Jean Ferris Quotes

C: What do you get when a giant sneezes?
Out of the way. - Marigold ~ Jean Ferris

Ed said, "I can tell you, when we heard that baby was going to be all right, there wasn't a dry seat in the castle."
"I'm so happy to hear that," Marigold sold. "I think. ~ Jean Ferris

His recent dungeon experience had persuaded him that opportunites for good things should be grabbed and not postponed. You never knew when you wouldn't be around anymore. ~ Jean Ferris

Rats. Rats, mice, and rodents. ~ Jean Ferris

She said, "As long as we're with each other
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"We know we're in exactly the right place," he finished. ~ Jean Ferris

There are only a few things worse than having to face up to the fact that the predicaments one finds oneself in are usually the results of one's own foolish actions. ~ Jean Ferris

We'll burn that bridge when we come to it! ~ Jean Ferris

But it's tempting, isn't it, to give somebody like Olympia or Fenleigh a taste of their own medicine? To get even?'
I agree it's tempting. *Really* tempting. But it doesn't solve anything. It just perpetuates the problem by making us as bad as them. And we don't need any more of them, do we? ~ Jean Ferris

As wonderful as dogs can be, they are famous for missing the point. ~ Jean Ferris

Carpe Diam forever after. ~ Jean Ferris

No matter how good somebody's life looks from the outside, you can be sure there's something about it you wouldn't want to have in your life. ~ Jean Ferris

Nobody ever gets enough appreciation when they're behaving themselves, but there's no end to hearing about it when they're not. ~ Jean Ferris

You go to grab your moments and squeeze them dry. Enjoy them while you're having them. Then remember and enjoy them all over again in your memory. And try to have more good ones than bad ones - - or at least remember more of the good ones. ~ Jean Ferris

I'm starting to believe that happily ever after includes people doing things that upset each other. We all get cranky, or impatient, or worried, or careless enough to do or say things that hurt someone else. Like it or not, that's normal. We can't blame it all on Olympia's bad energy. The important part is that we feel sorry about what we've done and make up for it. That's something Olympia never did. ~ Jean Ferris

Here's what I say - when you don't know or can't know the answer to a question, why not believe the answer you like best? It's as valid as any of the others - and it might be right. ~ Jean Ferris

Horatio leaned toward her, "What is the secret of joy?"
Mousey thought for a moment. "Doing what you like best."
Of course. How simple. And how true. ~ Jean Ferris

You should work extra hard to be your best selves. True evil has a hard time operating in the face of strenuous manifestations of good. Especially if you act right away. The longer you let evil hang around and get a grip on you, the harder it is to get rid of it. ~ Jean Ferris

Phoebe was thinking, Insubordinate. What a lovely word. And when was the last time she'd heard a nice-looking young man use it? Why-never, that's when. What a treat. And to have a ruler who could say conscientious and citizenry in the same sentence. Lovely. ~ Jean Ferris

And Phoebe and Sebastian went their separate ways, to the blacksmith shop and the library, after several backward glances that weren't coordinated enough to allow either to know that the other one was looking. ~ Jean Ferris

Secrets have a way of making themselves felt, even before you know there's a secret. ~ Jean Ferris

I know it's important to do more than just complain when there's something you don't like. You need to try to do something about it, or you're nothing but a whiner. ~ Jean Ferris

This is some kind of life, isn't it? Something good happening inside something bad. ~ Jean Ferris

And they lived happily (aside from a few normal disagreements, misunderstandings, pouts, silent treatments, and unexpected calamities) ever after. ~ Jean Ferris

The worst education is to leave him floating between his will and yours, and to dispute endlessly between you and him as to which of the two will be the master. ~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau

If you sing a song of peace with enough gestures and grimaces, it becomes a war song. ~ Jean Giraudoux

Courtly manners are contagious; they are caught at Versailles. ~ Jean De La Bruyere

One kills a man, one is an assassin; one kills millions, one is a conqueror; one kills everybody, one is a god. ~ Jean Rostand

I might not know every step of my journey, but standing still wouldn't accomplish a thing. Sometimes you just had to take a step, whatever the direction, and see what happened. ~ Jean Brashear

