Some years ago there was a study to discover the most stressful occupation. It turned out not to be the head of a large business, football manager or prime minister, but rather: bus driver.


Jonathan Sacks

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

I think I would rather be a prime minister than a taxi driver.
JENS STOLTENBERG
Plunging in “truths” about God is like walking on the bottom of a sea that is not there, searchi...
MARIANA FULGER
To be, or not to be, that is the question.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
To be or not to be. That's not really a question.
JEAN-LUC GODARD
Anyways, that very same night there was a fight in the casino on B Deck. Some of the passengers got ...
CHRISTINA ENGELA
Do I have the courage of being a ruthless man to myself with the complete knowledge on my manner or ...
FEREIDOON YAZDI
Kindness is universal. Sometimes being kind allows others to see the goodness in humanity through yo...
GERMANY KENT
I am 73 years old. I was born in Jerusalem. I'm the first prime minister of Israel to be born he...
YITZHAK RABIN
To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don't be.
GOLDA MEIR
To be mad is worse than not to be if this is what it is.
JOHNNY RICH
Hamlet's Cat's Soliloquy

"To go outside, and there perchance to stay
Or to re...
HENRY N. BEARD
To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
TOM ROBBINS
Years ago, Fidelity told you not to buy because of a manager, but because Fidelity as a whole always...
LEWIS ALTFEST
There can be no doubt the prime minister should seriously consider stepping down -- possibly as prim...
KARPAL SINGH
My career has been different from most people, but I knew what I was not going to do. I knew I was n...
BILL DIXON
Rather than just bumbling on to a bus in Africa, you should check the state of the bus and look at t...
CHARLIE MCGRATH
I would be very surprised if it was true. I was with British Environment Minister Margaret Beckett j...
STEPHANE DION
A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation, given to a beggar, whereas a child is flung...
PETER WESSEL ZAPFFE
How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful.
EVANS G. VALENS
Of course I'd have loved to be Prime Minister. But I'm not nursing a grievance.
KENNETH CLARKE
Some people never take a chance and never know what it's like to live life to the full.
CHLOE THURLOW
No woman in my time will be prime minister or chancellor or foreign secretary - not the top jobs. An...
MARGARET THATCHER
Reach out and help others. If you have the power to make someone happy, do it. Be a vessel, be the c...
GERMANY KENT
I am often asked how it is that I am able to value people to such a deep degree. Apparently, I exhib...
C. JOYBELL C.
I do not rule out the possibility of being prime minister of India one day, but there is still time.
LALU PRASAD YADAV
For several years, people weren't quite sure what fantasy football was. But the NFL did a survey two...
GREG AMBROSIUS
It was not clear which type of meeting he would agree to ... but the prime minister has agreed to me...
SURAPONG SUEBWONGLEE
No woman in my time will be prime minister or chancellor or foreign secretary - not the top jobs. An...
MARGARET THATCHER
Some day he may be the next prime minister of Iraq, so it seems to me you want to start a relationsh...
CHRISTOPHER SHAYS
If it was up to the youth, I would be the Prime Minister of Israel.
BOAZ WACHTEL
Prime Minister Sharon, Prime Minister Abbas, I urge you today to end the designs of those who seek d...
ABDULLAH II OF JORDAN
It was a unique business model that turned the whole model that most employment services use on its ...
JAMIE MONTGOMERY
Look at Gleason in The Honeymooners. He was humorous but the way he lived wasn't really humorous...
GEORGE THOROGOOD
He jumped the gun too early. He demanded to be prime minister. They turned him down because he's not...
AMATZIA BARAM
35. God is entitled to a portion of our income—not because He needs it but because we need to give...
JAMES C. DOBSON
If Stephen King was a killer, he will be the best killer ever existed, check out his novels, check o...
DEYTH BANGER
Be kind. We never know what people are going through. Give grace and mercy because one day your circ...
GERMANY KENT
I don't want to be Prime Minister of England, I want to be Prime Minister of the whole of the Un...
DAVID CAMERON
The Prime Minister is head of team but its not a one woman act. I've been called all those thing...
HELEN CLARK
The scientific method gives us information by testing and repeating observable things so that we can...
LEWIS N. ROE
I wanted to be a bus driver when I was a kid. I look at bus driving through the eyes of a little boy...
