Jonathan Mase Quotes

You have to think anyway, so why not think big? ~ Donald J. Trump

The door closed; almost imperceptably, the lift began to rise.
'Going up,' the skull said. 'Next floor: cutlery, condiments and underpants. ~ Jonathan Stroud

Let's concede that we have decided to let our children grow up in two separate nations, and lead two separate kinds of lives. If, on the other hand, we have the courage to rise to this challenge to name what's happening within our inner-city schools, then we also need the courage to be activist and go out and fight like hell to change it. ~ Jonathan Kozol

For, what though his Head be empty, provided his Common place-Book be full ... ~ Jonathan Swift

Isaiah 9:10: "The bricks have fallen, But we will rebuild with hewn stone; The sycamores have been cut down, But we will plant cedars in their place.1 "Now, Isaiah 9:11: "Therefore the LORD shall set up The adversaries of Rezin against him, And spur his enemies on. ~ Jonathan Cahn

I've heard when girls meet 'N Sync and the Backstreet Boys, they throw up on them and faint. I wouldn't want to get thrown up on. ~ Jonathan Lipnicki

We are dependent on the power of God to convert us and give faith in Jesus Christ and the new nature. ~ Jonathan Edwards

Pray steal me not, I'm Mrs. Dingley's, Whose heart in this four-footed thing lies. ~ Jonathan Swift

Stabilizing the euro is one thing, healing the culture that surrounds it is another. A world in which material values are everything and spiritual values nothing is neither a stable state nor a good society. The time has come for us to recover the Judeo-Christian ethic of human dignity in the image of God. ~ Jonathan Sacks

I know precisely what honor is, Heracles. Honor is the artifice kings sell the peasants' sons so that they may fight and die without pay. Honor is what drives a peaceful man to bloody vengeance. Honor is what drove the Celts to behead the children of the Apache Courts.
- The Egyptian God Bes ~ Jonathan Maas

If you find someone attractive, you try to make them find you attractive. That is called seduction. And seduction is a bit ugly. You could say it's a bit ugly to use your charisma. ~ Jonathan King

It is a miserable thing to live in suspense; it is the life of the spider. ~ Jonathan Swift

Religious law is like the grammar of language. Any language isgoverned by such rules; otherwise it ceases to be a language. But within them, you can say many different sentences and write many different books. ~ Jonathan Sacks

I totally remember what it felt like to be so full ... Full of promise, full of dreams, full of shit. Mostly just full of yourself. So full you're bursting. And then you get out into the world, and people empty you out, little by little, like air from a balloon ... You try like hell to fill yourself up with fresh air, from you and from other people. But back then ... it was so damn effortless to feel full, you know? All you had to do was breathe ~ Jonathan Tropper

God is in my head, but the devil is in my pants. ~ Jonathan Winters

The only decoration on the gray segments of her cubicle was a bumper sticker, AT LEAST THE WAR ON THE ENVIRONMENT IS GOING WELL. Her colleagues' cubicles were covered with photos ~ Jonathan Franzen

It is God's will through His wonderful grace, that the prayers of His saints should be one of the great principal means of carrying on the designs of Christ's kingdom in the world. When God has something very great to accomplish for His church, it is His will that there should precede it the extraordinary prayers of His people; as is manifest by Ezekiel 36:37. and it is revealed that, when God is about to accomplish great things for His church, He will begin by remarkably pouring out the spirit of grace and supplication (see Zechariah 12:10). ~ Jonathan Edwards

The desires our little family couldn't afford to indulge had never seemed important, only snobbish and silly and somehow misplaced, like Thurston Howell's priorities on Gilligan's Island. Besides, I'd had as much or more money than most kids I'd known in Brooklyn, if somewhat less than the majority of my Manhattan schoolmates at Stuyvesant, so figured I was somewhere in the middle. Yeah, sure, that was it: I was middle class. ~ Jonathan Lethem

His tiredness hurt so much it kept him awake. ~ Jonathan Franzen

All human race would be wits. And millions miss, for one that hits. ~ Jonathan Swift

Teaching students the evidence for and against Darwinism is not the same as teaching intelligent design. The U.S. Congress has officially endorsed teaching students 'the full range of scientific views' about Darwinian evolution. ~ Jonathan Wells

