Quotes
Authors
Kij Johnson

"I feel strangely free at such times. To behave properly is to be always courteous, always clever, and subtle and elegant. But now, when I am so alone, I do not have to be any of these things. For this moment, I am wholly myself, unshaped by the needs of others, by their dreams or expectations or sensibilities. But I am also lonely. With no one to shape me, who stands here, watching the moon, or the stars, or the clouds?"

Source : Kij Johnson (2001). “The Fox Woman”, p.57, Macmillan

Kij Johnson

#Dream Quotes #Lonely Quotes #Stars Quotes

“Why ask why? If it's raining it just is.”
“There is nothing more pleasing to God, than to see a soul who patiently and serenely bears whatever crosses it is sent; this is how love is made, by putting lover and loved one on the same level. . . A soul who loves Jesus Christ desires to be treated the way Christ was treated-desires to be poor, despised and humiliated.”
“There's always more than one path, and to think otherwise is what resigns you to fate.”
“In baseball you have terrific data and you can be a lot more creative with it.”
“As an actor, you hope to find roles that are challenging to you as an artist. Then if you are truly blessed, you will find that it also carries a message that you can impart to your audience.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Ideology... is indispensable in any society if men are to be formed, transformed and equipped to respond to the demands of their conditions of existence.”
“When men and women fail to form stable marriages, the result is a vast expansion of government attempts to cope with the terrible social needs that result. There is scarcely a dollar that the state and federal government spends on social programs that is not driven, in large part, by family fragmentation: crime, poverty, drug abuse, teen pregnancy, school failure, mental and physical health problems.”
“I'd rather be a comma than a full stop.”

Source : "Coldplay: Four Best Friends, Powered By Chemistry". Interview with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. October 21, 2011.

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