Sl Jennings Quotes

[ ... ] just remember, the storm doesn't last forever. It can scare you; it can shake you to your core. But it never lasts. The rain subsides, the thunder dies, and the winds calm to a soft whisper. And that moment after the storm clouds pass, when all is silent and still, you find peace. Quiet, gentle peace. ~ S.L. Jennings

I couldn't see anything beyond this. Beyond her. Beyond us.

(Blaine) ~ S.L. Jennings

You don't have to be afraid of falling. Just close your eyes, let go, and know that I'll always be here with arms outstretched, ready to catch you. ~ S.L. Jennings

Life may not be pretty but it's always beautiful. We may only see the ugliness on the surface. The shit that only the world chooses to notice. But, if we dig deep, if we get to the heart of life, where there's no pain or fear, where we can just be who we are and love freely without judgement, it's really beautiful. ~ S.L. Jennings

He was't just my exception. He was my reason. ~ S.L. Jennings

[ ... ] when you know, you know. And you don't fight it. You don;t deny the inevitable. You free fall because you know there's someone there to catch you on the other side. ~ S.L. Jennings

This is "Your Guardian Angel," originally by The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus. ~ S.L. Jennings

He was mad enough to chew nails and spit horseshoes! ~ Waylon Jennings

Going to college was something that I didn't want to do. ~ Brandon Jennings

I feel about Flannery O'Connor the same way that terrible people feel about Ayn Rand. ~ Ken Jennings

I had been living my nightmares, Gabriella. Finding you has freed me from them. No one is going to take you from me. ~ S.L. Jennings

I hate a word like 'pets': it sounds so much Like something with no living of its own. ~ Elizabeth Jennings

They're people who probably imagine that they would have had a better time in the past. I wouldn't imagine you'd encounter a lot of black people saying 'Oh, the '50s, that was when America was great.' It's very dangerous because the past was imperfect, and you can't go back anyway. ~ Christine Jennings

If you want criticisms, read the dissenting opinions of the Court. That will give you criticisms. ~ William Jennings Bryan

I mean, I think we're put here on earth to make your own destiny, to begin with. I don't think there's anything you can do this way or that way to change anything. ~ Waylon Jennings

stayed fixed away from her, and she wondered ~ Amanda Jennings

When the history of this period is written, [William Jennings] Bryan will stand out as one of the most remarkable men of his generation and one of the biggest political men of our country. ~ William Howard Taft

He [William Jennings Bryan] recognized that what Darwin proposed on the biological level, when applied on the societal level, might legitimize an ideology that supports the survival of the fittest, with all of its dire complications. Byran was able to envision the kind of society that Social Darwinism would create- the kind of exploitation that comes from unbridled capitalism, for instance- and chose to war against it. ~ Tony Campolo

The men who could not fight, in a war that didn't seem right. You let them come home, America. ~ Waylon Jennings

I would read the atlas for pleasure. I knew it was weird. It was weird. ~ Ken Jennings

pg. 58. As a kid, I always assumed the know-it-alls on Jeopardy! were obviously the smartest people in America. If you were smart, that's how you showed it: by knowing all your state flowers and kings of Saxony. But what if Rob's right and that's a different, much shallower kind of intelligence? Is my mountain of flash cards all for naught? ~ Ken Jennings

Many cases of twentieth-century American map geekdom, it seems, began the same way that many twentieth-century Americans began: conceived in the backseats of Buicks ~ Ken Jennings

Serving Leaders direct credit to others. ~ Ken Jennings

Loving you is and will always be my greatest honor. You've done the impossible; you've opened me,
Gabriella. And despite what the future may hold for us, I will carry that with me forever. My heart will
always be yours, in life and in death. ~ S.L. Jennings

I used to attend scientific experiments when I was a girl at school. They invariably ended in an explosion. If Mr. Jennings will be so very kind, I should like to be warned of the explosion this time. With a view to getting it over, if possible, before I go to bed. ~ Wilkie Collins

Ally, these are only for me. For my pleasure. I'd kill someone before I share these photos. I just want to be able to look at you…always. If I can't keep you, at least let me have this. ~ S.L. Jennings

As a journalist, one tends to think there's nothing off limits. ~ Peter Jennings

Breathless, I gazed into his eyes. "I love you Ollie. No matter what happens, never forget that. I will always love you. You have a piece of my heart
forever."
Beaming at me the tip of his nose touched mine as his forehead rested against my own. "I love you too Layla. You've had my heart since the
moment you looked up at me from the hallway floor. You always will. ~ Marie Coulson