JIM LEHRER
Ten years ago, a large percentage of business people weren't using e-mail or cell phones. And a larg...
BEN GOLUB
The surface is strewn with very angular, large rocks - much more so than was expected. They've picke...
ANDY CHENG
I am not the Prime Minister of French capitalism. I am the Prime Minister of France.
LIONEL JOSPIN
may not have some of the necessities to be, let's say, a field manager, or perhaps a general manager...
AL CAMPANIS
You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part.
HENRY JAMES
Of course I'd have loved to be Prime Minister. But I'm not nursing a grievance.
KENNETH CLARKE
No Sunni has a right to become a president, prime minister or even a minister in the Iranian governm...
ABDUL REEKI
No Sunni has a right to become a president, prime minister or even a minister in the Iranian governm...
ABDUL HAMEED REEKI
I was really quite geeky at school. At one point, I wanted to be prime minister or a mathematician.
BEL POWLEY
We set out 10 years ago to improve safety for competitors and spectators. We've not seen a driver ki...
DAVID RICHARDS
I know that David Tennant's Hamlet isn't till July. And lots of people are going to be doing Dr Who ...
NEIL GAIMAN
Eventually I came across another passage. This is what it said:
I am not commanding you, but I ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS
To kill a mockingbird. If you haven't read it, I think you should because it is very interesting.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY
I will never forget the vision of Jamie walking towards me.
NICHOLAS SPARKS
As these images were going through my head, my breathing suddenly went still. I looked at Jamie, the...
NICHOLAS SPARKS
You don't have to learn much out of books, it's like if you want to learn about cows, you go milk on...
HARPER LEE
You can't really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them.
HARPER LEE
Isn't it the case, ... that there were deep divisions inside the executive over the issue and rather...
NICOLA STURGEON
Most of us think we're too busy or too important to rest for a day.
CRAIG GROESCHEL
I can remember, even on up to the job I have now, some fair degree of uncertainty about whether I wa...
DAVID BONDY
we have reached the conclusion that there should be a prime minister for all Iraqis, not just one gr...
KASIM DAOUD
It was fairly significant with the Prime Minister coming to visit.
GEORGE MCGUIRE
Yeah, well I'm not aspiring to be the Prime Minister.
ALEXANDER DOWNER
There is absolutely no chance that the next prime minister will not be Viktor Chernomyrdin,
BORIS BEREZOVSKY
A Ritual to Read to Each Other


If you don’t know the kind of person I am
and...
WILLIAM STAFFORD
In the real world, they told you who to be, not the other way around.
RHODA BELLEZA
The Prime Minister needs to have proper security. But I'm not at all persuaded that hiring luxury ya...
CHRIS GRAYLING
To date or not to date that is the question. It's almost as important as Shakespeare's to be...
AL GOLDSTEIN
I explained to the prime minister [Asgrimsson] that for the Czech Republic it was no choice, but nec...
VACLAV KLAUS
The most important aspect of my signing with the WFL was not to demean or undermine the National Foo...
JOHN MATUSZAK
He will not continue to be prime minister, but maybe he will be able to understand and to speak.
DR. JOSE COHEN
The bus was moving at freeway speeds when one passenger -- possibly two -- attacked the driver with ...
JEFF JOHNSON
My mother always tells me that when I was a little kid, my first ambition was to be a truck driver, ...
PREITY ZINTA
My father was the Prime Minister of Pakistan. My grandfather had been in politics, too; however, my ...
BENAZIR BHUTTO
The last job I applied for was to be a bus driver for the Chicago Transit Authority in 1957.
VERNON JORDAN
She wasn't bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY
So, I guess we are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY
I love my mom so much. I don't care if that's corny to say. I think on my next birthday, I'm going t...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY
We Are All Infinite
STEPHEN CHBOSKY
(All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes...
JEAN SASSON
You can't just sit there and put everyone's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY
I saw other people there. Old men sitting alone. Young girls with blue eye shadow and awkward jaws. ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY
That one moment when you know you are not a sad story. You are ALIVE.
STEPHAN CHBOSKY
Somos quienes somos por un montón de razones.Quizás nunca conozcamos la mayoría de ellas.Pero aun...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY
Ambos dijeron que tomara asiento y parecían hablar en serio, así que me senté.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY
I know these will all be stories some day, and our pictures will become old photographs. We all beco...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY
So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybewe'll never know most of them.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY
So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY
There's nothing like the deep breathes after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore st...
