Quotes of: Jacob Keyword

So I got on with the business of lawyering away at the evidence. Minimizing it. Defending Jacob.

Defending Jacob

I find a certain comfort," confesses Marinus, "in humanity's helplessness.

The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet

How gleefully life shreds our well crafted plans.

The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet

Jacob's Doctor: You're a lucky guy, Jake. You must have friends in high places.

Jacob's Ladder

He thinks of the all steps that gathered this party and marvels at the weaverless looms of fortune.

The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet

We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love.

The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet

That evening I sat across from Jeremy Bulloch and Jacob at the dinner table. I watched as Jeremy, who seemed to speak Jacob’s silent language fluently, drummed his fingers up and down on the edge of the table, as if playing a piano. A delighted Jac...

Refined By Fire: A Journey of Grief and Grace

The whole encounter was surreal. No one had mentioned cancer. I hadn’t requested special treatment for Jacob. Yet he’d just nabbed a private meeting with an actor from his favorite movie. I would later ask Mike, the comic book store owner, what h...

Refined By Fire: A Journey of Grief and Grace

That?" I glanced back to the door where JT had disappeared. "That was Genus Homo, species , subspecies . Let us move on to the cages with the interesting animals." --Jacob "Yasha" Livingston

Jacob's Ladder

Jacob: "Let her stare." Terra: "What?" Jacob: "Yeah most of the starers are just curious. Smile back. That's what I used to do.

North of Beautiful

So little is actually worthy of belief or disbelief. Better to strive to coexist than seek to disapprove . . .

The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet

I wore the Marc Jacobs dress, so I love Marc Jacobs. He has a vintage flair. But I've always worn a lot of vintage stuff, so it hasn't been a lot of designers. If I see something that I like, I just buy it.

Elle Fanning

Michael: I'd only been in jail 13 hours, I thought 'Nam couldn't be any worse. Jacob Singer: Shows how little you knew. Michael: Yeah, really.

Jacob's Ladder

Louis: Well, you've done it to yourself this time, haven't you? Jacob Singer: Am I dying, Louie? Louis: From a slipped disk? That'll be a first.

Jacob's Ladder

Jacob: Let's talk about how many women you've been with. Cal: Sexually? Jacob: Yeah, no. I mean break-dance fighting.

Crazy, Stupid, Love.

Jacob: Are you the billionaire owner of Apple Computers? Cal: No. Jacob: Oh, ok. In that case, you've got no right to wear New Balance sneakers, ever.

Crazy, Stupid, Love.

My favourite finds are often antique pieces with a history.

Alice Temperley

Whether our days trip along like the angels mounting on Jacob's ladder to heaven or grind along like the wagons that Joseph sent for Jacob, they are in each case ordered by God's mercy.

Grace God's Unmerited Favor

What man ain't the honestest cove in his own eyes?" Grote's round face is a bronze moon in the dark. "'Tain't good intentions what paves the road to hell: it's self-justifyin's.

The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet

How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.

Florence Nightingale

there're times when i suspect that the mind has a mind of its own. it shows us pictures. pictures of the past and the might-one-day-be. this mind's mind exerts its own will, too, and has its own voice

The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet