Bernard Jan Quotes

It is so simple: the choices we make in our everyday lives, the things we do (or not) for others, define the world we live in. ~ Bernard Jan

Tonight I feel like a shooting star, but I hope my shine will last much longer. ~ Bernard Jan

Passion in every word I wrote, passion in every single thought. ~ Bernard Jan

We are intelligent and compassionate creatures and we can make choices. We can fortify our hearts in goodness and do the right things. Or we can turn our heads the other way and pretend again that bad things are not happening. That they will disappear because they have nothing to do with us, because we are not accountable. Well, this is also our choice. But in that case, I am afraid, this world will be lost for us. ~ Bernard Jan

Sometimes all you need is a big heart and burning desire. ~ Bernard Jan

HIGGINS [sitting down beside her] Rubbish! you shall marry an ambassador. You shall marry the Governor-General of India or the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, or somebody who wants a deputy-queen. I'm not going to have my masterpiece thrown away on Freddy.

LIZA. You think I like you to say that. But I haven't forgot what you said a minute ago; and I won't be coaxed round as if I was a baby or a puppy. If I can't have kindness, I'll have independence.

HIGGINS. Independence? That's middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.

LIZA [rising determinedly] I'll let you see whether I'm dependent on you. If you can preach, I can teach. I'll go and be a teacher.

HIGGINS. What'll you teach, in heaven's name?

LIZA. What you taught me. I'll teach phonetics.

HIGGINS. Ha! Ha! Ha! ~ George Bernard Shaw

Loving can be hard. Sometimes we don't feel loving, but it isn't all about feeling. Very often it is about will. Practice that if you can. ~ Jan Karon

I am very subtle; but Man is deeper in his thought than I am. The woman knows that there is no such thing as nothing: the man knows that there is no such day as tomorrow. I do well to worship them. ~ George Bernard Shaw

I marvel now that it was not obvious how inextricable suffering and fear are. It was not until fear left that I noticed, slowly, how it seemed to have taken suffering with it. It took a while to figure out that (for me, anyhow) suffering is mostly caused by fear-not by the circumstances themselves, but by my response to them. ~ Jan Frazier

Was he willing to blend into the life of another human being for the rest of his days, and have hers blend into his? That, of course, was the Bible's bottom line on marriage: one flesh. Not separate entities, not two autonomous beings merely coming together at dinnertime or brushing past one another in the hallway, holding on to their singleness, guarding against invasion. One flesh! (p. 207). ~ Jan Karon

Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve. ~ George Bernard Shaw

I still dream of the day when I will take a photograph so beautiful that it can be called love. ~ Jan Saudek

The British and Americans are two people separated by a common language. ~ George Bernard Shaw

The crowd shouldn't dictate your performance ~ Bernard Kelvin Clive

Virtually everyone needs motivation of some sort, but when you are in love - that is motivation enough, it turns many into poets and painters, it spurs the creativity in you. ~ Bernard Kelvin Clive

He seemed to think anyone was capable of anything, or at least he wouldn't exclude the possibility just because he thought he knew the person. And he insisted that this did not represent the worldview of an embittered pessimist. On the contrary, he had said. It would be much worse to expect good from other people, only to be disappointed when they didn't measure up to our high expectations. That would lead to resentment and contempt for humanity. ~ Jan-Philipp Sendker

When you become too predictable you lose your brand's luster. ~ Bernard Kelvin Clive

You must come to grips with yourself and settle in your spirit that not all open doors are meant for you and not all favors are friendly ~ Bernard Kelvin Clive

I knew [Timothy] Leary, but barely knew, didn't really know Jan [Kerouac]. ~ William S. Burroughs

Something what attract our attention and eyes will remain in our
memory. ~ Jan Jansen

It takes no effort to be ordinary. Ordinary is not even a challenge. You can do nothing and be ordinary. ~ Bernard Hopkins

That cactus went right through my eye. It left my eye flat. They took me to a doctor, and he said, 'We'll have to take the eye out.' ... I fought like a tiger. I said, 'No! Leave the eye alone. I am sure it will grow back.' The doctor said, 'You're too young to know.' ... But in a year's time that fluid came back, and that eye is just as good as the other one today. ~ Bernard Jensen

For me, the words 'Anything is possible' haven't served as a bolstering of hope as much as a warning to run for cover ~ Bernard Cooper

My wife thinks I think I'm such hot stuff. She's wrong. I don't think I'm such hot stuff.

