Just Mercy Chapter One Quotes & Sayings

Earl had let Bertie off the porch for some fresh grass and I didn't want Dr. Eustace to see her. She still looked as though we'd put Hannibal Lecter in charge of her shearing and had hired the special effects team from Night of the Living Dead to bandage her. — Susan Juby

Regret is an appalling waste of time. — Katherine Mansfield

I'm a mild-mannered person. — Daniel Silva

I'm more interested in arousing enthusiasm in kids than in teaching the facts. The facts may change, but that enthusiasm for exploring the world will remain with them the rest of their lives. — Seymour Simon

This world's no blot for us,
Nor blank; it means intensely, and means good:
To find its meaning is my meat and drink. — Robert Browning

Well, now,' the latter replied pensively, 'they're people like any other people ... they love money, but that has always been so ... Mankind loves money, whatever it's made of -leather, paper, bronze, gold. Well, they're light-minded ... well, what of it ... mercy sometimes knocks at their hearts ... ordinary people ... In general, reminiscent of the former ones ... only the housing problem has corrupted them ... ' Chapter 12 — Mikhail Bulgakov

If our friends' idealizations of us need the corrective of our own experience, it may be true also that our own sordid view of our lives needs the corrective of our friends' idealizations. — Oscar W. Firkins

The chalks and slates fascinated them. They yearned to hold the white sticks in their hands, make little white squiggles like the other children, draw pictures of huts, cows, goats, and flowers. It was like magic, to make things appear out of nowhere. — Rohinton Mistry

Too often we withhold our heart from the wonderment of God's work in us. We want His plan for us more than His activity in us — Anonymous

If we do not save the environment, then whatever we do in civil rights will be of no meaning, because then we will have the equality of extinction. — James L. Farmer Jr.

Nothing can touch the human heart like kindness. — Lailah Gifty Akita

He wore black breeches, a black doublet, and a black mask adorned with silver. How fitting that he was already dressed in mourning clothes for his own funeral. — Victoria Roberts