Jackson From The Originals Quotes & Sayings

your experience of conflict or peace is the result of your choice of thought system and not of what seems to be happening to the personal self. — Elizabeth Cronkhite

It is a terrible thing when it is the substitute that is sent to find a new life, a sign that a person yearns for change but cannot imagine creating it herself....
If scapegoats feel pain, it is only the delegated pain of their originals. — Shelley Jackson

I know a parson who frightened his congregation terribly by telling them the second coming was very imminent indeed, but they were much consoled when they found he was planting trees in his garden. — Bertrand Russell

I am capable of what every other human is capable of. This is one of the great lessons of war and life. — Gavin De Becker

Writers end up writing about their obsessions. Things that haunt them; things they can't forget; stories they carry in their bodies waiting to be released. — Natalie Goldberg

If it was not a good idea, it was at least an interesting one. — Candice Millard

My in-ear Babelfish provides synopses of the passages rather than a running translation, but now and then the interpreter confesses, I'm sorry, but I have no idea what he just said. I'm not sure the author knew, either. — David Mitchell

Listen,' he said. 'It's important. We are all. Free. To do. Whatever. We want. To do. — Richard Bach

And how, exactly, do you think I see the world, Mr. Kessler?" Ben leans back in our booth without breaking eye contact with my father. "Through the closed eyes of an arrogant asshole. — Colleen Hoover

There are tents, I am certain, that I have not discovered in my many visits to the circus. Though I have seen a great deal of the sights, traveled a number of the available paths, there are always corners that remain unexplored, doors that remain unopened. -Friedrick Thiessen, 1896 — Erin Morgenstern

Rock Creek is sacred and holy ground. How tremendous their heroism in the face of odds that are almost impossible to understand ... in terms of self-sacrifice, in terms of courage, in terms of faith, in terms of facing up to adversity, there is no greater example in the history of this nation ... We have a great inheritance ... a tremendous responsibility to live up to it. God bless us to be faithful, to be true to that which meant so much to those who died here ... — Gordon B. Hinckley

When I write I am the real me. — Ann Rinaldi

By humbly and frankly acknowledging yourself to be in the wrong, there is no knowing, my son, what good you may do. I knew once a gentleman and very worthy practitioner in Vanity Fair, who used to do little wrongs to his neighbours on purpose, and in order to apologise for them in an open and manly way afterwards - and what ensued? My friend Crocky Doyle was liked everywhere, and deemed to be rather impetuous - but the honestest fellow. — William Makepeace Thackeray

I didn't want to repeat my mistakes so I stopped, took some time out and started having therapy. My songs were bringing up feelings inside of me I didn't really understand, so I wanted to understand where they were coming from to help me be a better person and a better songwriter. — Neil Diamond

A hungry dog believes in nothing but meat. — Anton Chekhov

I'd like to bite that lip, he whispers darkly.
I gasp, completely unaware that I am chewing my bottom lip and my mouth pops open. That has to be the sexiest thing anybody has ever said to me. My heartbeat spikes, and I think I'm panting. Jeez, I'm a quivering, mess, and he hasn't even touched me. — E.L. James