Abosede Jacobs Quotes & Sayings

The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong. — C. G. Jung

We don't get paid for activity, just for being right. As to how long we'll wait, we'll wait indefinitely. — Warren Buffett

Having the capacity to lead is not enough. The leader must be willing to use it. — Vince Lombardi

I spend a lot of time idly. I go to sporting events, play my clarinet. I practise. But if you work every day, a certain amount on a steady basis, the work accumulates. — Woody Allen

The reaper does not listen to the harvest. — Terry Pratchett

She was the flint and he the steel. But in continual striking together they only destroyed each other. — D.H. Lawrence

An author should never conceive himself as bringing into existence beauty or wisdom which did not exist before, but simply and solely as trying to embody in terms of his own art some reflection of eternal Beauty and Wisdom. — C.S. Lewis

I've had a normal life, but I have struggled to get here. It hasn't been handed to me and it hasn't been easy. — Ashley Tisdale

I inherited my father's insatiable desire to meet all the beautiful girls in the world. — Anthony Kiedis

The teacher who isn't a genius is made into a teacher of genius by the student of genius at this precise moment for a very precise time period, I thought. But — Thomas Bernhard

A newspaper can follow the compulsions, the desires of the readers. Take the English evening newspapers - they are following the readers' desires when they are interested only in the royal family gossip. But even the most objective, serious newspaper in the world designs the way in which the reader could or should think. That's unavoidable. — Umberto Eco

History consists of a corpus ascertained facts. The facts are available to the historian in documents, inscriptions and so on, like fish in the fishmonger's slab. The historian collects them, takes them home, and cooks and serves them in whatever style appeals to him. — Edward Hallett Carr

This felt right. Not just leaving, but how I was doing it. Without regret, without second guessing. And with Wes right there, holding the door open for me as I walked out into the light. — Sarah Dessen

No one is laughable who laughs at himself. — Lucius Annaeus Seneca