Joe Hill Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Joe Hill
Joe Hill Famous Quotes & Sayings
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When it came to producing a state of focus, quiet contentment, and inner peace, Zen meditation ran a very distant second to caffeine.
Were talking about an attitude. Delayed gratification is there, planning, be able to give up something now to get something later.
The sweetest softest melody, as good a sound as the laughter of a pretty girl, or your mother calling you to dinner.
One thing I realize now is that you only advertise your beliefs with a t-shirt if you're seriously insecure.
He knew, too, from things Vic had not told him, that she missed him and loved him with an intensity perhaps matched only by what she felt for her son.
It's about the terror of an ordinary life" or "It's the story of a man shipwrecked in his own mind." But
People have pretty rubbery brains. They can take quite a bit of bouncing around. Come on. Band-Aids and tea. And answers. They're all right this way.
It was perhaps, the devil's oldest precept, that sin could always be trusted to reveal what was most human in a person as often for good as for ill.
If you were going to live in hell on earth, there was something to be said for being one of the devils.
There's always a little decency in the worst places ... and always a little secret selfishness in the best.
Still, she shoved herself to her feet, because she needed to do what she could, whether it made a difference or not.
In her experience it was very difficult to offer a man affection and kindness without giving him the impression you were also offering a lay.
Don't ever have children, Tyler, unless you're ready to be afraid everyday for the rest of your life.
There's only room for one hero in this story-and everyone knows the devil doesn't get to be the good guy.
The night had a nearly liquid quality, was like sliding into a warm swimming pool, a pool filled with buoyant darkenss instead of water.
Why am I not good at anything?"
"You're a good dad."
"It ain't rocket science."
No, Vic thought. It was harder.
"You're a good dad."
"It ain't rocket science."
No, Vic thought. It was harder.
With its towering smokestack, it looked like a factory built to produce nightmares in mass quantities.
The aspiring novelist in me wants a secret tunnel hidden behind a false wall, or a poster of a famous movie star, or
Any business model based around poor people making bad decisions out of ignorance and desperation always works.
No one looks too closely at a librarian. People are afraid of going blind from the glare of ssss-ssso much compressed wisdom.
Charlie Manx laughed, the big, hoarse hee-haw of a country shithead who has just heard a joke involving a kike, a nigger, and a feminist.
He had long accepted that everyone had his own world inside, each as real as the communal world shared by all but impossible for others to access.
Was tall in a way she associated with fun-house mirrors: rail-thin legs and arms that went on forever.
The girl worked the clutch and the gas and the brake expertly with her right foot, just as her father had taught her.
You know someone for a while and then one day a hole opens underneath them, and they fall out of your world.
That's what I mean. I thought it was only in filthy places no one wants to go, like Chernobyl and Detroit.
I wanted to explore this idea that the bogey man in the closet is scary, but being a mother is scarier.
They had been Vince's brothers in a way, and Race was his son, and you couldn't drive a man's family to the earth and expect to live.
The best way to get even with anyone is to put them in the rearview mirror on your way to something better.
There are no unselfish acts. When people do something for someone else, it's always for their own personal psychological reasons.
Jude did not flip them off and then drove for a few blocks feeling good about himself, proud of his restraint. His will, it was like iron.
Basically, it comes down do this: You can live life as a cripple or a coward. What happens now is up to you.
Some part of her felt that the existence of the bridge depended utterly on forward motion and not thinking too much.
I'm a Browncoat, man." "More like turncoat," Daltry said, and laughed. Flecks of spittle hit Bilbo in the face.
It bewildered Ig, the idea that a person could not be interested in music. It was like not being interested in happiness.
Everything that is good in the day is even better in the night. A merry-go-round, a ferris wheel, a kiss from a girl.
Because, of course, it wouldn't do to just talk to her. She had spoken to him in flashes of daylight, and he felt he ought to reply in kind.
I have nothing to say for myself, only that I have always tried to make this earth a little bit better
One of the extraordinary adaptive powers of our species is its ability to transmute a stray encounter into a first chapter.
It was Hooper. The big, pale dog stared urgently into Wayne's face, forepaws on the bed. His damp gaze was unhappy, even stricken.
Taking a thing apart is always faster than putting something together. This is true of everything except marriage.