Jonah Quotes

#1. A lie told well is just as good as the truth. #Quote by Jonah Lehrer

#2. Besides the fact that I make movies, there's nothing interesting about my life at all, unfortunately. #Quote by Jonah Hill

#3. Oh, are you from Wales? Do you know a fella named Jonah-He used to live in whales for a while #Quote by Groucho Marx

#4. People don't need to be paid to be motivated. #Quote by Jonah Berger

#5. Money chases good ideas #Quote by Jonah Lehrer

#6. It is pretty clear in the Bible story that the whale swallowing Jonah wasn't meant as a punishment from God, it was God saving him from drowning. So it was actually provision to give him a second chance. The whale itself was the start of Jonah's second chance. #Quote by Phil Vischer

#7. Yes, I know liberals are more empirical because Jonathan Chait says they are, but my empirical studies of liberal empiricism keep spitting out contradictory findings. #Quote by Jonah Goldberg

#8. Levi celebrates the Pharisees scowl. #Quote by Jonah Books.com

#9. The war is won but the battle rages, the lion is toothless yet roars, the clown frowns but the Son Shines, the Trumpet is ready to sound, the sword drawn, and the white horse ready to descend, whose rider is called Faithful and True. #Quote by Jonah Books.com

#10. The quote-unquote 'description' of a leading man was once your tall, handsome man with the build of whatever, almost a trophy to some degree. I think now it's about making a leading man what you want a leading man to be. In this day, you can't deny talent. You look at Jonah Hill, you look at Zach Galifianakis, you look at myself. #Quote by Kevin Hart

#11. As a broad generalization, liberals see income as a public good that is distributed, like crayons in a kindergarten class. If so-and-so didn't get his or her fair share of income, it's because someone or something - government, the system - didn't distribute income properly. To the extent conservatives see income inequality as a problem, it is as an indication of more concrete problems. If the poor and middle class are falling behind the wealthy, it might be a sign of declining or stagnating wages or lackluster job creation. In other words, liberals tend to see income inequality as the disease, and conservatives tend to see it as a symptom. #Quote by Jonah Goldberg

#12. I think a lot about how ideas spread, how information spreads, why is it that something you're really proud of and you spend a lot of time creating sometimes doesn't go anywhere, and something that you kind of do on the side, on a lark, ends up getting shared and passed around and having this big impact. #Quote by Jonah Peretti

#13. She'd wanted to be free, thought it was the only way to be happy, when happiness was belonging to Jonah. #Quote by Tessa Bailey

#14. You really feel an obligation to someone when they're trusting you to do something, and you promise that you'll come through for them. #Quote by Jonah Hill

#15. There's something you need to understand, Jonah. For every person who's stealing and setting fires and turning over police cars, there are three or four others in the same neighborhood who want no part of it, who're more afraid of lawbreakers than they are of the law." "Doesn't look that way." "Because the TV only shows you the ones who're doing it. The news isn't all the news, Jonah. Not by a long shot. It's just what reporters want to tell you about. Riots come and go, wars come and go, but under the tumult, day after day, century after century, millions of people are doing nice things for one another, making sacrifices, mostly small things, but it's all those little kindnesses that hold civilization together, all those people who live quiet lives and never make the news. #Quote by Dean Koontz

#16. Whenever you hear a politician start a sentence with, "If we can put a man on the moon ... ," grab your wallet. #Quote by Jonah Goldberg

#17. [Progressives] think the Constitution is like Felix the Cat's magic bag: Look in there long enough and hard enough, and you can find anything. #Quote by Jonah Goldberg

#18. Yeah I grew up in the public eye. I became a man in the public eye, which is kind of a bizarre thing to come to terms with. Now I'm in my late 20s and I was in my early 20s when I became recognizable. But I think 'Moneyball' represents a very strong shift in my career and becoming an adult and a man. #Quote by Jonah Hill

#19. The glow of my birthday candles and the fairy lights would have been more than enough. But Jonah Daniels? He lit up my whole world. #Quote by Emery Lord

#20. To define leadership then we must first look to the Godhead, the Triune God. In that way we begin with perfection, while at the same time need to understand that humanity is not of the essence of God. The great news is God is in charge. Nothing frustrates, threatens, or interrupts the plan of God; it begins in eternity and is completed in eternity (1 Peter 1:1, 2; Ephesians 1:3-14). #Quote by Jonah Books.com

#21. Liberals and leftists have been dismissing inconvenient facts by attacking motives for generations. In the 1930s, '40s, and '50s, Soviet spies and abettors attacked the motives of their accusers because the fact of their guilt was undeniable. In the 1960s, over a thousand psychiatrists who'd never even met Barry Goldwater signed a petition saying the GOP candidate was too mentally unstable to be president. #Quote by Jonah Goldberg

#22. Call me Jonah. My parents did, or nearly did. They called me John. #Quote by Kurt Vonnegut

#23. It is natural for humankind to reject the gospel. #Quote by Jonah Books.com

#24. As a broad generalization, big businesses have no moral objections to being whores. Getting into bed with Uncle Sam is all a question of price, not principle. #Quote by Jonah Goldberg

#25. Jonah McAllister regarded me with cold eyes. Oh, yes. That's her. The lovely Ms.Gin Blanco. The bitch who was giving my boy a hard time.
A hard time? I supposed so, if you thought turning him in to the cops for attempted robbery, breaking a plate full of food in his face, and ultimately stabbing Jake McAllister to death was a hard time. #Quote by Jennifer Estep

#26. Isn't this what I said, Lord, when I was still at home? That is what I tried to forestall by fleeing to Tarshish. I knew that you are a gracious and compassionate God, slow to anger and abounding in love, a God who relents from sending calamity. 3 Now, Lord, take away my life, for it is better for me to die than to live. #Quote by Jonah

#27. The logical upshot of liberalism's hatred of hypocrisy is that it is better for the liar to champion lying, the glutton to advocate gluttony, the adulterer to celebrate adultery, than for someone to preach the right thing if he himself occasionally does the wrong thing. Better to let your failings define you and be happy about it, than to let your ideals define you but then fall short of them, for that opens you up to the charge of hypocrisy. #Quote by Jonah Goldberg

