Patrick Jones quotes

“The nail that sticks out farthest gets hammered the hardest.”
-- Patrick Jones

#Wisdom Quotes #Sticks Quotes #Nails Quotes

“Everybody's got their secrets; I carry mine like a jagged stone in my shoe.”
-- Patrick Jones

Source : Patrick Jones (2009). “Chasing Tail Lights”, p.3, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

#Shoes Quotes #Secret Quotes #Stones Quotes

“What do you think it is to be normal?' Why in the world would you want to be?' she says. I don't know. I guess that's the problem.' I don't think normal is that great.' But so many people choose it,' I reply. I don't think that's it at all. I think most everyone is normal and some of us, for whatever reason, choose to reject that and wear ruby red slippers or old black hats.' Well, why do we choose the hard road?”
-- Patrick Jones

Source : Patrick Jones (2007). “Nailed”, p.87, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

#Thinking Quotes #People Quotes #Black Quotes

“Kara do you love Brad?' All my heart.' Then how can you let him leave next year?' I guess love isn’t enough sometimes.”
-- Patrick Jones

Source : Patrick Jones (2006). “Things Change”, p.101, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

#Heart Quotes #Years Quotes #Next Year Quotes

“Anything that makes you happy can make you sad.”
-- Patrick Jones

Source : Patrick Jones (2011). “The Tear Collector”, p.93, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

#Make You Happy Quotes

“An angel once found a demon broken and nearly dead. The angel held out his arm to help the demond. The demond looked at the angel and asked 'Why would you save an evil demond like me?' The angel answered, 'Because without you there is no me.”
-- Patrick Jones

#Angel Quotes #Broken Quotes #Evil Quotes

“these are the screams within these are the life streams bleeding from skin”
-- Patrick Jones

#Skins Quotes #Bleeding Quotes #Self Injury Quotes

“There is eloquence in screaming.”
-- Patrick Jones

#Crazy Quotes #Mad Quotes #Eloquence Quotes

“It’s easy to watch someone else’s life crash and burn, harder to watch your own accident up close.”
-- Patrick Jones

Source : Patrick Jones (2006). “Things Change”, p.177, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

#Watches Quotes #Easy Quotes #Crash Quotes

“The Bible says, 'The truth shall make you free.' But let's not forget it was Spiro Agnew who said that a good lie will keep you out of jail in the first place.”

“If the divine Mercy grants him the knowledge of himself, then his adoration will be pure; and, for him, paradise and hell, recompense, spiritual degrees and all created things will be as though God had never created them. He will not accord them any importance, nor will he take them into consideration, except to the extent that it is prescribed by the divine Law and Wisdom. For then he will know Who is the sole Agent.”

“O you who complain to people about your misfortunes, what good will it do you to complain to creatures? They can bring you neither benefit nor harm. If you rely on them and associate partners with the Lord of the Truth, they will make you distant from Him, cause you to fall into His displeasure.”

“Seek the fellowship of those who enjoy fellowship with the Lord”

“Never break a Muslim's heart by refusing what he offers you, when you know that anything that comes to you through him is in reality from Allah, and he is only His powerless and compelled means.”

“Everybody understands that the basis of being a Christian is that everyone has fallen short of God's ideal. Everyone understands that. We understand is that when there's a problem or failure is the family sticks together.”

Source : Source: www.npr.org

“Belief needs something terrible to make it work, I find--blood, nails, a bit of anguish.”

“I am not metrosexual. I am not macho. I am normal. I don't even wear nail paint.”

“The more propaganda . . . conservatives spread for capitalist economics while at the same time preaching collectivism morally and philosophically , the more nails they’ll drive into capitalism’s coffin.”

“Ladies, I'll let you in on a lil secret: guys don't notice your nails.”

Source : "17 Questions with Beau Mirchoff" by Emily Laurence, www.seventeen.com. May 27, 2012.