Jacian Quotes & Sayings

Jacian Obregon. It sounds like a melody. Or a tragedy. — Lisa McMann

I need to take a punch in order for me to throw that hook. — Nonito Donaire

Our greatest illusion is reliance upon the security and permanence of material possessions. We must search for some other coin. — John Cudahy

After I started publishing poetry I got to teach creative writing. Eventually I was promoted and even got tenure. But then I felt compelled to drop everything and move. But I've been teaching for a long time. More than four decades. — Joan Larkin

On summer evenings, when every flower, and tree, and bird, might have better addressed my soft young heart, I have in my day been caught in the palm of a female hand by the crown, have been violently scrubbed from the neck to the roots of the hair as a purification for the Temple, and have then been carried off highly charged with saponaceous electricity, to be steamed like a potato in the unventilated breath of the powerful Boanerges Boiler and his congregation, until what small mind I had, was quite steamed out of me — Charles Dickens

It takes only one word to hurt a woman, a matter of seconds, one stupid, impatient blow of the crop. But winning back her trust takes years. And sometimes there isn't the time. — Nina George

Don't be too hard on yourself!
Sanity doesn't want to go haywire. — Toba Beta

Everywhere I have sought peace and not found it, except in a corner with a book. — Thomas A Kempis

We should not clap our hands and mourn, for he is out of trouble. You are still in it. — David Ruffin

An unbridled pursuit of justice will never stand on moral pillars but will eventually sink to the same morally-bankrupted motive which caused the need for justice in the first place. At that point, the pursuit becomes nothing but a personal quest to justify one's own anger and refusal to live life once again. This became the reality of the shell of a man known as Thuy's father. Thang stood firmly on a collision course with death. Nothing else could satisfy the bitterness. Neighbors, once sympathetic, backed away, frightened that his angst might engulf and destroy — Mark W. Sasse