#28. If you write for the critics, only the critics will read you. #Quote by Jonah Goldberg

#29. Advertising also plays a role. Consumers need to know about something before they can buy it. So #Quote by Jonah Berger

#30. The baby's large eyes settled on him, and though this has been one of his happiest nights in his whole life, it made him melancholy. He had read somewhere that babies are instinctively drawn to faces, that they will fixate even on drawings or abstract, facelike shapes, and round objects with markings that might resemble eye-mouth-nose. It was information that struck him as terribly sad, terribly lonely - to imagine the infants of the world scoping the blurry atmosphere above them for faces the way primitive people scrutinized the stars for patterns, the way castaways stare at the moon, the blinking of a satellite. It made him sad to think of the baby gathering information - a mind, a soul, slowly solidifying around these impressions, coming to understand cause and effect, coming out of a blank or fog into reality. Into a reality. The true terror, Jonah thought, the true mystery of life was not that we are all going to die, but that we were all born, that we were all once little babies like this, unknowing and slowly reeling in the world, gathering it loop by loop like a ball of string. The true terror was that we once didn't exist and then, through no fault of our own, we had to. #Quote by Dan Chaon

#31. Even when alternative views are clearly wrong, being exposed to them still expands our creative potential. In a way, the power of dissent is the power of surprise. After hearing someone shout out an errant answer, we work to understand it, which causes us to reassess our initial assumptions and try out new perspectives. "Authentic dissent can be difficult, but it's always invigorating," [Charlan] Nemeth [a professor of psychology at the University of California at Berkeley] says. "It wakes us right up. #Quote by Jonah Lehrer

#32. Anything that can be proven cannot last. #Quote by Jonah Blank

#33. After all, the bible was always talking about miracles. i figured that if Daniel could get out of the lion's den alive and Jonah could come up unharmed from the belly of a whale, then surely ole T.j. could get out of going to prison. #Quote by Mildred D. Taylor

#34. Fascism isn't a libertarian doctrine! It just isn't, never will be and it can't be cast as one. #Quote by Jonah Goldberg

#35. One of the greatest moments of my career was on the road promoting 'Superbad' with Michael Cera and Chris Mintz-Plasse. We were showing the movie at colleges. #Quote by Jonah Hill

#36. There is a presence in what is missing. That presence is our own. #Quote by Jonah Lehrer

#37. The flesh is weak and my frailty is exposed, Oh praise be to God it is by Christ Alone #Quote by Jonah Books.com

#38. Mindless activity can't experience joy. #Quote by Jonah Books.com

#39. You need to cool it some, geek." said Motti. "Why not go to the fridge, open the door, and stand there for a minute? Then grab a beer from inside and bring it to me." Jonah smiled despite himself. "Good of you to think of my welfare like that. #Quote by Stephen Cole

#40. In fact, the messages actually seemed to increase drug use. Kids aged twelve and a half to eighteen who saw the ads were actually more likely to smoke marijuana. Why? Because it made drug use more public. Think about observability and social proof. Before seeing the message, some kids might never have thought about taking drugs. Others might have considered it but have been wary about doing the wrong thing. But anti-drug ads often say two things simultaneously. They say that drugs are bad, but they also say that other people are doing them. And as we've discussed throughout this chapter, the more others seem to be doing something, the more likely people are to think that thing is right or normal and what they should be doing as well. #Quote by Jonah Berger

#41. I learn a lot from every director that I work with. I sit on set and watch them, every one. #Quote by Jonah Hill

#42. The village may have replaced "the state," and it in turn may have replaced the fist with the hug, but an unwanted embrace from which you cannot escape is just a nicer form of tyranny. #Quote by Jonah Goldberg

#43. There are many people for whom hate and rage pay a higher dividend of immediate satisfaction than love. Congenitally aggressive, they soon become adrenaline addicts, deliberately indulging psychically stimulated endocrines. Knowing that on self-assertion always ends by evoking other and hostile self-assertions, they sedulously cultivate their truculence. And, sure enough, very soon they find themselves in the thick of a fight. But a fight is what they most enjoy; for it is while they are fighting that their blood chemistry makes them feel most intensely themselves. "Feeling good", they naturally assume that they *are good. Adrenalin addiction is rationalized as Righteous Indignation and finally, like the prophet Jonah, they are convinced, unshakably, that they do well to be angry. #Quote by Aldous Huxley

#44. There is something scary about letting ourselves go. It means that we will screw up, that we will relinquish the possibility of perfection. It means that we will say things we didn't mean to say and express feelings we can't explain. It means that we will be onstage and not have complete control, that we won't know what we're going to play until we begin, until the bow is drawn across the strings. While this spontaneous method might be frightening, it's also an extremely valuable source of creativity ... the lesson about letting go is that we contain our own creativity. We are so worried about playing the wrong note or saying the wrong thing that we end up with nothing at all. #Quote by Jonah Lehrer

#45. Seated upon the convex mound Of one vast kidney, Jonah prays And sings his canticles and hymns, Making the hollow vault resound God's goodness and mysterious ways, Till the great fish spouts music as he swims. #Quote by Aldous Huxley

#46. There was no intellectual movement in American history called social Darwinism. The people who were supposedly the leaders of the social Darwinist movement never embraced something called social Darwinism. It didn't exist. #Quote by Jonah Goldberg

#47. Socialism preceded Marxism, and socialism has survived Marxism, in part because Marxism was subjected to a real-world test for nearly a century and failed on an epic scale. Soviet revolutionaries did not engage in Fabian incrementalism; they got their country and their empire and their worldwide movement, and they worked their will without opposition. #Quote by Jonah Goldberg

#48. Those who say they dislike dogma, or 'certainty', tend to be liars, hypocrites, or simply wrong. What they really dislike is the dogma of those they disagree with. A society that was certain, certain beyond all certainty, that putting its citizens in death camps was wrong, would never put people in death camps. Such things are only possible when you're open to new ideas. #Quote by Jonah Goldberg

