Ejner Jacobsen Quotes & Sayings

When you witness the end of a life up close day by day, you begin to understand time and mortality in profound ways. You see time's relativity, death's necessity. — Alix Kates Shulman

It was that impossible thing: happiness that does not wilt to reveal the thin shoots of some new desire rising from within it. — George Saunders

Where resides the comforting knowledge of history's vast, cyclical sweep, the ebb and flow of wars and peace? Peace is the time of waiting for war. A time of preparation, or a time of willful ignorance, blind, blinkered and prattling behind secure walls. — Steven Erikson

That had to be the answer. When you heard hoofbeats, you didn't think zebras. — Stephen King

Outcast on a cold star, unable to feel anything but an awful helpless numbness. I look down into the warm, earthy world. Into a nest of lovers' beds, baby cribs, meal tables, all the solid commerce of life in this earth, and feel apart, enclosed in a wall of glass. — Sylvia Plath

The sea is a lonely and hostile place, Captain,' Jansen said coldly. 'It is always best not to make enemies of those who might be your friends. You never know when your ships may cross — Jocelyn Murray

If you want to know who is responsible for anything, as who benefits from it. — Oliver Potzsch

I am trying to encourage kids to do something that isn't yet on their mind because it is not in popular culture. Popular culture tells you 'music, music, sports, sports.' It neglects the importance of a STEM education. — Will.i.am

If you're doing something in the city, then hopefully you're speaking to somebody who has an open mind who is walking by. And you're also speaking to a community of other people who do similar types of work. I like to think that the outdoor community is broad and able and open for anybody to see. — Margaret Kilgallen

Every place is the same place in the dark. — Chuck Palahniuk

As an athlete, I've always been very proud to represent the United States. — Michelle Kwan

It may pass for a maxim in State, that the administration cannot be placed in too few hands, nor the legislature in too many. — Jonathan Swift

The gods visit the sins of the fathers upon the children. — Euripides