how to laugh either. ELINOR BURKETT Here we are in some of the best economic times many of us have ever seen and they're deeper in debt ... LARRY BURKETT The calls are really up a lot. LARRY BURKETT The one principle that surrounds everything else is that of stewardship; that we are the managers of... LARRY BURKETT The Word on Finances LARRY BURKETT There is no joy in this. JUDY BURKETT Buyers started the bidding war. JUDY BURKETT I've never seen anything like this. JUDY BURKETT The statistics show that 30 percent of the housing inventory is spoken for, but that's not accurate.... JUDY BURKETT This caught us all by surprise. JUDY BURKETT For us, it started with the starting pitching struggling. That was the key. When you can't get a sol... JOSH BURKETT I thought I was fine. I thought it was just a headache. JOSH BURKETT Whenever you introduce a new product, you introduce risk. MICHAEL BURKETT We made headway (on Sunday). E. LYNN BURKETT We've lost very few lives and very few injuries this year, so this is a very sad event, indeed. E. LYNN BURKETT The biggest advantage we've had has been that we've gotten a handle on many of the fires. It slowed ... E. LYNN BURKETT The concern we have today is for Texas. They're still in drought condition, and their weather foreca... E. LYNN BURKETT Our weather folks are telling us we're going to get some rain, but the problem is it will be isolate... E. LYNN BURKETT We just don't see a real end in sight. E. LYNN BURKETT Montana has problems, Idaho has problems. Our fear is that those big fires are going to burn togethe... E. LYNN BURKETT The concern we have today is for Texas. They're still in drought condition and their weather forecas... E. LYNN BURKETT The outlook is good because Texas fires start quickly and end quickly. Texas is flatter, with not mu... E. LYNN BURKETT The first comic book I ever read was an issue of 'Legion of Super-Heroes' where the earth wa... JONATHAN HICKMAN I know, especially in my family, people's feelings get hurt over the tiniest things. I'm sur... JONATHAN KRISEL The biggest markets for my books outside the UK are France and Italy, and those are the two countrie... JONATHAN COE If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it. JONATHAN WINTERS I love improvisation. You can't blame it on the writers. You can't blame it on direction. Yo... JONATHAN WINTERS It's not whether you win or lose, it's how many people remember you when you die. JONATHAN ROSS These people are real to me, and situations keep coming up where their emergence feels natural. It... JONATHAN KELLERMAN I collect primarily ceramics but also black-and-white photography and some bits of contemporary. JONATHAN ANDERSON I grew up, as I joke around, in the 'People's Republic of Charlestown' in the city of Bo... JONATHAN TUCKER I reassure all Nigerians and the international community of our firm commitment to free, fair and cr... GOODLUCK JONATHAN All Nigerians of voting age are free to vote based on their convictions. It is our duty to defend an... GOODLUCK JONATHAN One thing that I know and I feel Nigerians will celebrate is continuity and peace. GOODLUCK JONATHAN We want to refocus Nigeria to make sure that basic infrastructure is provided. The environment is cr... GOODLUCK JONATHAN I've always affirmed, nobody's ambition is worth the blood of any Nigerian. GOODLUCK JONATHAN When you talk about the oil wealth you compare nations. There are some nations with less than five m... GOODLUCK JONATHAN In my early days in school, I had no shoes, no school bags. There were days I had only one meal... I... GOODLUCK JONATHAN Well-trained medical doctors and engineers leave Nigeria to the developed countries. We want to reve... GOODLUCK JONATHAN We will bring justice to the savage terrorists known as Boko Haram. They will be defeated. GOODLUCK JONATHAN We want to lead a country where people will be less greedy. Where people will know that the commonwe... GOODLUCK JONATHAN The argument about zoning and the presidency of Nigeria is like the philosophical argument of the eg... GOODLUCK JONATHAN My brothers and sisters, we are all winners. In this context there is no victor and no vanquished. W... GOODLUCK JONATHAN When I started caregiving, I was not on very firm ground. My first marriage had dissolved. I was wor... JONATHAN EVISON One person's car is another person's scenery. JONATHAN IVE I toured Ontario in the winter of '48, in a touring company of The Drunkard, in which I played t... JONATHAN FRID Some years ago there was a study to discover the most stressful occupation. It turned out not to be ... JONATHAN SACKS When we look at the flowers, we suddenly forget so many important things. We forget that all flowers... JONATHAN MABERRY My dad started taking me to Winnipeg games when I was 3 or 4. As a kid, I loved Wayne Gretzky, and I... JONATHAN TOEWS I think whenever anyone asked me why I wanted to be a hockey player, that's where it all started... JONATHAN TOEWS I'd love to have a proper sailing boat and go around the world. JONATHAN POWELL In my third novel there is an actual black hole that swallows everything you love. JONATHAN LETHEM Which European leader today would not relish the wonder-working powers of a Moses? Budget deficit? U... JONATHAN SACKS The build-up of personal and collective debt in America and Europe should have sent warning signals ... JONATHAN SACKS If you grow up in the South Bronx today or in south-central Los Angeles or Pittsburgh or Philadelphi... JONATHAN KOZOL I never set out to intentionally hurt any player and never enticed any teammate to intentionally hur... JONATHAN VILMA The Futurists believed in the machine, in making a great big fuss, in being young. For a brief momen... JONATHAN GALASSI That test should not be about ratings. What should weigh is the knowledge that a public broadcaster ... JONATHAN DIMBLEBY Anyone who thinks that you become a journalist or broadcaster in order to be a wallflower needs to t... JONATHAN DIMBLEBY Promises and Pye-Crusts, are made to be broken. JONATHAN SWIFT O Grub Street! how do I bemoan thee, whose graceless children scorn to own thee! . Yet thou hast gre... JONATHAN SWIFT Style may defined as the proper words