#49. It was like falling off a building and suddenly, bang, you hit the bottom. The first time it happened was on an ordinary day at home. I was taking down some curtains. I took one step, turned around, took another step and then I fell and hit my head hard on the rowing machine. #Quote by Jonah Lomu

#50. Be open to other people's ideas. Don't get arrogant about your ideas. Shoot a lot of options so you're not stuck with just one version of something. #Quote by Jonah Hill

#51. I wasn't asking anything about God," Jonah complained.
"Yeah, you kind of were," JB said. "If there is fate, who else would control it? #Quote by Margaret Peterson Haddix

#52. The key to the city of Florence was about two feet long, and painted a garish gold.
Hamilton was fascinated by it. "Wow! How big is the lock?"
Jonah laughed. "There is no lock, cuz. It's an honorary gig. Back in my crib in LA, I've got a whole shed full of keys from different cities. Want to know the kicker? I can't get at them. The gardener lost the key to the shed. #Quote by Gordon Korman

#53. Progressivism was a sister movement of fascism, and today's liberalism is the daughter of Progressivism. #Quote by Jonah Goldberg

#54. It has been said that when people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate one another. We look to others for information about what is right or good to do in a given situation, and this social proof shapes everything from the products we buy to the candidates we vote for. The phrase 'Monkey see, monkey do' captures more than just our tendency to follow others. If people can't see what others are doing, they can't imitate them. So to get our products and ideas to become popular we need to make them more publicly observable #Quote by Jonah Berger

#55. Good marketers see consumers as complete human beings with all the dimensions real people have. #Quote by Jonah Sachs

#56. Are you a producer or a looter? If diversity were always and everywhere good we would be clamoring for more midgets in the NBA. #Quote by Jonah Goldberg

#57. It annoys me when people who don't know what they're talking about boo the referee. #Quote by Jonah Lomu

#58. If the Great Physician examined your life, what do you think His diagnosis would be concerning your spiritual life? #Quote by Jonah Books.com

#59. One of the things that is counterintuitive about BuzzFeed is that there's not a natural corollary to what we're doing because it isn't possible to distribute content through word-of-mouth in print. #Quote by Jonah Peretti

#60. I'm really proud of 'Moneyball.' To me, it's about feeling pride in a movie I made. I think when I'm an old man I'll be able to show it to my grandkids with pride. That's all I can really go for: making movies to please me. #Quote by Jonah Hill

#61. Americans are very smart about the things they care about, and ignorant about the things they don't. #Quote by Jonah Goldberg

#62. The majority of us watch the world go by, and adapt to what life hands us, Jonah. But you're different. You can change your world. That seems like a wonderful gift, but I also think it's a heavy burden. #Quote by Jason Luke

#63. Someone once noted that a 'gaffe' in Washington is when a politician accidentally tells the truth. #Quote by Jonah Goldberg

#64. Nationalism and socialism as actually lived and applied in the 20th century are the same thing (and in the 18th and 19th century, nationalism was often a force for classical liberalism!). It's all a kind of reactionary tribalism (another "ism" which becomes poisonous quickly as you up the dosage). When you nationalize an industry, you socialize it. When you socialize an industry you nationalize it. Yes, international socialism rejected this formulation. And that's why international socialism failed! People wanted to be Germans or Russians or Italians and they wanted to be socialists. Even the Soviet Union embraced national-socialism (socialism in one country) because that 'workers of the world unite' crap wouldn't fly. After Stalin, no Communist or socialist regime failed to exploit nationalism to one extent or another. #Quote by Jonah Goldberg

#65. I'd like to know why sociologists can't decide whether movie sex and violence has any effect on children, but there's a universal consensus that even a glimpse of a Camel will force children to become lifelong smokers. #Quote by Jonah Goldberg

#66. Why should men in the name of religion try to harmonize the contradictions that exist between Nature and a book? Why should philosophers be denounced for placing more reliance upon what they know than upon what they have been told? If there is a God, it is reasonably certain that he made the world, but it is by no means certain that he is the author of the bible. Why then should we not place greater confidence in Nature than in a book? And even if this God made not only the world but the book besides, it does not follow that the book is the best part of Creation, and the only part that we will be eternally punished for denying. It seems to me that it is quite as important to know something of the solar system, something of the physical history of this globe, as it is to know the adventures of Jonah or the diet of Ezekiel. (...) It seems to me that a belief in the great truths of science are fully as essential to salvation, as the creed of any church. We are taught that a man may be perfectly acceptable to God even if he denies the rotundity of the earth,(...) and yet, for failing to believe in the „scheme of salvation" another may be eternally lost. #Quote by Robert G. Ingersoll

#67. If the Bible had said that Jonah swallowed the whale, I would believe it. #Quote by William Jennings Bryan

#68. Prayer is meant to happen everywhere. After all, Daniel prayed in the lion's den. Jonah prayed in a fish's stomach. Elijah prayed in the desert. And Jesus prayed on the cross. #Quote by Jared Brock

#69. Professionally, I feel like I won the lottery and I am the luckiest person in the entire world. #Quote by Jonah Hill

#70. Just my fingers, Blondie. I gotta get in here. Figure if it's just my

fingers, it'll be okay. I think I can get in deeper than with my tongue this way."

"Love your tongue."

Zev chuckled. "Yeah, I know. I think the people in the rooms next to ours know too."

Jonah laughed, enjoying the fact that they could talk and tease while they loved on each other. #Quote by Cardeno C.

