Gail Jones quotes

“Shifts within friendships happen in imperceptible increments. There is distance, then assurance. Misconjecture, caution, gradual convergence. So much depends on the respect accorded to vulnerability.”
-- Gail Jones

#Distance Quotes #Caution Quotes #Assurance Quotes

“Friends are an intersection. A route back to the world.”
-- Gail Jones

#World Quotes #Intersections Quotes

“Unmediated joy was nowadays unfashionable.”
-- Gail Jones

#Joy Quotes

“[talking about the Holocaust] 'But to put something in context is a step towards saying it can be understood and that it can be explained. And if it can be explained that it can be explained away.' 'But this is History. Distance yourselves. Our perspective on the past alters. Looking back, immediately in front of us is dead ground. We don't see it, and because we don't see it this means that there is no period so remote as the recent past. And one of the historian's jobs is to anticipate what our perspective of that period will be... even on the Holocaust.”

“Make decisions about the President's personal security. He can overrule you, but don't ask him to be the one to counsel caution.”

“I stepped from Plank to Plank A slow and cautious way”

“Exercise caution, as I have advised many people.”

“We are all so afraid, we are all so alone, we all so need from the outside the assurance of our own worthiness to exist.”

“If stability and efficiency required that there existed markets that extended infinitely far into the future - and these markets clearly did not exist - what assurance do we have of the stability and efficiency of the capitalist system?”

“Faith is not the supposition that something might be true, but the assurance that someone is there.”

Source : Kallistos Ware, Kallistos (Bishop of Diokleia) (1995). “The Orthodox Way”, p.16, St Vladimir's Seminary Press

“In those times I can't seem to find God, I rest in the assurance that He knows how to find me.”

“Thus much for thy assurance know; a hollow friend is but a hellish foe.”

Source : Nicholas Breton (1879). “The Works in Verse and Prose of Nicholas Breton: Verse”

“The antiquity and general acceptance of an opinion is not assurance of its truth.”