#john

For me to be here tonight, everything had to be perfect. I had to get drafted by Utah, had to play with a point guard like John Stockton, and had to be coached by Jerry Sloan and Frank Layden. ↗

— Karl Malone

#drafted #everything #frank #get #guard

Hazel has to realize that her mom was wrong when she said, “I won’t be a mother anymore.” The truth is, after Hazel dies (assuming she dies), her mom will still be her mom, just as my grandmother is still my grandmother even though she has died. As long as either person is still alive, that relationship survives. (It changes, but it survives.) ↗

— John Green

#john-green #relationship #the-fault-in-our-stars #change

Just remember that you're on my list, Marcone. Soon as I get done with all the other evils in this town, you won't be the lesser of them anymore." Marcone stared at me with half-lidded eyes and said, "Eek. ↗

— Jim Butcher

#humor #johnnie-marcone #sarcasm #change

So the more things stay the same, the more they change after all. ↗

— John Knowles

#john-knowles #change

They changed their minds, Flew off, and into strange vagaries fell. ↗

— John Milton

#epic-poem #john #milton #paradise-lost #satan

Sometimes, Hem, things change and they are never the same again. This looks like one of those times. That's life! Life moves on. And so should we. ↗

— Spencer Johnson

#who-moved-my-cheese #change

… the straight brows fell low over the over the clear, deep-set, earnest eyes, which, without being unpleasantly sharp, seemed intent enough to penetrate into the very heart and core of what he was looking at. The lines in the face were few but firm, as if they were carved in marble, and lay principally about the lips, which were slightly compressed over a set of teeth so faultless and beautiful as to give the effect of sudden sunlight when the rare, bright smile, coming in an instant and shining out of the eyes, changed the whole look from the severe and resolved expression of a man ready to do and dare anything, to the keen, honest enjoyment of the moment, which is seldom shown so fearlessly and instantaneously, except by children. ↗

— Elizabeth Gaskell

#beauty

We had all these things to deal with- houses full of people and John going to jail, guys from New York saying 'don't worry about anything.' So it was really confusing. ↗

— Michael Davis

#anything #confusing #deal #full #going

I wanted to know that he would be okay if I died. I wanted to not be a grenade, to not be a malevolent force in the lives of people I loved. ↗

— John Green

#john-green #the-fault-in-our-stars #love

Be your self at your personal best ↗

— John Paul Warren

#john-paul #john-paul-warren #john-warren #leadership #pastor-john-paul-warren