#71. The trick isn't so much creating the right thing; the trick is finding the right networks. #Quote by Jonah Peretti

#72. I don't think twice about picking up my dog's poop, but if another dog's poop is next to it, I think, 'Eww, dog poop! #Quote by Jonah Goldberg

#73. That is the point of the night sea journey - to be born into yourself. There, you are in the amniotic fluid, in an alchemical substance once again. You are journeying toward your own life. You are preparing for your fate. The promise is exhilarating, but the dangers are extreme. You have to avoid being just one of the crowd and instead take the chance of being born an individual. Jonah #Quote by Thomas Moore

#74. I just like to act and write and produce. To me, making movies is the ultimate goal. #Quote by Jonah Hill

#75. We're not going to get the jack-booted thugs stomping on a human face that you get in '1984' but we might get the 'Brave New World' where the biggest problem there is how to deal with the fact that everyone is so happy ... [W]hat we're going to get is a nanny-type of fascism, if we get one at all ... [S]imply because the nanny-state wants to hug you doesn't mean it's not tyrannical if you don't want to be hugged. #Quote by Jonah Goldberg

#76. Distance and difference are the secret tonic of creativity. When we get home, home is still the same. But something in our mind has been changed, and that changes everything. #Quote by Jonah Lehrer

#77. Jonah can't see how Assyria could serve any useful purpose. How could this commission better Israel? Jonah might even fear that God will reverse His judgment against Nineveh. If that 'unchanging God' changes His mind about Nineveh's destruction, then Jonah's personal religion won't make sense. (Nu 23:19) The truth is, Jonah is not as overwhelmed by his new assignment as he is by his own small mindedness. (page 5) #Quote by Michael Ben Zehabe

#78. Jonah is only available right now exclusively on Amazon Kindle. Jonah will be available on Kobo and Nook on July 10, 2014 #Quote by Bob Bannon

#79. I've taped a list to my bathroom mirror. It's my Most Violated List ... Anger. I gave the finger to an ATM. You see, the ATM charged me a $1.75 fee for withdrawl. A dollar seventy-five? That's bananas. So I flipped off the screen. As Julie tells me, when you start making rude gestures to inanimate objects, it's time to work on your anger issues. Mine is not the shouting, pulsing-vein-in-the forehead rage. Like my dad, I rarely raise my voice. My anger problem is more one of long-lasting resentment. It's a heap of real or perceived slights that eventually build up into a mountain of bitterness ... get some perspective ... I ask myself the question God asked Jonah. 'Do you do well to be angry?' ... The world will not end ... Mute your petty resentment. #Quote by A. J. Jacobs

#80. Jesus has the authority and power to re-create not just refurbish us. #Quote by Jonah Books.com

#81. I grew up in the '80s in L.A., so Ice Cube and Magic Johnson are my heroes. #Quote by Jonah Hill

#82. We need to be willing to risk embarrassment, ask silly questions, surround ourselves with people who don't know what we're talking about. We need to leave behind the safety of our expertise. #Quote by Jonah Lehrer

#83. In particular, Vaillant says, it is the experience of loving and being loved that most closely predicts how we react to the hardships of life; human attachments are the ultimate source of resilience. "The seventy-five years and twenty million dollars expended on the Grant Study points, at least to me, to a straightforward five-word conclusion," Vaillant writes. "'Happiness equals love. Full stop. #Quote by Jonah Lehrer

#84. People on Twitter can follow tech if they're interested in tech, or business if they're interested in business, or they can follow celebrities that they're fans of. #Quote by Jonah Peretti

#85. I always say I want to eventually shift my career to directing and writing. #Quote by Jonah Hill

#86. People don't think in terms of information. They think in terms of narratives. But while people focus on the story itself, information comes along for the ride. #Quote by Jonah Berger

#87. The mere fact that something isn't readily available can make people value it more and tell others to capitalize on the social currency of knowing about it or having it. #Quote by Jonah Berger

#88. Why is it fair game to question conservatives' love or loyalty to children or to their fellow man, but beyond the pale to question liberals' love of country? #Quote by Jonah Goldberg

#89. The GOP needs to figure out a way to become more appealing to new constituencies. #Quote by Jonah Goldberg

#90. 'Funny People' is my favorite performance of myself to date. Even though it's a comedy and there are serious moments, I really felt like Leo felt like a real person. It didn't feel like I was playing myself. Whether it's a comedy or drama, I just try to make it as realistic as possible. #Quote by Jonah Hill

#91. Live your life as if it was written by Aaron Sorkin #Quote by Jonah Bergan

#92. The story of the whale swallowing Jonah, though a whale is large enough to do it, borders greatly on the marvelous; but it would have approached nearer to the idea of a miracle if Jonah had swallowed the whale. #Quote by Thomas Paine

#93. The benefit of such horizontal interactions - people sharing knowledge across fields - is that it encourages conceptual blending, which is an extremely important part of the insight process. #Quote by Jonah Lehrer

#94. Your brand is a story unfolding across all customer touch points. #Quote by Jonah Sachs

#95. I went to a boarding school with a strong Maori tradition, where we were taught all about the haka. #Quote by Jonah Lomu

#96. Nobody talks about boring companies, boring products, or boring ads," argues one prominent word-of-mouth advocate. #Quote by Jonah Berger

#97. Satan vanishes as quickly as his name appears, but Jesus emerges as the obedient Son. #Quote by Jonah Books.com

#98. Those who have received mercy are destined to extend mercy #Quote by Jonah Books.com

#99. When you create something you're free to explore it however you want to do it. #Quote by Jonah Hill

#100. Listen!"
"Ludwig was mad, bro
But he was also bad, bro,
Was his own 'Iliad,' bro ... "
"Jonah!" Amy breathed. #Quote by Jude Watson

#101. 'You ... you're
'
'A virgin?' Jonah's voice cracked in the middle of that hated word.
'Holy fucking merciful Christ giving Peter a blow job.'
'Jesus,' Jonah breathed.
'Came first?' Amelia said, popping out of the ladies' room with impeccable timing. 'God, Ethan, that was the best blasphemy ever!' #Quote by Amy Lane

#102. Keep in mind that Eric Alterman is media critic for The Nation-a hysterically left-wing magazine dedicated to the proposition that corporate America, U.S. foreign policy and the Republican Party are criminal, racist or both. The simple reality is that, for him, the Democratic Party is far too conservative. #Quote by Jonah Goldberg

#103. Trump argues for his own brand of strong-government conservatism grounded not in, say, Bush's faith in God, but in Donald Trump's faith in himself. He has never shown more than the briefest nod to traditional conservative concerns about limited government, personal liberty or the Constitution. ... If Trump is successful, liberty-oriented conservatism will be replaced by so-called common sense statism. #Quote by Jonah Goldberg