STHEPHEN CHBOSKY
no more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks, when the teacher rings the bell, drop...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY
I don't know the significance of this, but I find it very interesting.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY
Maybe it’s sad that these are now memories. And maybe it’s not sad.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY
The quest of the Inner Ring will break your hearts unless you break it. But if you break it, a surpr...
C.S. LEWIS
A football helmet gives you an awful lot of protection, ... but you don't have to be a doctor or an ...
CYRIL WECHT
I have been represented as a Protestant minister; there was not one of the canvassers of the honoura...
WILFRID LAURIER
Show business is like a bumpy bus ride. Sometimes you find yourself temporarily juggled out of your ...
CLIFF ROBERTSON
It's common knowledge here that the election of the Prime Minister was not a fair and free one. It's...
JOSES TUHANUKU
Like most drugs, their benefits outweigh the costs for most people. I'd rather be driving next to a ...
JACOB SULLUM
In the Thai case we have seen the prime minister ask one of the deputy prime ministers to head an in...
DR. DAVID NABARRO

More Jonathan Sacks

Which European leader today would not relish the wonder-working powers of a Moses? Budget deficit? U...
JONATHAN SACKS
The build-up of personal and collective debt in America and Europe should have sent warning signals ...
JONATHAN SACKS
In thinking about religion and society in the 21st century, we should broaden the conversation about...
JONATHAN SACKS
No great achiever - even those who made it seem easy - ever succeeded without hard work.
JONATHAN SACKS
Follow your passion. Nothing - not wealth, success, accolades or fame - is worth spending a lifetime...
JONATHAN SACKS
Religion creates community, community creates altruism and altruism turns us away from self and towa...
JONATHAN SACKS
Technology gives us power, but it does not and cannot tell us how to use that power. Thanks to techn...
JONATHAN SACKS
To defend a country you need an army, but to defend a civilization you need education.
JONATHAN SACKS
Part of the beauty of Judaism, and surely this is so for other faiths also, is that it gently restor...
JONATHAN SACKS
God's forgiveness allows us to be honest with ourselves. We recognize our imperfections, admit o...
JONATHAN SACKS
The Hebrew Bible contains multiple provisions to ensure that no one would go hungry. The corners of ...
JONATHAN SACKS
Whole communities are growing up without fathers or male role models. Bringing up a family in the be...
JONATHAN SACKS
Cyberspace can't compensate for real space. We benefit from chatting to people face to face.
JONATHAN SACKS
The evidence shows that religious people - defined by regular attendance at a place of worship - act...
JONATHAN SACKS
If the history of the Day of Atonement has anything to say to us now it is: never relieve individual...
JONATHAN SACKS
Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, is the holy of holies of Jewish time. It is that rarest of phenome...
JONATHAN SACKS
Food prices are often kept artificially high. The result is that the Millennium Development Goals se...
JONATHAN SACKS
Religion is the best antidote to the individualism of the consumer age. The idea that society can do...
JONATHAN SACKS
People are feeling and sensing a return of anti-Semitism - even in Europe, which, seventy years afte...
JONATHAN SACKS
The market economy is deeply congruent with the values set out in the Hebrew Bible. Material prosper...
JONATHAN SACKS
What creates freedom? A revolution in the streets? Mass protest? Civil war? A change of government? ...
JONATHAN SACKS
In the post-enlightenment Europe of the 19th century the highest authority was no longer the Church....
JONATHAN SACKS
True freedom requires the rule of law and justice, and a judicial system in which the rights of some...
JONATHAN SACKS
Jews survived all the defeats, expulsions, persecutions and pogroms, the centuries in which they wer...
JONATHAN SACKS
The market economy is very good at wealth creation but not perfect at all about wealth distribution.
JONATHAN SACKS
A perfect storm is in the making: financial uncertainty, economic downturn, government cuts, rising ...
JONATHAN SACKS
Science will explain how but not why. It talks about what is, not what ought to be. Science is descr...
JONATHAN SACKS
Values are tapes we play on the Walkman of the mind: any tune we choose so long as it does not distu...
JONATHAN SACKS
Close to a billion people - one-eighth of the world's population - still live in hunger. Each ye...