Another big difference about not being in college: In college, you're on the team, you're competing for the NCAA - luckily I had a full scholarship and I was taken care of - then all of a sudden you're a pro and you've got to take care of yourself. I'm gonna keep doing the same thing, keep training, and hopefully everything works out. ~ Jonathan Horton

He's a smooth-tongued, cold-eyed, hard-nosed, two-faced creep,' I said, trying to be fair.
She was puzzled. 'How is he so successful?'
'Because,' I explained, 'he's a smooth-tongued, cold-eyed, hard-nosed, two-faced creep. ~ Jonathan Lynn & Anthony Jay

If revival is being withheld from us it is because some idol remains still enthroned; because we still insist in placing our reliance in human schemes; because we still refuse to face the unchangeable truth that It is not by might, but by My Spirit. ~ Jonathan Goforth

The key to this collaboration - which we undertook after much deliberation - was to stretch creatively. New characters, new locales, new form (the novella). ~ Jonathan Kellerman

Mostly I have to try to censor myself so as not to write things that will hurt other people, or that will go too far. ~ Jonathan Ames

There is beauty when something
works and it works intuitively. ~ Jonathan Ive

I was in the utmost astonishment, and roared so loud that they all ran back in a fright; and some of them, as I was afterwards told, were hurt with the falls they got by leaping from my sides upon the ground. However, they soon returned, ~ Jonathan Swift

Why do humans never do as they're told? Someone should replace you all with robots. No, on second though, they shouldn't, bad idea. ~ Jonathan Morris

A few days after we came home from the hospital, I sent a letter to a friend, including a photo of my son and some first impressions of fatherhood. He responded, simply, 'Everything is possible again.' It was the perfect thing to write because that was exactly how it felt. ~ Jonathan Safran Foer

I might live a life of struggle but I will not live a life of defeat! ~ Jonathan Anthony Burkett

In every relationship one must sacrifice to show thy love. Are you willing to make sacrifices for someone you love? ~ Jonathan Anthony Burkett

When I was sixteen, I wrote the first hundred or so pages of a novel about a piano that was haunted by the ghost of an evil blues musician. ~ Jonathan Tropper

Every artist has limits. No one can do everything. It's impossible. ~ Jonathan Lethem

Lincoln, steeped in the Bible and Shakespeare, set an impossibly high bar for presidential prose. ~ Jonathan Raban

That his majesty gave many marks of his great lenity, often ~ Jonathan Swift

It's great to be alive, isn't it? Especially when you consider the alternative. ~ Jonathan Ross

I trained as a librarian, and I run a bookstore. Fucking right I can use a gun ... if I have to engage somebody between the counter and the door, only the political autobiographies are in danger and who gives a fuck about those? ~ Jonathan L. Howard

I think a lot of people don't have any idea of how deeply segregated our schools have become all over again. Most textbooks are not honest in what they teach our high school students. ~ Jonathan Kozol

Basically, a case conceptualization is a method for understanding and explaining a client's concerns and for guiding the treatment process. It functions like a "bridge" to connect assessment and treatment with clinical outcomes. ~ Jonathan Sperry

Guns don't kill people. People kill people." "But guns make it so much easier. ~ Jonathan L. Howard

Katharine Hepburn said it best. 'Nature', she says majestically to Humphrey Bogart in The African Queen, 'is what we are put in this world to rise above.' The ~ Jonathan Sacks

Girls aren't mean to guys in high school. They are mean to each other. Girls were never mean to me. ~ Jonathan Bennett

I have always wanted to be a published author. I write baseball books because I love the sport. ~ Jonathan Weeks

The atheists, libertines, despisers of religion ... that is to say all those who usually pass under the name of Free-thinkers. ~ Jonathan Swift

I deal with the authors I work with, agents, and other departments of the company, talking about both the books that I'm working on and everyone else's. Then there's dealing with foreign publishers: foreigners visit all the time. People want to bounce things off the publisher, and a lot of it is encouragement. ~ Jonathan Galassi

I am now certain that we have no alternative but to reduce urgently the levels of carbon that we are still pumping into the atmosphere as though tomorrow simply didn't matter. If we don't act collectively and individually, our children and their children will reap a whirlwind which will obliterate their civilisation. ~ Jonathan Dimbleby

She knew a couple of writers. They were always broke. ~ Jonathan Maberry

He had seen inferno and tempest, and had not only looked into the abyss but the abyss had looked into him, and then made disparaging comments. ~ Jonathan L. Howard