#104. The advantage of knowing where insights come from is that it can make it easier to generate insights in the first place. When we're struggling with seemingly impossible problems, it's important to find time to unwind, to eavesdrop on all those remote associations coming from the right hemisphere. Instead of drinking another cup of coffee, indulge in a little daydreaming. Rather than relentlessly focusing, take a warm shower, or play some Ping-Pong, or walk on the beach. #Quote by Jonah Lehrer

#105. In the valley of unknown, in my moments of uncertainty, the clutter flees and silence allows me to hear the voice of the LORD #Quote by Jonah Books.com

#106. Knowledge can be a subtle curse. When we learn about the world, we also learn all the reasons why the world cannot be changed. We get used to our failures and imperfections. We become numb to the possibilities of something new #Quote by Jonah Lehrer

#107. Facts are mere speed bumps on the road to lefty moral outrage. #Quote by Jonah Goldberg

#108. How's everything going, Jonah? This question is enough to piss me off. I hate counselors ... I have Naomi. I don't need this crap. #Quote by Hannah Moskowitz

#109. I have crooked toes from wearing boots that didn't fit me because that's all I could afford as a kid. #Quote by Jonah Lomu

#110. Jonah has that strange look on his face. He must have another of Maryrose's memories. Probably that she once sang a lullaby on a windy day. OR SOMETHING ELSE TOTALLY USELESS. "Is it about canoeing?" I ask, trying to be positive. He scratches his head. "It is! Maryrose was good at canoeing!" Oh! Yay! "Did she ever stop a boat?" "Yes!" he exclaims. Great! "How?" I ask. "With paddles!" he says. Argh. "Thanks for nothing, Maryrose's memories!" I yell. "We have to stop this canoe! #Quote by Sarah Mlynowski

#111. It was in the 1960s that the left convinced itself that there is something fascistic about patriotism and something perversely "patriotic" about running down America. Anti-Americanism - a stand-in for hatred of Western civilization - became the stuff of sophisticates and intellectuals as never before. Flag burners became the truest "patriots" because dissent - not just from partisan politics, but the American project itself - became the highest virtue. #Quote by Jonah Goldberg

#112. Liam grabbed a pen out of the cup Jonah had sitting on the counter and tore off an edge of one of the paper grocery sacks. As he scribbled down his number, Jonah remembered that Stephanie had often asked him why on earth he kept a cup of pens on his kitchen counter.
"So hot guys can give me their numbers when they deliver my groceries". He snickered to himself. #Quote by M. Jules Aedin

#113. I think as - all in all, it's better to have a cool president than a not cool president. #Quote by Jonah Goldberg

#114. I love it, man; I'm 23 years old and I'm lucky enough to write movies as a job! I just feel really blessed and can't believe it's happening. #Quote by Jonah Hill

#115. Rachel's the first one to speak. "So - he told you."
"Told me what?"
"Come on, Hal. What's changed since yesterday?" Rachel sneaks one arm out of her jacket cocoon to give Hallelujah a soft punch in the shoulder. "I may not be at my best right now, but I'm not blind." She pauses. "Or deaf."
Hallelujah feels her face get hot. "Oh. What did you hear?"
"Bits and pieces. I was really out of it last night, after . . . whatever that was. After almost freezing to death." Rachel shudders. "I have to say, it was totally obvious from the get-go that Jonah liked you."
"It was?" Hallelujah is still surprised. She still doesn't quite believe it.
"Um, yeah. Or did you think he's out here for me?" Rachel says slowly, as if to a child, "You followed me. He followed you. #Quote by Kathryn Holmes

#116. Jonah looks at me so admiringly, and my heart bounces like a pinball from my stomach to my throat to either side of my rib cage. #Quote by Emery Lord

#117. On Tuesday, the so-called Islamic State released a slickly produced video showing a Jordanian pilot being burned alive in a steel cage. On Wednesday, the United Nations issued a report detailing various 'mass executions of boys, as well as reports of beheadings, crucifixions of children, and burying children alive' at the hands of the Islamic State. #Quote by Jonah Goldberg

#118. The attitude of invincibility flees at the first encounter of injury, disease, or loss of a loved one. #Quote by Jonah Books.com

#119. Jonah shifts to lean back a little farther, moaning as he does. "Holy heck, my leg hurts," he says, still with that strained, forced lightness.
Again, Hallelujah mimics his tone. "'Holy heck'? That's cutting it close."
"I have a gash in my leg the size of the Mississippi. I can say whatever I want. #Quote by Kathryn Holmes

#120. Unless you experience the unpleasant symptoms of being wrong, your brain will never revise its models. Before your neurons can succeed, they must repeatedly fail. There are no shortcuts for this painstaking process. #Quote by Jonah Lehrer

#121. The next night he asked Jonah if he could take $9.49 out of Jonah's secret stash that only Danny and his mum and Jack knew about. Jonah kept it in his sock drawer next to a photograph of Jonah and a girl with sad eyes, taken in one of those railway station photo booths. #Quote by Melina Marchetta

#122. If I wanted to see Jonah Hill masturbate at a pool party, I'd go to one of Jonah Hill's pool parties. #Quote by Amy Poehler

#123. All this stuff is so mind-blowing to me that I get to do in my life. Throwing the first pitch out at the White Sox game on a random Wednesday? Like who am I? How did I get this life? I'm glad I'm not jaded, and little kids are the least jaded people in the entire world, so it's fun to be around people that still find wonder in how cool things are. #Quote by Jonah Hill

#124. I love you," I said. "God, I never thought this would happen to me."
"But it did," she whispered. "It happened and all we can do now is take care of each other. Live in the little moments, right? Just like we promised. The little moments. We have so many. Thousands upon thousands. #Quote by Emma Scott

#125. I've always fixated on the things I want in my life--paint palettes and sumptuous fabrics and star-flecked skies and dancing on my tiptoes and the smell of jasmine. But I usually imagine myself alone or falling in love with all kinds of different people. These days, I've started to daydream of the permanent relationships I want to have. Friends who stay in my life forever. People who I trust to love me even if I'm wobbling--the way I trust Jonah. And if that's what I want, then I have scorched Earth to till and replant. I have a Japanese maple seedling, and I have seen how beautiful a rooted life can be. But I have miles to go before I decide where to plant us. #Quote by Emery Lord