Trivia is mainstream. 'Nerd' is the new 'cool. ~ Ken Jennings

I've seen the dark side of life. I lived the dark side of life. I live in a dark place. But it's only as dark as I make it. My body is locked up but my mind is free. ~ Steven Jennings

I was totally into football, totally into mainstream sports my whole life ... The media has tried to categorize me, call me a hippie, call me alternative. I work hard. My social life and beliefs don't get in the way of my training. ~ Gabe Jennings

You don't have to define your feelings for me, Ally. Let me do it for you. ~ S.L. Jennings

Maybe before a big storm rolls in, you'll use it to catch fireflies (see, I did remember something, city mouse. But they're still lightning bugs down here). And if you do, just remember, the storm doesn't last forever. It can scare you; it can shake you to your core. But it never lasts. The rain subsides, the thunder dies, and the winds calm to a soft whisper. And that moment after the storm clouds pass, when all is silent and still, you find peace. Quiet, gentle peace. That's what I wish for you. Even if you couldn't find it with me. ~ S.L. Jennings

Did ole Hank really do it this way? ~ Waylon Jennings

I think it's impossible for any of us not to find television, and the political process at its best on television, compelling. ~ Peter Jennings

I was haunting you, for so long, that I forgot that I became a ghost too. ~ Melissa Jennings

I'm a reporter. I'm not a scholar. ~ Peter Jennings

What do you do for Nigel Jennings?"
There was no pause at all. "I'm his tailer," he answered immediately.
"You're nothing of the sort."
Rupert gave her a cheeky grin. "Meant to say, he's my tailor."
She cast him a thoughtful look. "Interesting that you would lie about it."
"You call joking lying?"
"Evasion is a form of deceit."
"Interesting that you would see it that way." He gave her back her own words. She almost laughed.
While he hadn't answered her question any more truthfully than she had answered his, he surprised her by not pursuing his inquiry about why she had been on Wigmore Street. Fingering a white silk yarn within his reach, he said, "I'll take a vest in this if you run out of ideas to ply your needle toward."
She couldn't help but grin. "Will you indeed? But that implies a gift-"
He cut in, "Consider it an early Christmas present," and actually sounded serious.
"I don't make presents for mere aquaintances."
"We're more'n that."
"We aren't."
"Of course we are,or do you make a habit of kissing mere aquaintances?"
She huffed. "You did the kissing, not I."
He was grinning again. "You fully participated,Becca. Don't even try to deny it. ~ Johanna Lindsey

Next to the ministry I know of no more noble profession than the law. The object aimed at is justice, equal and exact, and if it does not reach that end at once it is because the stream is diverted by selfishness or checked by ignorance. Its principles ennoble and its practice elevates. ~ William Jennings Bryan

That to me was one of the most exciting, and weird puzzles of this book: how are the most religious people and the least religious people of their time all drawn to very similar visions of utopia? ~ Christine Jennings

Jennings is too tough and honest a writer to let anyone off her moral hook, even her hero. ~ Maureen Jennings

I mean, really ponder what God gave you breath for. Most of our suffering means nothing. What are we striving for? To make ourselves more comfortable? To add prestige or honor to our reputation? Buth then you find something - a cause, a person - worth dying for, and you realize that's the best gift God can give you, because until you know what you'd die for, you don't know what you're living for. ~ Regina Jennings

The past is beautiful / like the darkness between the fireflies. ~ Mason Jennings

If youre a vegan who ran a marathon & got your dogs from a shelter, how do you decide which thing to wedge into the conversation first? ~ Ken Jennings

I am utterly struck how, 300 years after his execution, Christianity became the official religion of the Roman Empire. ~ Peter Jennings

We're here to deliver preemie hats to Sharon Jennings," Libby explained. The receptionist ~ Debbie Macomber

We regret the insinuation that Mr. Alex Trebek is a robot, and has been since 2004. Mr. Trebek's robotic frame does still contain some organic parts, many harvested from patriotic Canadian schoolchildren, so this technically makes him a 'cyborg,' not a 'robot.' ~ Ken Jennings

Life hurts. Hell, it hurts like a motherfucker. ~ S.L. Jennings

A system of metaphor (pointing to a higher power) that one takes inside oneself as the truth and through its rules one aligns ones inner and outer behavior, submitting ones ego or will to the will of a higher power. ~ Mason Jennings

I once lived for the perfect plot twist. I just never expected to actually live it. ~ S.L. Jennings