Jackdaw Entry Quotes & Sayings

So, whenever you find yourself putting forth great effort without success, you're trying to force something that won't fit under the circumstances. That's a destructive waste of time. And if that isn't enough to keep in mind, your techniques must always be allowed to evolve and change, in relationships, in life, in science, in society. Otherwise you stagnate, and you won't get anywhere in the long run ... You know what the philosopher Aldous Huxley said? He said 'Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead. — Tony Vigorito

Yes. I'm an Israeli citizen living in a dream world; a Jewish princess in Arabia, I should have listened to my own children. For God's sake. Egypt is not my country! — Linda Ruth Horowitz

Some people have too many crazy thoughts to keep bottled in their brains. They're called writers. — James Gough

How will we ever get out of this labyrinth of suffering? — John Green

No one can tell, when two people walk closely together, what unconscious communication one mind may have with another — Robert Barr

Emma - "
"I'm calling." Emma lunged for her phone.
"No!" Julian said, forcefully enough to stop her. "You know we can't tell anyone. About Mark - "
"You're not going to bleed to death in a car for Mark!"
"No," he said, looking at her. His eyes were eerily green-blue, the only bright color in the dark interior of the car. "You're going to fix me. — Cassandra Clare

It's so damn complex. If you ever think you have the solution to this, you're wrong and you're dangerous. — H.R. McMaster

Do not give your heart to that which does not satisfy your heart. — Poemen

He who does not see the whole world in his friends, does not deserve that the world should hear of him. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

That out of the quarrel with others we produce rhetoric, matter for the editorial page, while out of the quarrel with ourselves we create art. — Frank Lentricchia

Part of what makes you great as a young player can hurt you at the end of your career, in terms of you need a certain amount of ego, a certain amount of arrogance to be able to play well and to push yourself and trick yourself into thinking you're better than you really are. — David Cone

What? Do you suppose the intellect can work separately from the heart? — Ivan Goncharov

If you're not grateful, you're not rich - no matter how much you have. — John Templeton