#126. The Bible frequently uses symmetries and inversions. By such comparisons (parallels and contrasts) the unique aspects of reality begin to emerge. Comparing two objects makes their differences increasingly apparent. Only then can we ask, "Why does this one have that, and the other does not?" For instance: The phrase, "and it was
6
good" is present on all the days of creation - except the second day. Why? Because, "two" contains potential badness, to a Hebrew. We could not have discovered that insight, unless we contrasted God's description of the creative days. #Quote by Michael Ben Zehabe

#127. God has provided you a stage and a podium to make him known. #Quote by Jonah Books.com

#128. The Mars Polar Lander cost the average American the price of half a cheeseburger. A human lander would cost the average American more
perhaps even ten cheeseburgers! So be it. That is no great sacrifice. #Quote by Jonah Goldberg

#129. Jonah looks at me like I'm absolutely off my rocker. Or maybe it's a look of amazement, like I'm a whole galaxy, glittering and vast and unchartered. #Quote by Emery Lord

#130. In fact, most of us see perseverance as a distinctly uncreative approach, the sort of strategy that people with mediocre ideas are forced to rely on. #Quote by Jonah Lehrer

#131. He's looking at me like he was in that picture. Full of heartache. Or maybe this is what Jonah looks like when he loves something so much it hurts. #Quote by Colleen Hoover

#132. most beautiful emotion we can experience is the mysterious. It is the power of all true art and science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead. #Quote by Jonah Berger

#133. I can't stand it. I have my circle and that's it. I don't want to tell people outside the circle. I don't want them to have to find out. I don't let anyone in…"
"And yet," I said, gulping air, getting a hold of myself. "Here I am."
"Here you are…" He said, his eyes roaming my face. "Believe me, I didn't want to let you in. But it was almost as if…"
"What?" I whispered.
"As if I didn't have a choice," He said. "I tried to keep [my] walls up, keep to my routine… But you got in anyway." He gently swiped a tear from my chin. "You feel it too, right?"
I nodded. "Yes. #Quote by Emma Scott

#134. And it was true that if you categorized people by which Disney character they were, then Jonah would always be Bambi. Motherless, graceful, unobtrusive. Ethan
Jiminy Cricket, the annoying little conscience ... just look at Ash. In the Disney hierarchy she was Snow White ... He paused to wonder which Disney character Jules was, and realized that Disney did not make women or girls or woodland animals that were like her. #Quote by Meg Wolitzer

#135. In the comedies I've been lucky enough to be a part of a world like Judd Apatow's, where I believe comedy comes from real people. #Quote by Jonah Hill

#136. Virality isn't born, it's made. #Quote by Jonah Berger

#137. I thought about dying whenever I got bad news about other people. #Quote by Jonah Lomu

#138. If you're going to keep the music in you, Jonah, you've got to play a little bit every day purely for pleasure. Otherwise, you'll lose the joy of it, and if you lose the joy, you won't sound good to those who know piano - or to yourself. #Quote by Dean Koontz

#139. Hollywood's martyr-mythology leaves out the fact that the famed Hollywood Ten, for example, were in fact members of the Communist Party, which advocated the violent overthrow of the U.S. government in violation of the Smith Act and which took orders directly from Moscow. #Quote by Jonah Goldberg

#140. I feel sorry for anyone who is in a place where he feels strange and stupid. #Quote by Lois Lowry

#141. If our DNA has a literary equivalent, it's Finnegan's Wake. #Quote by Jonah Lehrer

#142. Every encounter you have is a Divine encounter ordained by God. #Quote by Jonah Books.com

#143. When I first met the world, basically, or introduced myself to people, I was in 'Superbad,' and I feel the same way I felt promoting 'Superbad' in an underdog style that I feel promoting 'Moneyball.' #Quote by Jonah Hill

#144. I kissed Jonah Fletcher with all of my heart, and with every piece of my soul that would love him forever. #Quote by Emma Scott

#145. Word of mouth is the primary factor behind 20 percent to 50 percent of all purchasing decisions. #Quote by Jonah Berger

#146. Capitalism is unnatural.
Democracy is unnatural.
Human rights are unnatural.
The world we live in today is unnatural, and we stumble into it more or less by accident.
The natural state of mankind is grinding poverty punctuated by horrific violence terminating with an early death.
It was like this for a very very long time. #Quote by Jonah Goldberg

#147. Oh!" Karimah says. "It's one minute to midnight. You and Jonah and Prince had better hurry to the room of mirrors. One, two - #Quote by Sarah Mlynowski

#148. For those who think religious people live in a constant state of fear and quaking, compare Ps 111:10 to Ps 112:7. There, you will find that the person who fears God will not fear anyone, or anything else. This is not living in fear. By choosing one fear, they are liberated from the many fears. #Quote by Michael Ben Zehabe

#149. Social distinctions tend to matter only at your own level and above. #Quote by Jonah Goldberg

#150. Modernity has come to=syncretism #Quote by Jonah Books.com

#151. 'Allen Gregory' came about because we wanted an animated show and we were just tossing around some ideas about me playing a 7-year-old. We thought that would be cool, because we couldn't do that in real life. #Quote by Jonah Hill

#152. His father's made us paint half this town and if we stick around any longer he'll make us paint the rest of it. -Jonah Griggs #Quote by Melina Marchetta

#153. A creative idea plus a fresh network is the best way to go from zero to millions. #Quote by Jonah Peretti

#154. A great swindle of our time is the assumption that science has made religion obsolete. All science has damaged is the story of Adam and Eve and the story of Jonah and the Whale. Everything else holds up pretty well, particularly lessons about fairness and gentleness. People who find those lessons irrelevant in the twentieth century are simply using science as an excuse for greed and harshness. Science has nothing to do with it, friends. #Quote by Kurt Vonnegut

#155. He liked being the bigger man of the two, even though it wasn't by much, he liked the way his solid rugby player's build matched and countered Jonah's athletic strength. But there was something about Jonah's body hair, that incontrovertible evidence of his masculinity, that made Ben feel…not that he was less manly, precisely, but that Jonah was more so. #Quote by K.J. Charles

