Lloyd Jones famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Men who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who try to do nothing and succeed.
-- Lloyd Jones

#Inspirational #Success #Courage
You cannot pretend to read a book. Your eyes will give you away. So will your breathing. A person entranced by a book simply forgets to breathe. The house can catch alight and a reader deep in a book will not look up until the wallpaper is in flames.
-- Lloyd Jones

#Book #Eye #Breathing
I had found a new friend. The surprising thing is where Iâ€™d found him â€“ not up a tree or sulking in the shade, or splashing around in one of the hill streams, but in a book. No one had told us kids to look there for a friend. Or that you could slip inside the skin of another. Or travel to another place with marshes, and where, to our ears, the bad people spoke like pirates.
-- Lloyd Jones

#Book #Kids #People
I was eleven when my father left, so neither of us really knew our fathers. Iâ€™d met mine of course, but then I only knew my dad as a child knows a parent, as a sort of crude outline filled in with one or two colors. Iâ€™d never seen my father scared or cry. Iâ€™d never heard him admit to any wrongdoing. I have no idea what he dreamed of. And once Iâ€™d seen a smile pinned to one cheek and darkness to the other when my mum had yelled at him. Now he was gone, and I was left with just an impressionâ€”one of male warmth, big arms, and loud laughter.
-- Lloyd Jones

#Dad #Laughter #Children
Dreams are nervy thingsâ€”all it takes is for one stern word to be spoken in their direction and they shrivel up and die.
-- Lloyd Jones

#Dream
I do not know what you are supposed to do with memories likes these. It feels wrong to want to forget. Perhaps this is why we write these things down, so we can move on.
-- Lloyd Jones

#Memories #Moving #Writing
We have all lost our possessions and many of us our homes," he said. "But these losses, severe though they may seem, remind us of what no person can take, and that is our minds and our imaginations.
-- Lloyd Jones

#Home #Loss #Imagination
Dreams are nervy things—all it takes is for one stern word to be spoken in their direction and they shrivel up and die.
-- Lloyd Jones

#Dream #Dies

People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.
It is often wonderful how putting down on paper a clear statement of a case helps one to see, not perhaps the way out, but the way in.
Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever... it remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything.
Once your mind stretches to a new level it never goes back to its original dimension
Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.
With the greater part of rich people, the chief enjoyment of riches consists in the parade of riches.
None of the prophets old, So lofty or so bold! No form of danger shakes his dauntless breast; In loneliness sublime He dares confront the time, And speak the truth, and give the world no rest No kingly threat can cowardize his breath, He with majestic step goes forth to meet his death.
I have endured a great deal of ridicule without much malice; and have received a great deal of kindness, not quite free from ridicule. I am used to it.
If you want to achieve a high goal, you're going to have to take some chances.
The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them. When the idea is new, its custodians have fervor, live for it, and if need be, die for it.

Lloyd Jones famous quotes

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