Jonathan Scott Quotes

Chaos is the first condition. Order is the first law. Continuity is the first reflection. Quietude is the first happiness.

Where there is peace, there cannot be chaos; the two cannot coexist at the same time.

I wanted to get that sense of peace and even boredom that comes with long familiarity.

They shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree, and none shall make them afraid.

Peace is the first condition, without which nothing else can be stable.

Peace is liberty in tranquillity.

Our peace shall stand as firm as rocky mountains.

If we could make our house a home, and then make it a sanctuary, I think we could truly find paradise on Earth.

I like the idea of being warm and secure. That's what home should be. That you have a sense of warmth, security, love, and you love the things around you and surround yourself with beauty.

The greatest problem all around the world today, whether in America, Japan, China Russia, India or anywhere else in the world, is that people are not in peace. People want peace.

I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death... I think... peace and tranquillity will return again.

I like my world to be calm.

I'm quite calm when all is well.

I learned how important it is to have a home that's in order - that's peaceful.

Home is like my detox: it's what keeps me grounded.

The only antidote to chaos is peace itself.

Peace the offspring is of Power.

They say they seek security and quiet, the condition they call peace. Even as they speak they create the seeds of turmoil and violence.

This is the true nature of home - it is the place of Peace; the shelter, not only from all injury, but from all terror, doubt, and division.

A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.

I'm happy that I have my family, and I'm happy that I had Virginia, where I grew up, to retreat to any time I felt overwhelmed. Whenever there were times when I felt like the rug was being pulled out from under me and I was floating in this crazy space, I would stop and go back to that neighborhood and realize nothing's changed, really.

You do have a modicum of peace of mind here, but it's as unsettled as any other place.

'Safe Harbor' is a state of mind... it's the place - in reality or metaphor - to which one goes in times of trouble or worry. It can be a friendship, marriage, church, garden, beach, poem, prayer, or song.

I just want to live in peace and quiet.

If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.