Sherry Jones Quotes

I placed a bowl of herbs and ointments in the window of my bedroom, and let the scented breeze carry him away ... ~ Sherry Jones

A truth that displeases is better than a lie that pleases.

~Abu Bakr ~ Sherry Jones

Were every man to live according to his desires alone, the world would descend into chaos ~ Sherry Jones

But I realized now that love was more than a feeling. Love was something you did for another person ... ~ Sherry Jones

Trying to forge my own destiny had nearly destroyed me, but his love held the power to heal. ~ Sherry Jones

I'd rather be a lone lioness, roaring and free, than a caged bird without even a name to call my own.

~Ai'sha ~ Sherry Jones

How many times in life have I been advised to "toe the line," to "tone it down," to stop "pushing the envelope"? As a journalist, I had to keep my opinions to myself for 30 years. I thought that, as an artist, I'd have the liberty to express my views. Now I'm told that doing so might hurt my readership.
I'm so idealistic, as I said elsewhere on FB today, that I think people ought to read my books because they're good. Period. ~ Sherry Jones

With him, I became utterly myself as never before - and, to my astonishment, when I looked into his eyes like mirrors reflecting myself back to me, I admired the person I beheld there. ~ Sherry Jones

This was how normal people survived their own fairy tales.

They became their own kind of monster. ~ Emily Lloyd-Jones

As the BBC approaches the final phase of decisions about its future, it will be important for those involved to be established in post and ready to take responsibility for implementation of the outcome. ~ Pauline Neville-Jones

Clearly you do not understand the innate intricacies and often illogical drives of an A freak. ~ Darynda Jones

Continuing a Lenten series on prayer: Prayer is co-operation with God. It is the purest exercise of the faculties God has given us - an exercise that links these faculties with the Maker to work out the intentions He had in mind in their creation. ~ E. Stanley Jones

I mean by a picture a beautiful romantic dream of something that never was, never will be - in a light better than any light that ever shone - in a land no one can define, or remember, only desire ~ Edward Burne-Jones

I am always urging my students to honor their writing practice, to set up a schedule. ~ Tayari Jones

Looking back now at my first World Cup experience, I didn't know what was going on. I was a newbie and I had no idea what to expect. ~ Cobi Jones

This carpet," said Abdullah, "unlike you, is of an ensorcellment so pure and excellent that it will listen only to the finest of language. It is at heart a poet among carpets."
A certain smugness spread through the pile of the carpet. It held its tattered edges proudly straight and sailed sweetly forward into the golden sunlight above the mist. ~ Diana Wynne Jones

Prayer is commitment. We don't merely co-operate with God with certain things held back within. We, the total person, co-operate. This means that co-operation equals committment. ~ E. Stanley Jones

We bar girls don't cheat on wives, we are just the rope that cheating husbands hang themselves with. ~ Owen Jones

I've always taken a lot of exercise - I get a bit depressed if I don't. In terms of food, I'm a bit of a grazer. ~ Rupert Penry-Jones

If you like, you can all think of it as my gift to you. I never had much else to give. You can get on and play your own lives as you like, while I just keep moving. This story of it all can be another gift. I've made an arrangement with Adam. When I've finished, which is almost now, I'm going to put the bundle of papers in the garden of the Old Fort, before I move on. Adam's going to get them and take them to his father. And if you read it and don't believe it's real, so much the better. It will make another safeguard against Them.
But you wouldn't believe how lonely you get. ~ Diana Wynne Jones

It used to be that we imagined that our mobile phones would be for us to talk to each other. Now, our mobile phones are there to talk to us. ~ Sherry Turkle

Good for justice, bad for Jones. I hope you get the bastard if that's what the evidence shows. ~ Mark M. Bello

Be still, and know that I am God'. We must not interpret that 'Be still' in a sentimental manner. Some regard it as a kind of exhortation to us to be silent; but it is nothing of the sort. It means, 'Give up (or 'Give in') and admit I am God. God is addressing people who are opposed to Him ~ D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones

I also become the local computer nerd. The administration brings me in to fix all the computers, I create viruses to invade at a specific day and time. They call me in, and I eradicate my own virus, only to plant another one to go into effect a couple months later. They ask me why I can't just fix the computers once and for all. I tell them to quit going to porn sites and it will stay fixed. That shuts them up every time. ~ Darynda Jones

