Jake Thackray Quotes & Sayings

I gained a great appreciation for what I would call the collective achievement of the country. I began thinking of America as a much more just and humane place than I would have thought if I'd been covering the civil rights struggle. — Charles Kuralt

Consider when, on a voyage, your ship is anchored; if you go on shore to get water you may along the way amuse yourself with picking up a shellish, or an onion. However, your thoughts and continual attention ought to be bent towards the ship, waiting for the captain to call on board; you must then immediately leave all these things, otherwise you will be thrown into the ship, bound neck and feet like a sheep. So it is with life. If, instead of an onion or a shellfish, you are given a wife or child, that is fine. But if the captain calls, you must run to the ship, leaving them, and regarding none of them. But if you are old, never go far from the ship: lest, when you are called, you should be unable to come in time. — Epictetus

I haven't found it to be particularly enjoyable ... ninety percent of the time when I go on dates, I'm thinking, 'I could be reading my book instead.' — Zosia Mamet

I think straight couples have a schedule: You're together for two years and then there's the 'where is this going?' question, which wouldn't necessarily be good for everyone, but I think it's pretty healthy for relationships, for there to be a presumption that there is a decision to be made. — Nick Denton

This is my first experience working in a foreign movie, but the mechanics, I think, are pretty much the same all over; you still have to wait in the trailer. — Dennis Farina

We go on dates thinking that person is our future husband or wife, without getting to know them, as we live in a fantasy and an illusion of romance. — Patti Stanger

Integrity is the light that shines from a disciplined conscience. — James E. Faust

The fate of a nation has often depended upon the good or bad digestion of a prime minister. — Voltaire

I think as with everything in life you've got to follow your gut. If you believe it wholeheartedly, then it's not going to feel like you're kind of pasting on an idea. — Toni Collette

Does it matter whether we believe it to be true or not? It doesn't, I think. For even if we chose the one above the other and later found out the other to be true, the outcome of all of this would still be the same: all of us will be affected by it. — D. N. Edwards

I don't (do) the paintings for the money at all. I just love to paint, even if I don't sell them. — Tom Six

All of my education at Harvard, then Oxford, then Paris was in literature - even my thesis was on Shakespeare. — Jonathan Kozol

We are awakening to that marvelous truth, that Christ is not in the heavens only, nor the atmosphere only, but Christ is in you. — John G. Lake

You will learn more when you teach someone else. The secret to obtaining more knowledge is teaching more people as possible and available! — Israelmore Ayivor