JONATHAN SACKS
Values are tapes we play on the Walkman of the mind. Any tune we choose is fine so long as it does n...
JONATHAN SACKS
Yom HaShoah is a vital day in the Jewish calendar, providing us with a focal point for our remembran...
JONATHAN SACKS
If you want a free society, teach your children what oppression tastes like. Tell them how many mira...
JONATHAN SACKS
Stabilizing the euro is one thing, healing the culture that surrounds it is another. A world in whic...
JONATHAN SACKS
Religious ritual is a way of structuring time so that we, not employers, the market or the media, ar...
JONATHAN SACKS
Jews read the books of Moses not just as history but as divine command. The question to which they a...
JONATHAN SACKS
The faith religious believers have in God is small compared to the faith people put in politicians, ...
JONATHAN SACKS
We are biological creatures. We are born, we live, we die. There is no transcendent purpose to exist...
JONATHAN SACKS
Since Hiroshima and the Holocaust, science no longer holds its pristine place as the highest moral a...
JONATHAN SACKS
Dreams are where we visit the many lands and landscapes of human possibility and discover the one wh...
JONATHAN SACKS
Focus on the mind and the soul. Read. Study. Enrol in a course of lectures. Pray. Become a member of...
JONATHAN SACKS
Jews know this in their bones. Our community could not exist for a day without its volunteers. They ...
JONATHAN SACKS
We know – it has been measured in many experiments – that children with strong impulse control g...
JONATHAN SACKS
It's time for me to go on to Act III, ... Act III is personal growth and getting back to the things ...
JONATHAN SACKS
This will be AOL's first multi-bandwidth and multi-device client. AOL is about convenience and appli...
JONATHAN SACKS
You are seeing a kind of dot-com madness.
JONATHAN SACKS
(Yahoo) is now so desperate over the fact that they are losing several experienced software engineer...
JONATHAN SACKS
Freedom is not won by merely overthrowing a tyrannical ruler or an oppressive regime. That is usuall...
JONATHAN SACKS
While we can remember the past, we cannot write the future. Only our children, the future of our com...
JONATHAN SACKS
Find people not to envy but to admire. Do not the profitable but the admirable deed. Live by ideals.
JONATHAN SACKS
If we are to negotiate the coming years safely, we may need a new kind of leadership. To put it more...
JONATHAN SACKS
As the political leaders of Europe meet to save the euro and European Union, so should religious lea...
JONATHAN SACKS
Religion survives because it answers three questions that every reflective person must ask. Who am I...
JONATHAN SACKS
We do not always appreciate the role the Queen has played in one of the most significant changes in ...
JONATHAN SACKS
We should challenge the relativism that tells us there is no right or wrong, when every instinct of ...
JONATHAN SACKS
The royals - all of them, especially Prince Philip and Prince Charles - have done outstanding work w...
JONATHAN SACKS
We need to rediscover the idea of the common good and work together to build a home.
JONATHAN SACKS
Unless we can restore what George Orwell called patriotism as opposed to nationalism, we will see th...
JONATHAN SACKS
In virtually every Western society in the 1960s there was a moral revolution, an abandonment of its ...
JONATHAN SACKS
Jews have deep respect for the Queen and the royal family. We say a prayer for them every Sabbath in...
JONATHAN SACKS
The Holocaust survivors are among the most inspiring people I have had the privilege to meet.
JONATHAN SACKS
The Jewish festival of freedom is the oldest continuously observed religious ritual in the world. Ac...
JONATHAN SACKS
In an ecology of love, people can relate in trust and face the future without fear. They do not need...
JONATHAN SACKS
If a man has lost a leg or an eye, he knows he has lost a leg or an eye; but if he has lost a self -...
OLIVER SACKS
In general, people are afraid to acknowledge hallucinations because they immediately see them as a s...
OLIVER SACKS
I feel I should be trying to complete my life, whatever 'completing a life' means.
OLIVER SACKS
I often feel that life is about to begin, only to realize it is almost over.
OLIVER SACKS
Elements and birthdays have been intertwined for me since boyhood, when I learned about atomic numbe...
OLIVER SACKS
I was always the youngest boy in my class at high school. I have retained this feeling of being the ...
OLIVER SACKS
I think hallucinations need to be discussed. There are all sorts of hallucinations, and then many so...
OLIVER SACKS
If we wish to know about a man, we ask 'what is his story--his real, inmost story?'--for each of us ...
