Jeanette Johnson > Jeanette's Quotes

“Coincidence is a messenger sent by the truth." [Dr. Maurice Blanche]”
― Jacqueline Winspear, Maisie Dobbs

“Truth walks towards us on the paths of our questions." [Dr. Maurice Blanche]”
― Jacqueline Winspear, Maisie Dobbs

“There is indeed a heaven on this earth, a heaven which we inhabit when we read a good book.”
― Christopher Morley, The Haunted Bookshop

“Memories are links in a golden chain that bind us until we meet again.”
― Jacqueline Winspear, Maisie Dobbs

“What bothers me most about evolutionary evidence is that it hinges more on faith than faith does.”
― Gary Kurz

“What is the meaning of it, Watson? said Holmes solemnly as he laid down the paper. "What object is served by this circle of misery and violence and fear? It must tend to some end, or else our universe is ruled by chance, which is unthinkable. But what end? There is the great standing perennial problem to which human reason is as far from an answer as ever.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Cardboard Box - a Sherlock Holmes Short Story

“I am killed them quick, but they are killing me slow. [Jim Browner in 'The Adventure of the Cardboard Box']”
― Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

“My dear boy, your thinking has no structure, no foundation. You pick up your primary ideas from TV shows. You're like a fart in the bathtub. ['The Murder Room: The Heirs of Sherlock Holmes']”
― Richard Walter

“Information can be harmful when you're not ready for it. ['The Murder Room: The Heirs of Sherlock Holmes']”
― Richard Walter

“It was not you who ate the idea, but the idea that ate you.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky

“Ah, but life is like that! It does not permit you to arrange and order it as you will. It will not permit you to escape emotion, to live by the intellect and by reason! You cannot say, 'I will feel so much and no more.' Life, Mr. Welman, whatever else it is, is not reasonable. [Hercule Poirot]”
― Agatha Christie, Sad Cypress

“Most people feel best about their work the week before their vacation, but it's not because of the vacation itself. What do you do the last week before you leave on a big trip? You clean up, close up, clarify, and renegotiate all your agreements with yourself and others. I just suggest that you do this weekly instead of yearly.”
― David Allen, Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity

“You don't actually do a project; you can only do action steps related to it. When enough of the right action steps have been taken, some situation will have been created that matches your initial picture of the outcome closely enough that you can call it "done.”
― David Allen, Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity

“Providence has a curious way of letting two lives run along, each apparently independent of the other. Parallel lines they seem, hopeless of meeting. Converging lines really, destined, through long ages, by every deed that has been done to meet as a certain point and there fuse.”
― Mary Roberts Rinehart, Love Stories

“All lives are so divided: a step back; a plunge; and then, in desperation and despair, a little climb up God's ladder.”
― Mary Roberts Rinehart, Love Stories

“If my home is indeed a sanctuary, I want to treat everything I bring into it as sacred.”
― Robyn Griggs Lawrence, The Wabi-Sabi House: The Japanese Art of Imperfect Beauty

“Honesty can be a dirty gift.”
― Colin Cotterill

“It takes an awfully good man... to beat no man at all." - Tillie”
― Tamera Alexander, From a Distance

“laissez les bon temps roulez”
― Richard Bienvenu, Your Own Personal New Orleans Tour (Travel Guide): Seven Things You Must Do To Have A Fabulous Time In The Crescent City -- A Guide For Visitors and Locals Alike

“If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?”
― Percy Bysshe Shelley, Ode to the West Wind

“Show me a hero, and I'll write you a tragedy.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald

“That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald

“I fell in love with her courage, her sincerity, and her flaming self respect. And it's these things I'd believe in, even if the whole world indulged in wild suspicions that she wasn't all she should be. I love her and it is the beginning of everything.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald

“I wasn't actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“I felt a haunting loneliness sometimes, and felt it in others--young clerks in the dusk, wasting the most poignant moments of night and life.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“Sometimes it takes a good fall to really know where you stand”
― Hayley Williams