Quentina Johnson Quotes

A certain amount of distrust is wholesome, but not so much of others as of ourselves; neither vanity not conceit can exist in the same atmosphere with it. ~ Samuel Johnson

To keep your secret is wisdom, but to expect others to keep it is folly. ~ Samuel Johnson

If he does really think that there is no distinction between virtue and vice, why, Sir, when he leaves our houses let us count our spoons. ~ Samuel Johnson

No amount of soul searching would fix my past. There was no magical Band-Aid I could stick on my heart, no special glue I could use to make myself whole again. I had shattered to pieces like a fragile vase on concrete; some fragments could be roughly cobbled back together, but many of my vital parts had simply turned to dust, pulverized and scattered by the first gust of wind. ~ Julie Johnson

No degree of knowledge attainable by man is able to set him above the want of hourly assistance. ~ Samuel Johnson

I scowl at him. "I know what you're doing."
"Standing here being charming and irresistible? ~ Julie Johnson

I could envision it all to clearly: Stuart or Debbie finding the dented door off its hinges, lying in the snow. "She came in, ravaged the boy, stole plastic bags, and ripped off the door in her escape," the police would say in the APB. "Probably making her way to bust her parents out of jail. ~ Maureen Johnson

Do you ever sing in the car?"
"Generally not. But I am driving a police car."
"I think people would like a singing policeman. Makes life seem more like a musical. Like Foot-tastic."
"You can talk for a long time about nothing."
"I certainly can, you charming man! ~ Maureen Johnson

In 1986 - the year before Peter Cardinal died - Gene Johnson had done an experiment that showed that Marburg and Ebola can indeed travel through the air. He infected monkeys with Marburg and Ebola by letting them breathe it into their lungs, and he discovered that a very small dose of airborne Marburg or Ebola could start an explosive infection in a monkey. ~ Richard Preston

Those who live their lives quietly, unmoved by either great sorrows or great joy, are often, in their final years, granted the dispensation of Discovery. Now, for the first time, they find out the secondary roads of the imagination, the side-streets, the alley-ways, the low doors each with a key in the lock.

...But those who have lived richly, exhaustively, staring into every face, attentive to every voice, are only too often pursued by the spinster Furies, and are driven at the end down avenues of stone where the walls reach to the sky, and the doors are sealed, and the pavements are rubbered against all sound but the beat of the hurrying heart. ~ Pamela Hansford Johnson

Liberia gave life, America gives me a DREAM. ~ Henry Johnson Jr

Lonnie smiled and nodded as Herbert repocketed the cutter and produced a chopped-down, brass Zippo lighter, the one that he had carried in the seventies in Vietnam. St. Peter leaned down to the Crow woman and asked her if she had anything she wanted to say, and she told him that to her, there ~ Craig Johnson

Later, Xander said, "It's not about you, you know. What Mimi hates is how her life has turned out. It isn't how she thought it would be back when she was your age and on the top of the world. ~ Julia Claiborne Johnson

If you want to kill giants, hang around a giant killer. It rubs off. ~ Bill Johnson

Say the word and I'll go," I whispered in a broken voice, my watering eyes locked on his furious ones. "Say the word and I'll fade away, and this, right here, will be the last time you see me. ~ Julie Johnson

Each one, Teach and reach ONE....
LIVE your LIFE....
Be good to yourself & others....
Don't worry BE happy....
Love Lifts.... ~ Lashea M. Johnson

Remind me: who was the greater mass murderer, Stalin or Hitler? Well, Stalin is thought to have been responsible for about 50 million deaths, and Hitler for a mere 25 million. What Hitler did in his concentration camps was equalled if not exceeded in foulness by the Soviet gulags, forced starvation and pogroms. What makes the achievements of communist Russia so special and different, that you can simper around in a CCCP T-shirt, while anyone demented enough to wear anything commemorating the Third Reich would be speedily banged away under the 1986 Public Order Act? ~ Boris Johnson

Let this story be an inspiration when dealing with the weak-minded who share your communal housing blocks and the selfish who use all the soap in your group bathing wells. Know that change is achievable and that happy endings do come, for this story promises to have the happiest ending you will ever hear ~ Adam Johnson

My own approach to literary problems is very like the one Dr. Johnson's blind housekeeper used when she poured tea-she put her finger inside the cup. ~ Flannery O'Connor

If you think you'll always let people down, that's all you'll ever do, I said. ~ Julia Claiborne Johnson

There's not always one right answer. The only thing I can tell you is everything that goes on back there is consensual. ~Dylan ~ Sloan Johnson

To those who have lived long together, everything heard and everything seen recalls some pleasure communicated, some benefit conferred, some petty quarrel or some slight endearment. Esteem of great powers, or amiable qualities newly discovered may embroider a day or a week, but a friendship of twenty years is interwoven with the texture of life. ~ Samuel Johnson

John Locke first began maintaining a commonplace book in 1652, during ~ Steven Johnson

[E]very man, everywhere, should be free to develop his talents to their full potential - unhampered by arbitrary barriers of race or birth or income. ~ Lyndon B. Johnson

Everyone knew in the 1950s why a girl from a nice family left home. The meaning of her theft of herself from her parents was clear to all - as well as what she'd be up to in that room of her own. ~ Joyce Johnson

Give people enough guidance to make the decisions you want them to make. Don't tell them what to do, but encourage them to do what is best. ~ Jimmy Johnson

Sometimes, when you work with directors who have done it a lot and are established in the business and know the game, there are all these rules that they have. First-time directors will allow you to come in with choices. They're not so jaded by actors that they're like, 'Ugh, just do your job, man.' ~ Jake Johnson

subordinate groups are often pitted against one another in ways that draw attention away from the system of privilege that hurts them all. ~ Allan G. Johnson

Kevin Kelly, let The Rock answer your question with a question of his own: Are you mentally, as well as physically prepared to tickle the anus of a monkey? ~ Dwayne Johnson

Some people want what they are not willing to give. ~ Brenda Johnson Padgitt

I am financing the recording myself. So I have no big names to drop. ~ Holly Johnson

The modern stuff, I can take it or leave it. I like its danceability, but the DJs talk a lot of nonsense. ~ Linton Kwesi Johnson

When crises come, though friends and relatives may be generous and eager to help, in the end it is I, alone on the trail, alone in the museum, alone in the courtroom, alone in the emergency room, alone in the morgue, alone in my illness, alone in my reading, alone in my writing, alone in the silence of my heart. ~ Fenton Johnson

Any committee is only as good as the most knowledgeable, determined and vigorous person on it. There must be somebody who provides the flame. ~ Lady Bird Johnson

I would advise no man to marry who is not likely to propagate understanding. ~ Samuel Johnson