My hero George Bernard Shaw, socialist, and shrewd and funny playwright, said in his eighties that if he was considered smart, he sure pitied people who were considered dumb. He said that, having lived as long as he had, he was at last sufficiently wise to serve as a reasonably competent office boy.

That's how I feel. ~ Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

What did you want to achieve?" "Liberty, of course!" The answer was swift, but followed immediately by a deprecating smile. "Except I've learned there's no such thing." "There isn't?" "You can't have freedom and lawyers, Sharpe, ~ Bernard Cornwell

Heartbeat to the next. The moment when a lover confesses ~ Jan-Philipp Sendker

A third variety of drama ... begins as tragedy with scraps of fun in it ... and ends in comedy without mirth in it, the place of mirth being taken by a more or less bitter and critical irony. ~ George Bernard Shaw

It is assumed that when anyone gets into debt, the fault is entirely and always the fault of the lender. ~ Bernard Levin

Left wing ... Right wing ... it's so limited; why doesn't it ever occur to any of them that what one is really longing for is the wishbone? ~ Jan Struther

Nothing did more to spur the boom in stocks than the decision made by the New York Federal Reserve bank, in the spring of 1927, to cut the rediscount rate. Benjamin Strong, Governor of the bank, was chief advocate of this unwise measure, which was taken largely at the behest of Montagu Norman of the Bank of England ... At the time of the Banks action I warned of its consequences ... I felt that sooner or later the market had to break. ~ Bernard Baruch

Without Action there Will Not be many Chances or changes in our life ~ Jan Jansen

Mindful eating is a way to become reacquainted with the guidance of our internal nutritionist. ~ Jan Chozen Bays

American citizens should not lose their constitutional rights because they lack the money to pay for them. ~ Bernard B. Kerik

All this struggling and striving to make the world better is a great mistake. Not that it's wrong to try to improve the world if you know how but simply because struggling and striving are the worst possible ways to go about doing anything! ~ George Bernard Shaw

History without the history of science, to alter slightly an apothegm of Lord Bacon, resembles a statue of Polyphemus without his eye-that very feature being left out which most marks the spirit and life of the person. My own thesis is complementary: science taught ... without a sense of history is robbed of those very qualities that make it worth teaching to the student of the humanities and the social sciences. ~ I. Bernard Cohen

If you keep waiting for the ideal time, chances are that there will never be ~ Bernard Kelvin Clive

The Jew is not satisfied with de-Christianizing, he Judiazizes, he destroys the Catholic or Protestant faith, he provokes indifference but he imposes his idea of the world of morals and of life upon those whose faith he ruins. He works at his age old task, the annilation of the religion of Christ. ~ Bernard Lazare

Too many read a chapter or two in the Bible, then for lack of interest put it down for weeks at a time and never look at it. Bernard compares the study of the Word and the mere reading of it to the difference between a close friendship and a casual acquaintance. If you want genuine knowledge, he says, you will have to do more than greet the Word politely on Sundays or nod reverently when you chance to meet it on the street. You must walk with it and talk with it every day of the week. You must invite it into your private chambers, and forego other pleasures and worldly duties to spent time in its company. ~ William Gurnall

Rebecca [West] can handle a pen as brilliantly as ever I could and much more savagely. ~ George Bernard Shaw

I know I began as a passion and have ended as a habit , like all husbands . ~ George Bernard Shaw

My method of getting a play across the footlights is like a revolver shooting: every line has a bullet in it and comes with an explosion. ~ George Bernard Shaw

Lack of credibility slays your character ~ Bernard Kelvin Clive

The purpose of a writer is to keep civilisation from destroying itself.
(Interview, New York Post Magazine, September 14, 1958) ~ Bernard Malamud

We don't build,' I said to my son, 'we just destroy. ~ Bernard Cornwell

Get out of my way; for I won't stop for you. ~ George Bernard Shaw

What makes our product work is the way we're tightly focused on messaging and being an SMS replacement. ~ Jan Koum

I kicked back my heels, but all I achieved was to ride out of the panicked mass into the path of the Danes, and all around me men were screaming and the Danish axes and swords were chopping and swinging. The grim work, the blood feast, the song of the blade, they call it. ~ Bernard Cornwell

He rightly reads scripture who turns words into deeds. ~ Bernard Of Clairvaux

Plato long ago pointed out the importance of being governed by men with sufficient sense of responsibility and comprehension of public duties to be very reluctant to undertake the work of governing. ~ George Bernard Shaw

There is only one person an English girl hates more than she hates her elder sister; and that is her mother. ~ George Bernard Shaw

I grew up in a country where advertising doesn't exist. ~ Jan Koum