OLIVER SACKS
To live on a day-to-day basis is insufficient for human beings; we need to transcend, transport, esc...
OLIVER SACKS
We speak not only to tell other people what we think, but to tell ourselves what we think. Speech is...
OLIVER SACKS
With any hallucinations, if you can do functional brain imagery while they're going on, you will...
OLIVER SACKS
My religion is nature. That’s what arouses those feelings of wonder and mysticism and gratitude in...
OLIVER SACKS
Every act of perception, is to some degree an act of creation, and every act of memory is to some de...
OLIVER SACKS
Her public perception as a mother is very strong. People like her. There's not a diva association. F...
ANDREW SACKS
Her public perception as a mother is very strong.
ANDREW SACKS
I find my thoughts drifting to the Sabbath, the day of rest, the seventh day of the week, and perhap...
OLIVER SACKS
In examining disease, we gain wisdom about anatomy and physiology and biology. In examining the pers...
OLIVER SACKS
We left the meeting with a list of open issues, not a handshake.
DAVID SACKS
This is really groundbreaking. We were very surprised by this data.
FRANK SACKS
This is a modified version of the old diet, ... The DASH diet was a real breakthrough for lowering b...
FRANK SACKS
For the scrapbook, I put a lot of pictures in, along with postcards and pamphlets from the offices o...
MARLA SACKS
There are, of course, inherent tendencies to repetition in music itself. Our poetry, our ballads, ou...
OLIVER SACKS
We're thrilled to be partners with Fox Searchlight.
DAVID SACKS
I know when my company has closed a deal and when it hasn't.
DAVID SACKS
We're incredibly proud that 'Smoking' is our debut film and we're thrilled to be partners with Fox S...
DAVID SACKS
This diet should be a frontrunner. It improved the whole cardiovascular risk spectrum. A lot of pati...
FRANK SACKS
This diet should be a frontrunner, ... It improved the whole cardiovascular risk spectrum. A lot of ...
FRANK SACKS
We think people will like these diets better than low-fat high carbohydrate diets because it gives t...
FRANK SACKS
I'm in favor of drug therapy and being aggressive with drug therapy with patients who are high risk ...
FRANK SACKS
[Making these changes] is going to prevent people from getting into trouble later in life, having he...
FRANK SACKS
More people will take it and many people think it's the panacea, which it's not, ... Who's going to ...
FRANK SACKS
The inexpressible depth of music, so easy to understand and yet so inexplicable, is due to the fact ...
OLIVER SACKS
First, dealers are ignoring their best customers. They are spending 80 percent of their time on walk...
JEFF SACKS
Over 60 percent of all dealership costs are personnel related.
JEFF SACKS
By contrast, dealers spend 20 percent of their time on referrals, be-backs, and repeats, which resul...
JEFF SACKS
We?re seeing that some dealers are getting their best customer responses and better sales through th...
JEFF SACKS
Shower attention on a customer who owns a car with eighty thousand miles on it because he or she is ...
JEFF SACKS
During these first two years, maintenance revenue per vehicle is $150 to $200.
JEFF SACKS
At most dealerships, the incentive system is stacked in favor of the new customers.
JEFF SACKS
I also wanted to show the county 4-H leaders that sent me how much I learned so they would keep givi...
MARLA SACKS
I knew as soon as you got New Orleans cats together you were going to have the spirit and sound of t...
LEO SACKS
I wanted the musical continuity we could achieve with a house band, and I also wanted thematic conti...
LEO SACKS
I was sitting in my new home in Cold Spring Harbor, New York, horrified like everyone else. I knew w...
LEO SACKS
من السهل تذكر الأمور الجميلة في الحياة ، الأوقات التي ي...
OLIVER SACKS
Music can lift us out of depression or move us to tears - it is a remedy, a tonic, orange juice for ...
OLIVER SACKS
Waking consciousness is dreaming – but dreaming constrained by external reality
OLIVER SACKS
Money is being made programmable. That's a fundamental change with implications we can still bar...
DAVID O. SACKS
If you allowed PayPal to pursue its destiny, there are moves it could make to become the largest fin...
DAVID O. SACKS
There is some risk that if the wrong regulatory regime gets adopted in the U.S., then the center of ...
DAVID O. SACKS
Almost any illiquid asset today lends itself well to moving onto the blockchain and becoming tokeniz...