Objects should not touch because they are not alive. You use them, put them back in place, you live among them: they are useful, nothing more. But they touch me, it is unbearable. I am afraid of being in contact with them as though they were living beasts. ~ Jean-Paul Sartre

I like to see what future generations are thinking about. ~ Billie Jean King

G.U.R.U - Gee, you are you! ~ Jean Houston

Henceforth the majesty of God revere;Fear Him, and you have nothing else to fear. ~ Jean Racine

For the heavenly fire no longer strikes depraved cities, it is rather the lens which cuts through ordinary reality like a laser, putting it to death. ~ Jean Baudrillard

BILL: Please, sweetheart, we need to know what went on here. JEAN: Nothing "went on." Can we just not make a federal case out of everything? ~ Tracy Letts

In Genoa, the word, libertas can be read on the front of prisons and on the fetters of galley-slaves. The application of this motto is fine and just. ~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau

It's not where you take things from - it's where you take them to. ~ Jean-Luc Godard

Don't let anyone define you. You define yourself. ~ Billie Jean King

Every journalist owes tribute to the evil one. ~ Jean De La Fontaine

No book is written; it's always re-written ~ Jean Fullerton

Gentleness succeeds better than violence. ~ Jean De La Fontaine

It was funny - this man, or whatever he was, spoke with the naivety of child and the authority of a king. He was kind of sweet but a total a-hole at the same time. It was a strange combination. ~ Mimi Jean Pamfiloff

To hell with pleasure that's haunted by fear. ~ Jean De La Fontaine

Can a faith that does nothing be called sincere? ~ Jean Racine

God waits patiently for me to wake up, grow up, come to the awareness that great works take time, that nothing truly worthwhile can be rushed ... How difficult it is not to interfere, to try to take over, to go it alone. But God cannot succeed without me. God needs my whole-hearted cooperation in this work. ~ Jean Royer

Eldora smiled up at Paulo cunningly, her dark eyes twinkling. "You are old, Father."
"Not as old as I shall be, before I have finished with the universe. ~ Mary-Jean Harris

She is wearing her black dress. She isn't crying, but she never did cry, anyhow. It's a bright sunny day and she's like a black shadow creeping down the empty street. ~ Jean-Paul Sartre

How comes it that you curse, Frere Jean? It's only, said the monk, in order to embellish my language. They are the colors of Ciceronian rhetoric. ~ Francois Rabelais

Don't give me books for Christmas; I already have a book. ~ Jean Harlow

Those whom nature destined to make her disciples have no need of teachers. Bacon, Descartes, Newton - these tutors of the human race had no need of tutors themselves, and what guides could have led them to those places where their vast genius carried them? Ordinary teachers could only have limited their understanding by confining it to their own narrow capabilities. With the first obstacles, they learned to exert themselves and made the effort to traverse the immense space they moved through. If it is necessary to permit some men to devote themselves to the study of the sciences and the arts, that should be only for those who feel in themselves the power to walk alone in those men's footsteps and to move beyond them. It is the task of this small number of people to raise monuments to the glory of the human mind. ~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau

In politics, yesterday's lie is attacked only to flatter today's. ~ Jean Rostand

Once liberty has exploded in the soul of a man, the gods can do nothing against that man. ~ Jean-Paul Sartre

A man's reception depends upon his coat; his dismissal upon the wit he shows. ~ Pierre-Jean De Beranger

Real lives have no end. Real books have no end. ~ Jean-Marie G. Le Clezio

...who'd walk to school on Monday and who'd have to pass the smoking heap of what used to be their neighborhoods because when adults are haunted, it's the kids who get the worst frights...The word "aftermath" came to mind. I guess it means the time after something terrible happens when you do the math to figure out what has been added and what's been subtracted. ~ Emil Ferris

Art will never come except from some small disregarded corner where an isolated and inspired man is studying the mysteries of nature. ~ Jean-Francois Millet

It is very rare to find ground which produces nothing; if it is not covered with flowers, with fruit trees and grains, it produces briers and pines. It is the same with man; if he is not virtuous, he becomes vicious. ~ Jean De La Bruyere