Lakeisha Jacobs Quotes & Sayings

My god
how gentle you are with me
in spite of my great ignorance
and how merciful You are with me
in spite of my ugly deeds — Ibn Ata Allah

I believe in life and in people. I feel obliged to advocate their highest ideals as long as I believe them to be true. I also see myself compelled to revolt against ideals I believe to be false, since recoiling from rebellion would be a form of treason — Naguib Mahfouz

I didn't know Ian Smith myself! — Brian O'Driscoll

Shame can kill the imagination. It's hard to keep writing in the face of cultural derision. — Eloisa James

Given man's nature, freedom will always be in jeopardy, and the only question that need concern each of us is if and how well we took our stand in its defense during the short period of time when we were potentially a part of the struggle. — Benjamin A. Rogge

You have to be grateful for the small things, when any minute might be your last. — Joe Abercrombie

I was going straight for Mantis, but then that bloody gas got in my eyes and, I don't know, some massive bloke reared up in front of me. I hit him, but I swear, it was like hiting a wall."
Gracious nodded. "You hit a wall."
Maybury blinked at him. "I what?"
"I saw it. You ran into a cloud of gas and stumbled around for a second until you reached a wall, and then you shrieked and punched it. It was very heroic. — Derek Landy

But I know something else, too: bad people are rare. Good people are everywhere. — Jeff Bauman

The courts of this country should not be the places where resolution of disputes begins. They should be the places where the disputes end after alternative methods of resolving disputes have been considered and tried. — Sandra Day O'Connor

I don't want to express violence or anger or hate in my art. I want to express forgiveness. — Raymond Pettibon

Wine maketh the band quivering, the eye watery, the night unquiet, lewd dreams, a stinking breath in the morning, and an utter forgetfulness of all things. — Pliny The Elder