Randa Manning Johnson Quotes

When you consciously decide to be in a good mood every morning, you create an atmosphere of joy and peace. Practice mood control daily... it will then become a habit. Don't put the control of your emotions in the hands of others. ~ Randa Manning-Johnson

Don't question the adjustments in your life. You have to trust what God allows. ~ Michael Bassey Johnson

When the statue of Mary on Johnson Street
first came to life,
she was already tired
of being called
Virgin.
She'd had more kids after Jesus,
you know.
And Joseph knew well
that she was no virgin
anymore. Sometimes she had even
felt sexy. ~ Katie Manning

We live in a world that has narrowed into a neighborhood before it has broadened into a brotherhood. ~ Lyndon B. Johnson

He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage. ~ Samuel Johnson

All students should have the opportunity to receive their high school diplomas and be fully prepared for college or the workplace. ~ Magic Johnson

To girls and women everywhere, I issue a simple invitation.
My sisters, my daughters, my friends; find your voice ~ Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

The Disciplined Leader is someone who focuses on the 20 percent of activities that drive 80 percent of results. ~ John Manning

Sometimes I feel like I've been waiting for someone to tell me when I can be normal again,' she said. 'I keep thinking I'll get a letter. Or a call. When does it happen?'
Pete looked like he wanted to walk toward her, but then he fell back against the car. The staring contest between them for almost a minute, and finally Pete exhaled loudly.
It's okay,' he said. ~ Maureen Johnson

A small country town is not the place in which one would choose to quarrel with a wife; every human being in such places is a spy. ~ Samuel Johnson

My goal is to get outs as soon as I can. Strikeouts aren't that big a deal to me. ~ Eli Manning

The confessing church of American Ragamuffins needs to join Magdalene and Peter in witnessing that Christianity is not primarily a moral code but a grace-laden mystery; it is not essentially a philosophy of love but a love affair; it is not keeping rules with clenched fists but receiving a gift with open hands. ~ Brennan Manning

Friends are often chosen for similitude of manners, and therefore each palliates the other's failings because they are his own. ~ Samuel Johnson

The idea of the individual had always, of course, been present in Mosaic religion, since it was inherent in the belief that each man and woman was created in God's image. It had been powerfully reinforced by the sayings of Isaiah. With Ezekiel it became paramount, and thereafter individual accountability became of the very essence of the Jewish religion. ~ Paul Johnson

The wound of not knowing," Ga said to her. "That's the one that never heals." The ~ Adam Johnson

ADUNCITY (ADU'NCITY) n.s.[aduncitas, Lat.]Crookedness; flexure inwards; hookedness. There can be no question, but the aduncity of the pounces, and beaks of the hawks, is the cause of the great and habitual immorality of those animals.Arbuthnot and Pope'sMart. Scrib. ~ Samuel Johnson

There are some things people see in toilets that they wish they hadn't. What Trevor Hawkins sees might even cost him his life. ~ Rob Johnson

To revenge reasonable incredulity by refusing evidence, is a degree of insolence with which the world is not yet acquainted; and stubborn audacity is the last refuge of guilt. ~ Samuel Johnson

And panting Time toil'd after him in vain. ~ Samuel Johnson

Need twisted deep and low inside her. It twined through her body like kudzu vines growing out of control, taking over and smothering what little good sense she had left. ~ Cat Johnson

We all remember things, it's what we remember that determines how we live. ~ Bill Johnson

You belong with me, Azami. Your family will be my family. My family - the GhostWalkers - will be yours."
"You're a very dangerous man, Sam Johnson," she whispered. "You stand there, tempting me with your pretty words of a future together, the devil in his blue jeans, so good-looking you're impossible to resist. I don't know why I can't say no to you."
His grin widened. His arms slid around her, pulling her tight against him. He didn't want so much as a breath between them. "That will stand me in good stead in the future." He bent his head once more to the temptation of her angelic mouth. ~ Christine Feehan

One of the advantages of living in the Ice Age would be that there are not very many people around. You're constantly moving, and you have to live by your wits. You can't just have fifteen different kinds of tools, you can't carry them. And no villages - no village idiots. Imagine a world free of idiots!" Idiots, he liked to point out, "don't survive in environments with lions. ~ Marilyn Johnson

I struggled for 15 years in this business before Miami Vice came along. ~ Don Johnson

There are a bunch of places to stay in Des Moines, but I'd suggest finding a place on the west side of town. It's a great urban area that has a lot to offer tourists. ~ Zach Johnson

Quality control" is the correct role for parents and they can help provide that if they too have the assignment and instrument with which the product will be judged. All teachers should have links to project assignments and assessments on their classroom websites for easy parental access. ~ Douglas A. Johnson

I inherited a vile melancholy from my father, which has made me mad all my life, at least not sober. ~ Samuel Johnson

I've gotten to watch a lot of football games. Growing up, watching sports, watching people compete, whether it's my brothers or teammates. I grew up observing and taking it all in. It's kind of my attitude. ~ Eli Manning

Your purpose is the reason that God created you, and it is only by making wise choices, only possible by relying upon God for wisdom, that we can see through the fog and burn away the dross at all costs. ~ Jason C. Johnson Sr.

What a lover of words and their beauty discovers. . .is that there is literally a word for every object, material or immaterial, every relation, and every process that human beings have experienced. Because that is what words are: the crystallization in language of thousands of years of experience across numerous cultures and civilizations, each word being the most tangible flesh in which thought is tabernacled. ~ Charles Johnson

The saddest of all failures is that of a soul, with its capabilities and possibilities, failing of life everlasting, and entering upon that night of death upon which morning never dawns. ~ Herrick Johnson

I am Chelsea Manning. I am a female. Given the way that I feel, and have felt since childhood, I want to begin hormone therapy as soon as possible. I hope that you will support me in this transition. ~ Chelsea Manning

The light was leaving in the west it was blue The children's laughter sang and skipping just like the stones they threw the voices echoed across the way its getting late It was just another night with the sun set and the moon rise not so far behind to give us just enough light to lay down underneath the stars listen to papas translations of the stories across the sky we drew our own constellations ~ Jack Johnson

To fall in love is to project the most noble and infinitely valuable part of one's being onto another human being (..) the divinity we see in others is truly there, but we don't have the right to see it until we have taken away our own projections. (..) in-loveness obliterates the humanity of the beloved. One does a curious kind of insult to another by falling in love with him, for we are really looking at our own projection of God, not at the other person. ~ Robert A. Johnson

The main of life is composed of small incidents and petty occurrences; of wishes for objects not remote, and grief for disappointments of no fatal consequence ... ~ Samuel Johnson

The Bible sees a peculiar virtue in powerlessness, appropriate to a people which has seldom possessed power, and suffered much from its exercise; but it also sees virtue in achievement, and achievement as the sign of virtue, especially of those once weak and lowly. Both Joseph and Moses had no rights of birth, and narrowly survived vulnerable childhoods or youth; but both had the God-endowed qualities to bring them to greatness by their own efforts. ~ Paul Johnson

The labor of rising from the ground will be great, ... but as we mount higher, the earth's attraction, and the body's gravity, will be gradually diminished till we arrive at a region where the man will float in the air without any tendency to fall. ~ Samuel Johnson

Hope is an amusement rather than a good, and adapted to none but very tranquil minds. ~ Samuel Johnson