#156. Why do some products, ideas, and behaviors succeed when others fail? #Quote by Jonah Berger

#157. I love my parents. But I'm almost 28 and it's not fun to be asked, 'What are you doing today? What do you want for dinner? When are you going to be home?' It just makes you feel like a kid. It's this juxtaposition of feeling annoyed and really lucky to have people who love you so much. #Quote by Jonah Hill

#158. [The Devil] "This legend is about paradise. There was, they say, a certain thinker and philospher here on your earth, who 'rejected all--laws, conscience faith, and, above all, the future life. He died and thought he'd go straight into darkness and death, but no--there was the future life before him. He was amazed and indignant. 'This,' he said, 'goes against my convictions.' So for that he was sentenced...I mean, you see, I beg your pardon, I'm repeating what I heard, it's just a legend...you see, he was sentenced to walk in darkness a quadrillion kilometers (we also use kilometers now), and once he finished that quadrillion, the doors of paradise would be open to him and he would be forgiven everything...Well, so this man sentenced to the quadrillion stood a while, looked, and then lay down across the road: 'I dont want to go, I refuse to go on principle!' Take the soul of an enlightened Russian atheist and mix it with the soul of the prophet Jonah, who sulked in the belly of a whale for three days and three nights--you'll get the character of this thinker lying in the road...He lay there for nearly a thousand years, and then got up and started walking."
"What an ass!" Ivan exclaimed, bursting into nervous laughter, still apparently trying hard to figure something out. "isn't it all the same whether he lies there forever or walks a quadrillion kilometers? It must be about a billion years' walk!"
"Much more, even. If we had a pencil and paper, we could work it out. #Quote by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#159. If we say that anyone who 'moralizes' must be perfect morally then we are in effect saying no one can moralize. #Quote by Jonah Goldberg

#160. Honestly, I think we ought to try. I mean, if it's Alphego's decision and Alphego is really what they call God here … then I really don't want to be running from something that He wants me to do. I mean, Jonah tried running and only ended up in the belly of a fish, and then he still had to do what God had asked him to do in the first place. I don't know about you, but I personally don't want to risk being eaten by a fish. #Quote by Kendra E. Ardnek

#161. When we venture beyond the edge of our knowledge, all we have is art. #Quote by Jonah Lehrer

#162. Perhaps it was the word "God" that was inviting to me, a word I thought I knew too much about. The one who had tortured Job, who had Abraham lift the ax to his son, who, disguised as a whale, had swallowed Jonah. I know now that the name does not refer to any deity, but means simply to call out and pray, to summon. #Quote by Linda Hogan

#163. The world has a lot to offer. There's a lot to explore. I like to take advantage of that. #Quote by Chloe Neill

#164. If this letter system works, it should be reproducible and consistent. If this letter system works, it should be demonstrated in biblical narrative - with consistency. It has. It does. It will. For instance: Daniel interpreted the handwriting on the Babylonian wall. (Da 5:1-31) The question has always been, "What method would produce the same interpretation?"
If you will pull out your Strong's Concordance and translate those same four words, you won't get the same results that Daniel got. Was Daniel using a different method than modern Christians? Yes, obviously. #Quote by Michael Ben Zehabe

#165. Dissent is morally neutral. You can correctly call yourself a dissident because you like to kick puppies, but at the end of the day, you're just a jerk who likes to kick puppies. #Quote by Jonah Goldberg

#166. How does Jonah Griggs get to be a ten? He sits on a train with me when we're fourteen and he weeps, tearing at his hair, bashing his head with the palm of his hand, self-hatred pouring out of him like blood from a gut wound in a war movie, and for the first time in my whole life I have a purpose. I am the holder of the grief and pain and guilt and passion of Jonah Griggs and as we sit huddled on the floor of the carriage, he allows me to hold him. While his body still shakes from the convulsions, he takes hold of my hands and links my fingers with his and I feel someone else's pain for the first time I can remember. #Quote by Melina Marchetta

#167. Mormons know that it's not enough to practise your religion - you also have to spread your religion. #Quote by Jonah Peretti

#168. I looked at Jonah. "I'm still learning who you are. And you're my partner, so I appreciate that you're willing to take a punch for me." I walked to Ethan and glared up at him. "But you know better than this, Ethan Sullivan. #Quote by Chloe Neill

#169. You guys are related to Jonah Wizard?" Jake asked, his lip curled disdainfully. "And the other guy," Dan grumbled. "Vin Diesel's stunt double. #Quote by Peter Lerangis

#170. I was diagnosed with the illness right before the 1995 World Cup. #Quote by Jonah Lomu

#171. The head nerd of the Cadets is my partner and when it's over he asks me for my number. I'm very flattered and he looks a bit crestfallen when I say no.
"It's because they don't have coverage out here," Griggs tells him.
"No," I say, looking up at Griggs. "It's actually because my heart belongs to someone else." And if I could bottle the look on his face, I'd keep it by my bedside for the rest of my life. #Quote by Melina Marchetta

#172. The great romance of your youth is your best friend at that age. #Quote by Jonah Hill

#173. Top of mind means tip of tongue. #Quote by Jonah Berger

#174. Allowing the failures of others to control your life is to allow them to control your future. #Quote by Jonah Books.com

#175. If the bible myth of Jonah in the whale and the Mother Goose myth of Jack and the Beanstalk were switched at birth so that Jack in the Beanstalk were in the bible, do you think any child would notice? #Quote by Bill Maher

#176. Hamilton dabbed a tissue at the cut under his eye. "Except for the time I met the Great Khali, that was the coolest thing I've ever done!"
The foursome, only slightly the worse for wear, stood on the tarmac of the small airfield outside Milan, transferring their luggage from the limo to Jonah's jet for the flight back to Florence.
"You didn't do anything, yo," Jonah seethed. "It was done to all of us by the freak show with the nerve to complain that the family branches are too violent! #Quote by Gordon Korman

