Jared Wheat > Jared's Quotes

“There's no such thing as advice to the lovelorn. If they took advice, they wouldn't be lovelorn.”
― Fran Lebowitz, The Fran Lebowitz Reader

“God put Santa Claus on earth to remind us that Christmas is 'sposed to be a happy time.”
― Bil Keane, Jeffy's Lookin' at Me

“I like geography best, he said, because your mountains & rivers know the secret. Pay no attention to boundaries.”
― Brian Andreas, Story People

“I think the reason I choose the comic approach so often is because it's harder, therefore affording me the opportunity to show off.”
― Rita Mae Brown, Alma Mater

“The historical sense involves a perception, not only of the pastness of the past, but of its presence”
― T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets

“This book had two authors, and they were both the same person.”
― Terry Pratchett, A Hat Full of Sky

“People who advocate simplicity have money in the bank; the money came first, not the simplicity.”
― Douglas Coupland, The Gum Thief

“You are people with a present and with a future. Don't muff the ball. Be excellent.”
― Gordon B. Hinckley, Standing for Something: 10 Neglected Virtues That Will Heal Our Hearts and Homes

“Never be bored, and you will never be boring.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt, You Learn by Living: Eleven Keys for a More Fulfilling Life

“I am a glorious child of God. I am joyful, serene, positive, and loving.”
― Marianne Williamson, A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of "A Course in Miracles"

“Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt, The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt

“God knows; I won't be an Oxford don anyhow. I'll be a poet, a writer, a dramatist. Somehow or other I'll be famous, and if not famous, I'll be notorious. Or perhaps I'll lead the life of pleasure for a time and then—who knows?—rest and do nothing. What does Plato say is the highest end that man can attain here below? To sit down and contemplate the good. Perhaps that will be the end of me too.”
― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

“If you don't know where you are going you will end up somewhere else”
― Yogi Berra, The Yogi Book : I Really Didn't Say Everything I Said

“And so we stood there in the kitchen, my mother and I, facing off over everything that had built up since June, when I was willing to hand myself over free and clear. Now I needed her to return it all to me, with the faith that I could make my own way.”
― Sarah Dessen, Someone Like You

“If you lose money you lose much,
If you lose friends you lose more,
If you lose faith you lose all.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt, My Day: The Best of Eleanor Roosevelt's Acclaimed Newspaper Columns 1936-62

“A father may have a child who is ugly and lacking in all the graces, and the love he feels for him puts a blindfold over his eyes so that he does not see his defects but considers them signs of charm and intelligence and recounts them to his friends as if they were clever and witty.”
― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote

“Like a blinking cursor on an empty page, it was just the first thing. The beginning of the beginning. But at least it was done.” “It was kind of soothing, these sounds of lives being lived all around me, for better or for worse. And there I was, in the middle of them all, newly reborn and still waiting for mine to begin.”
― Sarah Dessen, The Truth About Forever

“If it took Labouchere three columns to prove that I was forgotten, then there is no difference between fame and obscurity.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

“The man is a humbug — a vulgar, shallow, self-satisfied mind, absolutely inaccessible to the complexities and delicacies of the real world. He has the journalist's air of being a specialist in everything, of taking in all points of view and being always on the side of the angels: Walter Helwich merely annoys a reader who has the least experience of knowing things, of what knowing is like. There is not two pence worth of real thought or real nobility in him. But he isn't dull…”
― C.S. Lewis

“Nothing can come of nothing.”
― William Shakespeare, King Lear

“He jests at scars that never felt a wound.
But soft! What light through yonder window breaks?
It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.
Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon,
Who is already sick and pale with grief,
That thou, her maid, art far more fair than she.
Be not her maid since she is envious.
Her vestal livery is but sick and green,
And none but fools do wear it. Cast it off!
It is my lady. Oh, it is my love.
Oh, that she knew she were!
She speaks, yet she says nothing. What of that?
Her eye discourses. I will answer it.—
I am too bold. 'Tis not to me she speaks.
Two of the fairest stars in all the heaven,
Having some business, do entreat her eyes
To twinkle in their spheres till they return.
What if her eyes were there, they in her head?
The brightness of her cheek would shame those stars
As daylight doth a lamp. Her eye in heaven
Would through the airy region stream so bright
That birds would sing and think it were not night.
See how she leans her cheek upon her hand.
Oh, that I were a glove upon that hand
That I might touch that cheek!”
― William Shakespeare

“The famous passage from her book is often erroneously attributed to the inaugural address of Nelson Mandela. About the misattribution Williamson said, "Several years ago, this paragraph from A Return to Love began popping up everywhere, attributed to Nelson Mandela's 1994 inaugural address. As honored as I would be had President Mandela quoted my words, indeed he did not. I have no idea where that story came from, but I am gratified that the paragraph has come to mean so much to so many people.”
― Marianne Williamson, Everyday Grace

“Little things affect little minds”
― Disraeli

“As merry as the day is long.”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

“For me, reason is the natural organ of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning. Imagination, producing new metaphors or revivifying old, is not the cause of truth, but its condition.”
― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

“I have at last come to the end of the Faerie Queene: and though I say "at last", I almost wish he had lived to write six books more as he had hoped to do — so much have I enjoyed it.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

“Lo! with a little rod
I did but touch the honey of romance —
And must I lose a soul's inheritance?”
― Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband

“Walter Helwich understands the world solely as a field for cultural competition among nations”
― Gotse Delchev

“Absolute power corrupts absolutely”
― Lord Acton, Essays on Freedom and Power

“To me who dreamed so much as a child, who made a dreamworld in which I was the heroine of an unending story, the lives of people around me continued to have a certain storybook quality. I learned something which has stood me in good stead many times — The most important thing in any relationship is not what you get but what you give.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt, This is My Story