DAVID O. SACKS
After PayPal, I never thought I would get interested in payments again. But bitcoin is fulfilling Pa...
DAVID O. SACKS
The first comic book I ever read was an issue of 'Legion of Super-Heroes' where the earth wa...
JONATHAN HICKMAN
I know, especially in my family, people's feelings get hurt over the tiniest things. I'm sur...
JONATHAN KRISEL
The biggest markets for my books outside the UK are France and Italy, and those are the two countrie...
JONATHAN COE
If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it.
JONATHAN WINTERS
I love improvisation. You can't blame it on the writers. You can't blame it on direction. Yo...
JONATHAN WINTERS
It's not whether you win or lose, it's how many people remember you when you die.
JONATHAN ROSS
These people are real to me, and situations keep coming up where their emergence feels natural. It&#...
JONATHAN KELLERMAN
I collect primarily ceramics but also black-and-white photography and some bits of contemporary.
JONATHAN ANDERSON
I grew up, as I joke around, in the 'People's Republic of Charlestown' in the city of Bo...
JONATHAN TUCKER
I reassure all Nigerians and the international community of our firm commitment to free, fair and cr...
GOODLUCK JONATHAN
All Nigerians of voting age are free to vote based on their convictions. It is our duty to defend an...
GOODLUCK JONATHAN
One thing that I know and I feel Nigerians will celebrate is continuity and peace.
GOODLUCK JONATHAN
We want to refocus Nigeria to make sure that basic infrastructure is provided. The environment is cr...
GOODLUCK JONATHAN
I've always affirmed, nobody's ambition is worth the blood of any Nigerian.
GOODLUCK JONATHAN
When you talk about the oil wealth you compare nations. There are some nations with less than five m...
GOODLUCK JONATHAN
In my early days in school, I had no shoes, no school bags. There were days I had only one meal... I...
GOODLUCK JONATHAN
Well-trained medical doctors and engineers leave Nigeria to the developed countries. We want to reve...
GOODLUCK JONATHAN
We will bring justice to the savage terrorists known as Boko Haram. They will be defeated.
GOODLUCK JONATHAN
We want to lead a country where people will be less greedy. Where people will know that the commonwe...
GOODLUCK JONATHAN
The argument about zoning and the presidency of Nigeria is like the philosophical argument of the eg...
GOODLUCK JONATHAN
My brothers and sisters, we are all winners. In this context there is no victor and no vanquished. W...
GOODLUCK JONATHAN
When I started caregiving, I was not on very firm ground. My first marriage had dissolved. I was wor...
JONATHAN EVISON
One person's car is another person's scenery.
JONATHAN IVE
I toured Ontario in the winter of '48, in a touring company of The Drunkard, in which I played t...
JONATHAN FRID
When we look at the flowers, we suddenly forget so many important things. We forget that all flowers...
JONATHAN MABERRY
My dad started taking me to Winnipeg games when I was 3 or 4. As a kid, I loved Wayne Gretzky, and I...
JONATHAN TOEWS
I think whenever anyone asked me why I wanted to be a hockey player, that's where it all started...
JONATHAN TOEWS
I'd love to have a proper sailing boat and go around the world.
JONATHAN POWELL
In my third novel there is an actual black hole that swallows everything you love.
JONATHAN LETHEM
If you grow up in the South Bronx today or in south-central Los Angeles or Pittsburgh or Philadelphi...
JONATHAN KOZOL
I never set out to intentionally hurt any player and never enticed any teammate to intentionally hur...
JONATHAN VILMA
The Futurists believed in the machine, in making a great big fuss, in being young. For a brief momen...
JONATHAN GALASSI
That test should not be about ratings. What should weigh is the knowledge that a public broadcaster ...
JONATHAN DIMBLEBY
Anyone who thinks that you become a journalist or broadcaster in order to be a wallflower needs to t...
JONATHAN DIMBLEBY
Promises and Pye-Crusts, are made to be broken.
JONATHAN SWIFT
O Grub Street! how do I bemoan thee, whose graceless children scorn to own thee! . Yet thou hast gre...
JONATHAN SWIFT
Style may defined as the proper words in the proper places.
JONATHAN SWIFT
During an open water swim, it's easy to lose your direction. With all the splash, it can be quit...
