Juror Questionnaire Quotes & Sayings

No man can order his life, for it comes flowing over him from behind. But if it lay before us, and we could watch its current approaching from a long distance, what could we do with it before it had reached the now? In like wise a man thinks foolishly who imagines he could have done this and that with his own character and development, if he had but known this and that in time. — George MacDonald

As Joanna Macy reminds us, "Information by itself can increase resistance [to engagement], deepening the sense of apathy and powerlessness." Stories about particular individuals and specific situations usually have the opposite effect. By giving unwieldy problems a human face, they also bring them down to a human-and thus manageable-scale. — Paul Rogat Loeb

Her only life ambition was to read every good book that had ever been published. — Ken Kalfus

A whole lot of what we call 'struggling' is simply delayed obedience. — Elisabeth Elliot

I wanted to acknowledge that life goes on but that death goes on, too. A person who is dead is a long, long story. — Elizabeth McCracken

Every true artist is the salvation of every other. Only artists produce for each other a world that is fit to live in. — D.H. Lawrence