in the proper places. JONATHAN SWIFT During an open water swim, it's easy to lose your direction. With all the splash, it can be quit... JONATHAN BROWNLEE I have a cameo in every movie. In '50/50,' I'm in the back of the bus. JONATHAN LEVINE Buttons, for me, are very sculptural things, and they are so fascinating. JONATHAN ANDERSON I wrote '33 Men' in eight weeks. Not only was it a combination of simultaneously writing and... JONATHAN FRANKLIN Morality binds and blinds. It binds us into teams... but thereby makes us go blind to objective real... JONATHAN HAIDT If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it. JONATHAN WINTERS The pen is mightier than the sword, but no match for the accountant. JONATHAN GLANCEY We have just enough religion to make us hate but not enough to make us love one another. JONATHAN SWIFT Necessity is the mother of invention, it is true, but its father is creativity, and knowledge is the... JONATHAN SCHATTKE There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake. JONATHAN SWIFT Vision: the art of seeing things invisible. JONATHAN SWIFT We are limited, not by our abilities, but by our vision. JONATHAN SWIFT The Viennese wash everything. Where else in the world does the government hire public servants to wa... JONATHAN CARROLL In thinking about religion and society in the 21st century, we should broaden the conversation about... JONATHAN SACKS When I was teaching in the 1960s in Boston, there was a great deal of hope in the air. Martin Luther... JONATHAN KOZOL If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would
not have given them to such a sco... JONATHAN SWIFT He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be pu... JONATHAN SWIFT Two Wrongs Don't Make a Right, nor do Two Rights Make a Left. Which ever side you think i... JONATHAN BAILEY If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scou... JONATHAN SWIFT Since our technology is really just an extension of ourselves, we don’t have to have contempt for ... JONATHAN FRANZEN Happiness is a perpetual possession of being well deceived. JONATHAN SWIFT The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false op... JONATHAN SWIFT Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old. JONATHAN SWIFT Your notions of friendship are new to me; I believe every man is born with his quantum, and he canno... JONATHAN SWIFT Two friendships in two breasts requires The same aversions and desires. JONATHAN SWIFT I never saw, heard, nor read, that the clergy were beloved in any nation where Christianity was the ... JONATHAN SWIFT In the school of political projectors, I was but ill entertained, the professors appearing, in my ju... JONATHAN SWIFT The two maxims of any great man at court are, always to keep his countenance and never to keep his w... JONATHAN SWIFT A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart. JONATHAN SWIFT I beg people not to accept the seasonal ritual of well-timed charity on Christmas Eve. It's blas... JONATHAN KOZOL I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy ch... JONATHAN SWIFT Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches to conceive how others can be in want. JONATHAN SWIFT If the scandal of Jesus was that He was always touching the wrong people and inviting the wrong peop... JONATHAN MARTIN The true art of government consists in not governing too much. JONATHAN SHIPLEY The lack of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome. JONATHAN SWIFT The most positive men are the most credulous. JONATHAN SWIFT Real love is always chaotic. You lose control; you lose perspective. You lose the ability to protect... JONATHAN CARROLL Belief is best when uncomplicated by reason. JONATHAN TOM More mony is put into prisons than into schools. That, in itself, is the description of a nation ben... JONATHAN KOZOL May you live every day of your life. JONATHAN SWIFT Every good writer I know needs to go into some deep, quiet place to do work that is fully imagined. ... JONATHAN FRANZEN Everyone always wants to know how you can tell when it's true love, and the answer is this: when the... JONATHAN TROPPER Can you define "plan" as "a loose sequence of manifestly inadequate observations and conjectures, he... JONATHAN STROUD A footman may swear; but he cannot swear like a lord. He can swear as often: but can he swear with e... JONATHAN SWIFT A short story is a sprint, a novel is a marathon. Sprinters have seconds to get from here to there a... JONATHAN CARROLL Vision is the art of seeing things invisible. JONATHAN SWIFT Your language indicates──and limits──what you think. JONATHAN PRICE Freedom is an illusion. It always comes at a price. Thinking JONATHAN STROUD The stories that bind us, Halli. The stories we live by, that dictate what we do and where we go. Th... JONATHAN STROUD Looks?” the skull said. “Who cares about that? It’s superficial. Outward appearance doesn’t ... JONATHAN STROUD Oh, we'll suffer in silence. You've given us plenty of practice at that. JONATHAN STROUD Because you're unique . You shine like a beacon, attracting the attention of all dark things." It ch... JONATHAN STROUD Nothing could keep me from you. Nothing in life or Death... JONATHAN STROUD I'ts how I want to remember him, the way he was that night: with horrors up ahead and horrors at our... JONATHAN STROUD Well, I make that one murder victim, one police interrogation and one conversation with a ghost,” ... JONATHAN STROUD Death is fugitive; even when you're watching for it, the actual instant somehow slips between your f... JONATHAN STROUD Well, when you're being held at gunpoint by a geriatric madman in a metal skirt, you've kind of hit ... JONATHAN STROUD God rest her soul and may she never walk at night JONATHAN STROUD A dozen more questions occurred to me. Not to mention twenty-two possible solutions to each one, six... JONATHAN STROUD One magician demanded I show him an image of the love of his life. I rustled up a mirror. JONATHAN STROUD According to some, heroic deaths are admirable things. I've never been convinced by this argument, m... JONATHAN STROUD Zealots: Wild eyed persons afflicted with incurable certainty about the workings of the world, a cer... JONATHAN STROUD