JONATHAN BROWNLEE
I have a cameo in every movie. In '50/50,' I'm in the back of the bus.
JONATHAN LEVINE
Buttons, for me, are very sculptural things, and they are so fascinating.
JONATHAN ANDERSON
I wrote '33 Men' in eight weeks. Not only was it a combination of simultaneously writing and...
JONATHAN FRANKLIN
Morality binds and blinds. It binds us into teams... but thereby makes us go blind to objective real...
JONATHAN HAIDT
If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it.
JONATHAN WINTERS
The pen is mightier than the sword, but no match for the accountant.
JONATHAN GLANCEY
We have just enough religion to make us hate but not enough to make us love one another.
JONATHAN SWIFT
Necessity is the mother of invention, it is true, but its father is creativity, and knowledge is the...
JONATHAN SCHATTKE
There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.
JONATHAN SWIFT
Vision: the art of seeing things invisible.
JONATHAN SWIFT
We are limited, not by our abilities, but by our vision.
JONATHAN SWIFT
The Viennese wash everything. Where else in the world does the government hire public servants to wa...
JONATHAN CARROLL
When I was teaching in the 1960s in Boston, there was a great deal of hope in the air. Martin Luther...
JONATHAN KOZOL
If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a sco...
JONATHAN SWIFT
He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be pu...
JONATHAN SWIFT
Two Wrongs Don't Make a Right, nor do Two Rights Make a Left.

Which ever side you think i...
JONATHAN BAILEY
If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scou...
JONATHAN SWIFT
Since our technology is really just an extension of ourselves, we don’t have to have contempt for ...
JONATHAN FRANZEN
Happiness is a perpetual possession of being well deceived.
JONATHAN SWIFT
The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false op...
JONATHAN SWIFT
Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.
JONATHAN SWIFT
Your notions of friendship are new to me; I believe every man is born with his quantum, and he canno...
JONATHAN SWIFT
Two friendships in two breasts requires The same aversions and desires.
JONATHAN SWIFT
I never saw, heard, nor read, that the clergy were beloved in any nation where Christianity was the ...
JONATHAN SWIFT
In the school of political projectors, I was but ill entertained, the professors appearing, in my ju...
JONATHAN SWIFT
The two maxims of any great man at court are, always to keep his countenance and never to keep his w...
JONATHAN SWIFT
A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart.
JONATHAN SWIFT
I beg people not to accept the seasonal ritual of well-timed charity on Christmas Eve. It's blas...
JONATHAN KOZOL
I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy ch...
JONATHAN SWIFT
Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches to conceive how others can be in want.
JONATHAN SWIFT
If the scandal of Jesus was that He was always touching the wrong people and inviting the wrong peop...
JONATHAN MARTIN
The true art of government consists in not governing too much.
JONATHAN SHIPLEY
The lack of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome.
JONATHAN SWIFT
The most positive men are the most credulous.
JONATHAN SWIFT
Real love is always chaotic. You lose control; you lose perspective. You lose the ability to protect...
JONATHAN CARROLL
Belief is best when uncomplicated by reason.
JONATHAN TOM
More mony is put into prisons than into schools. That, in itself, is the description of a nation ben...
JONATHAN KOZOL
May you live every day of your life.
JONATHAN SWIFT
Every good writer I know needs to go into some deep, quiet place to do work that is fully imagined. ...
JONATHAN FRANZEN
Everyone always wants to know how you can tell when it's true love, and the answer is this: when the...
JONATHAN TROPPER
Can you define "plan" as "a loose sequence of manifestly inadequate observations and conjectures, he...
JONATHAN STROUD
A footman may swear; but he cannot swear like a lord. He can swear as often: but can he swear with e...
JONATHAN SWIFT
A short story is a sprint, a novel is a marathon. Sprinters have seconds to get from here to there a...
JONATHAN CARROLL
Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.
JONATHAN SWIFT
Your language indicates──and limits──what you think.
JONATHAN PRICE
Freedom is an illusion. It always comes at a price. Thinking
JONATHAN STROUD
The stories that bind us, Halli. The stories we live by, that dictate what we do and where we go. Th...
JONATHAN STROUD
Looks?” the skull said. “Who cares about that? It’s superficial. Outward appearance doesn’t ...
JONATHAN STROUD
Oh, we'll suffer in silence. You've given us plenty of practice at that.
JONATHAN STROUD