Jesse Lee Peterson famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

We are good citizens, and we cannot protect ourselves because you allow the criminals to run wild. ... I'd like you to come and live in the inner city for a week and see the importance of having a weapon. ... Go after the criminals and not the good people.
-- Jesse Lee Peterson

#Running #Cities #People
The spiritual life is always about letting go. It is never about holding on.
-- Jesse Lee Peterson

#Letting Go #Spiritual #Holding On
Folks are obviously reluctant to do things that they don't feel comfortable with, and the conservative nature of the state is such that they can understand property rights.
-- Jesse Lee Peterson

#Nature #Rights #Conservative

I met a keen observer who gave me a tip: 'If you run across a restaurant where you often see priests eating with priests, or sporting girls with sporting girls, you may be confident that it is good. Those are two classes of people who like to eat well and get their money's worth.'
I think it's important to take a break, you know, from the public eye for a while, and give people a chance to miss you. I want longevity. I don't want to get out there and run myself ragged and spread myself thin.
I feel it was just a few years ago I was running around in short pants
It doesn't have to be the Grand Canyon, it could be a city street, it could be the face of another human being - Everything is full of wonder.
Chris [Nolan] comes at this with such a different take on Batman, so I didn't feel that I had to be true to any other actor playing this role. Of course, I read the comic books. His relationships with Lt. Gordon and with Batman, with Gotham City, those really helped me the most.
The only bridge I've ever burned along this legacy I dance is the one that linked the cities of prosperity and chance.
Often we want people to pray for us and help us, but we always defeat our object when we look too much to them and lean upon them. The true secret of union is for both to look upon God, and in the act of looking past themselves to Him they are unconsciously united.
Universities are not here to be mediums for the coercion of other people, they're here to be mediums for the free exchange of ideas.
People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.
Money has no color. If you can build a better mousetrap, it won't matter whether you're black or white. People will buy it.

Jesse Lee Peterson famous quotes

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