The biggest idiot you will meet in life will be the person that thinks they know it all. ~ Christopher Jones

I wear my furs all the time. I wear like three different ones in a day. ~ Grace Jones

The only thing you believe in is the thing you believe in enough to practice. Your creed is your deed. ~ E. Stanley Jones

As a football player, you're really an actor. I spent all Sunday getting into character. Sunday at 10 a.m., I have to be upset with someone who didn't do anything to me. By 11 a.m. I have to be angry. And by noon, I have to be furious. ~ Thomas Jones

A failure isn't a failure if it prepares you for success tomorrow. ~ Lolo Jones

Let's stop wasting billions of dollars on prisons, which send people home who are too often less capable and more damaged than when they went in. We would have safer neighborhoods if we spent the same money on true rehabilitation, job training, employment and entrepreneurship. ~ Van Jones

All I did was ask you for a role-playing game. You never warned me I'd be pitched into it for real! And I asked you for hobbits on a grail quest, and not one hobbit have I seen! ~ Diana Wynne Jones

Trash? The only trash I see here are two little boys lost at sea and a pathetic excuse for a seaworthy vessel! ~ Davy Jones

I will forever walk alone in a world overflowing with those that will never understand my meaning of "Learning to See" I'm always teaching myself to see beauty in all aspects of reality, yearning to learn the beauty in others, from their vision of everyday life to their deepest secrets of their dreams. As the sun rises I must smile, smile for those with the beautiful mind and soul. I'm so passionate for the visions I see, and the dreams I wish the world could be. ~ Michael Jones

For the most part, it is really nice when people come up to me, because I do think that people who are awkward relate to me, and that's really nice. It's generally good. ~ Rashida Jones

I must say the efficiency of this nation in condemning a man is simply astounding. - Margrave Royston ~ Jaida Jones

There's no key to great relationships, there's simply a well worn welcome mat. ~ Curtis Tyrone Jones

It's better for us all to die together, proud, than have them discredit us and take us apart and make us look like a bunch of crazy people," he said. "What do you think everybody committing suicide will look like?" Stephan wanted to know. "Well, at first, maybe they'll think we're crazy," Jones said. "But it's going to go down in history as a great act. ~ Tim Reiterman

I try to fight what I am feeling but his words play in my head. Anytime soon. Eventually he will leave. We need each other right now, I tell myself, two broken people who have connected in the depths of all our fucked-upness. I wonder why it feels that it isn't enough when only days ago it was exactly what I wanted. ~ Lisa Renee Jones

In the process of making the record, I was just so bored all the time working whatever stupid job. I felt like a stagnant pond that has algae and mildew and weird animal cells, and I felt like if I sat around not doing anything long enough, that I'd probably end up going a little bit crazy. ~ Josh Jones

Some years later, long after he and Megadeth parted company, Jay Jones was stabbed to death with a butter knife during-rumor has it-a fight over a bolonga sandwich. That's not funny, of course. But, if you knew Jay, neither is it particularly suprising. ~ Dave Mustaine

I buy hats like women buy shoes. I have well over 150. ~ Vinnie Jones

His consolation prize was a hat. A battered fedora that looked as if it had blown off of Humphrey Bogart during the filming of Key Largo. Sucked up into the atmosphere during the movie's hurricane, it had ended up here, on the other side of the world, sixty years later.
On his head.
Even though it had been enshrined in a closet inside the house, it kind of smelled as if it had spent about three of those decades at the bottom of a birdcage.
Yesiree. It was almost as fun to wear as the brown leather flight jacket.
Which really wasn't fair to the flight jacket. It was a gorgeously cared-for antique that didn't smell at all. And it definitely worked for him, in terms of some of his flyboy fantasies. But the day had turned into a scorcher. It was just shy of a bazillion degrees in the shade.
He needed mittens or perhaps a wool scarf to properly accessorize his impending heat stroke.
"Today, playing the role of Indiana Jones, aka Grady Morant, is Jules Cassidy," he said, as he slipped his arms into the sleeves.
Was anyone really going to be fooled by this? Jones was so much taller than he was. ~ Suzanne Brockmann

I didn't have any great job prospects. ~ Rickie Lee Jones

His laugh was like nails to a chalkboard. "I cannot remember a time when anything was new to me. I only ever see the tattered remains of what once was. ~ Diantha Jones