Home / Quotes / Quote by Jessamyn West

Quote by Jessamyn West

“You make what seems a simple choice: choose a man or a job or a neighborhood- and what you have chosen is not a man or a job or a neighborhood, but a life.”

Quote by Jessamyn West

Author

Jessamyn West was an American writer born on July 18, 1902, and died on February 23, 1984. Known for her profound portrayal of rural life in the American Southwest, West's works are characterized by humor and satirical insights into character and social change. more

You May Also Like

“Life's more amusing than we thought.”

Amusing Funny Life

Book:Rhymes à la Mode

Source: Rhymes à la Mode

“Where will our country find leaders with integrity, courage, strength-all the family values-in ten, twenty, or thirty years? The answer is that you are teaching them, loving them, and raising them right now.”

Years Country Values Answers Leader Teaching Integrity Right Now Ten Twenties Parenting Our Country Thirty Thirty Years Family Values Courage Strength

Author:Barbara Bush

“[J]udges, therefore, should be always men of learning and experience in the laws, of exemplary morals, great patience, calmness, coolness, and attention. Their minds should not be distracted with jarring interests; they should not be dependent upon any man, or body of men.”

Men Should Mind Character Body Law Interest Attention Moral Dependent Distracted Calmness Exemplary Coolness Great Patience

Book:The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations

Source: The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations

“A single assembly is liable to all the vices, follies, and frailties of an individual; subject to fits of humor, starts of passion, flights of enthusiasm, partialities, or prejudice, and consequently productive of hasty results and absurd judgments. And all these errors ought to be corrected and defects supplied by some controlling power.”

Source: The Political Writings of John Adams: Representative Selections

“A single assembly is apt to grow ambitious, and after a time will not hesitate to vote itself perpetual. This was one fault of the Long Parliament; but more remarkably of Holland, whose assembly first voted themselves from annual to septennial, then for life, and after a course of years, that all vacancies happening by death or otherwise, should be filled by themselves, without any application to constituents at all.”

Source: The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations

“The idea of taking a song, envisioning the overall sound in my head and then bringing the arrangement to life in the studio...well, that gives me satisfaction like nothing else.”

Giving Writing Wells Persons Has Beens Ideas States Song Sound Exercise Give Me Satisfaction Studios Songwriting Arrangements Nurture Masterpiece Writing Songs Envisioning

Author:Brian Wilson

“The deliberate union of so great and various a people in such a place, is without all partiality or prejudice, if not the greatest exertion of human understanding, the greatest single effort of national deliberation that the world has ever seen.”

People Ifs World Humans Understanding Effort Prejudice Unions Various Deliberate Exertion Deliberation Partiality Constitutional Convention

Book:The Works of John Adams Vol. 6: Defence of the Constitution IV, Discourses on Davila

Source: The Works of John Adams Vol. 6: Defence of the Constitution IV, Discourses on Davila

“One good thing about music, when it hits-you feel no pain. ... My music fights against the system that teaches to live and die. ... Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen. ... My music will go on forever. Maybe it's a fool say that, but when me know facts me can say facts. My music will go on forever.”

Knows Feels Facts Pain Dies Fighting Teach Forever Fool Goes On Speech Good Things Carrie Songwriting Free Speech Reggae No Pain Reggae Music Jamaican Music

Author:Bob Marley

“I will insist the Hebrews have [contributed] more to civilize men than any other nation. If I was an atheist and believed in blind eternal fate, I should still believe that fate had ordained the Jews to be the most essential instrument for civilizing the nations. They are the most glorious nation that ever inhabited this Earth. The Romans and their empire were but a bubble in comparison to the Jews. They have given religion to three-quarters of the globe and have influenced the affairs of mankind more and more happily than any other nation, ancient or modern.”

“[D]emocracy will soon degenerate into an anarchy, such an anarchy that every man will do what is right in his own eyes and no man's life or property or reputation or liberty will be secure, and every one of these will soon mould itself into a system of subordination of all the moral virtues and intellectual abilities, all the powers of wealth, beauty, wit and science, to the wanton pleasures, the capricious will, and the execrable cruelty of one or a very few.”