Jaccard Index Quotes & Sayings

The first thought that occurred to me, that night when I heard the chairman of the jury announce my name, was, Just think how many people hate me at this moment. Naturally, I wanted to annoy those people even further by being arrogant. — John Banville

I hoped Claire would have a girl. A nephew would be fun until he got his first erection and then he'd be like the rest of them. — Meredith Schorr

And even if it is fake, even if it is for another woman, I want it. Badly. — Alessandra Torre

The god of the world is the gold and the silver. The world worships this god. It is all-powerful to them, though they might not be willing to acknowledge it. Now, it is designed, in the providence of God, that the Latter-day Saints should show whether they have so far advanced in the knowledge, in the wisdom and in the power of God that they cannot be overcome by the god of the world. We must come to that point. We have also got to reach another standard, a higher plane: we have got to love God more than we love the world, more than we love gold or silver, and love our neighbor as ourselves — Lorenzo Snow

Man's tragedy is that when he can do something, in the end he will always do it — Jacques Attali

Keeping a consistent band going is a bit like getting the Aston Martin out the garage - you have to run it every now and then! — Colin Salmon

And everything together, all voices, all goals, all yearning, all suffering, all pleasure, all that was good and evil, all of this together was the world. All of it together was the flow of events, was the music of life. — Hermann Hesse

Things happen for reasons that are hidden from us, utterly hidden for us as long as we think they must proceed from what has come before, our guilt or our deserving, rather than coming to us from a future that God in his freedom offers to us. — Marilynne Robinson

The dandelion's pallid tube
Astonishes the grass,
And winter instantly becomes
An infinite alas. — Emily Dickinson