#177. Wow,' says Jonah, leaning his head on an elbow. Do you say 'Thanks' when someone says 'Wow'? I don't know so I play safe and ask 'Do you ever think you might be a different species of human, knitted out of raw DNA in a laboratory like in The Island of Doctor Moreau, and then turned loose to see if you can pass yourself off as normal or not?' Gentle #Quote by David Mitchell

#178. I met Jonah Lomu. I never knew how huge he was. I felt like a peasant in a Godzilla movie. 'Quickly! Tell the other villagers! We go now!' #Quote by Robin Williams

#179. The mainstream perception that conservatives are close-minded and dogmatic while liberals are open-minded and free-thinking has it almost exactly backward. Liberal dogma is settled: The government should do good, where it can, whenever it can. That is President Obama's idea of pragmatism and bipartisanship: He's open to all ideas, from either side of the aisle, about how best to expand government and get the state more involved in our lives. #Quote by Jonah Goldberg

#180. You're coming to Buzzfeed's homepage not for yourself, but to find something to share with someone else. #Quote by Jonah

#181. I mean, being shot in slow motion doing cocaine by Martin Scorsese is, like, maybe every actor's dream. Nothing will compare to it. Except maybe having kids. #Quote by Jonah Hill

#182. The banner waved by the religious leaders reads; do not upset my world! Jesus is one who comes to call an about face and reverse the curse. Jesus call is not half way or three quarters; it is a complete and utter abandonment to his Lordship. Will the Pharisees and Herodians submit to Jesus Lordship? #Quote by Jonah Books.com

#183. When you treat reprehensible and ludicrous arguments with respect you have elevated the reprehensible and made the ludicrous a bit more reasonable. Having a serious argument with a Nazi makes the horror of the Holocaust a debatable point. Don't wrestle in the mud with pigs. You get dirty and the pig likes it. #Quote by Jonah Goldberg

#184. In crude Marxist terms, liberals have a theory of infallible government that is constantly at war with the reality of life. #Quote by Jonah Goldberg

#185. Open the bag, open the bag, open the bag!" he says, bounding through the thigh-deep water. She does. He dumps the second fish inside, and she zips it closed.
"I didn't know you could do that!" Hallelujah calls out as Jonah splashes away from her again.
"Neither did I!" He lunges sideways with a loud whoop, misses his footing, and sits down in the water. He's up again in a second, shaking himself off like a dog. "But I'm not going to stop until the fish get smart enough to figure out what I'm doing and - " Lunge. Splash. Up. Shake. " - run away!"
"Run?"
"Whatever! #Quote by Kathryn Holmes

#186. (J)ust to clarify: If you go into every situation saying there's absolutely nothing worth fighting over, you will inevitably end up on a cot sleeping next to a guy named Tiny, bringing him breakfast in his cell every morning, and spending your afternoons ironing his boxers. Or, in the case of the French, you might spend your afternoon rounding up Jews to send to Germany, but you get the point. #Quote by Jonah Goldberg

#187. And God does have a personality. He can't hide from us. His personality shines through every Hebrew letter, on every page. Sometimes we forget that God is a person
not a fleshly person, but a person nonetheless. (page iii) #Quote by Michael Ben Zehabe

#188. Sometimes what happens I think is that actors finish a movie and they go, oh my god, I'm never going to work again, even big huge actors, and so they'll take something thinking that something else will never come along. But for me, I freak out - because I'm a bit of a workaholic - the second I finish a movie going oh my god, what am I going to do, but I can start writing the next day so it doesn't force me to make a bad choice acting-wise. #Quote by Jonah Hill

#189. BuzzFeed started as a lab with a small team where we would play with ideas. #Quote by Jonah Peretti

#190. I like vengeance as much as the next guy, if the next guy likes vengeance a whole lot ... #Quote by Jonah Goldberg

#191. When you go out to make something, you want it to be great. You need to put a bubble around that, so no one can get into the force field and change what you're setting out to make. That's all us being producers is doing, is allowing our power to protect the integrity of what you're doing. #Quote by Jonah Hill

#192. Why does it matter if particular thoughts or ideas are top of mind? Because accessible thoughts and ideas lead to action. #Quote by Jonah Berger

#193. It's always better to shock people and change people's expectations than to give them exactly what they think you can do. It's not unexpected for me to be in a comedy film anymore; I'm no longer the underdog in that world. Not that I'm great or good at it or anything, it's just that I've done a bunch of them, so you're not shocked. #Quote by Jonah Hill

#194. Capitalism is the greatest system ever created for alleviating general human misery, and yet it breeds ingratitude. #Quote by Jonah Goldberg

#195. The nature of a letter can also be revealed within its numeric value. All letters and numbers behave in a certain but recognizable way, from which we can deduce its nature. The number two is the only even prime. There is an inherent mathematical dilemma with, "one." No matter how many times you multiply it, by itself, you still can't get past "one" (1 x 1 x 1 x 1 = 1). So, how does "one" move beyond itself? How does the same, produce the different?
Mathematically, "one" is forced to divide itself and work from that duality. Therein, hides the divine puzzle of bet (b). To become "two," the second must revolt from wholeness - a separation. Yet, the second could not have existed without the benefit of the original wholeness. Also, the first wanted the second to exist, but the first doesn't know what the second will become. Again, two contains potential badness, to a Hebrew. (Ge 25:24) #Quote by Michael Ben Zehabe

#196. I just want you to know that it makes me feel like shit to do this." "And Jonah paused," Michael told me. "And then he said to me, no joke, he said, 'You know, I really don't care how you feel.'" Michael shook his head. "It was icy. #Quote by Jon Ronson

#197. It wasn't like, 'I'ma lose weight and start doing dramas.' I wanted to be healthier, and that was the impetus for wanting to lose weight - it's just about being healthy and feeling good. #Quote by Jonah Hill

#198. Art warps preconceived notions like light-speed warps time #Quote by Adam Jonah

#199. He kissed me as if I were something delicate and precious, something he cherished and held with reverence. "My first kiss. This is my first real kiss. #Quote by Emma Scott

#200. I'll be selling tickets for my next tour exclusively through Jonah Lehrer. Make sure to pay cash. #Quote by Bob Dylan