Manie Jackson Quotes & Sayings

On land off an ice covered sea the traveler can, for example, detect the presence of open water, simply because it reflects less light than land or ice. The open sea's telltale sign is thus a darkness on the underside of the clouds. — Harold Gatty

I know you do not understand what I am trying to tell you; I know you do not understand, because it is the thing that goes deepest into my heart, and there are no words as deep down as that. How can I make you know the reality of it? The world has spattered us all over with words, with cant phrases, with sarcasm, and with fulsome flattery. The world has been so officiously eager to explain for us the thing we mean and the worth of the thing that now, when we try to speak, our meaning is veiled, concealed, smothered, by the hideous volubility of facile expression. How can it have any reality for you when you hear only words about it? — Florence Converse

What is courage without risk ... It wouldn't really be courage, would it? — Jocelyn Murray

'Those who deserve to die, he paused, 'die the death they deserve' - Mr Big — Ian Fleming

If the main thing the next generations know about Jewish history is that we were persecuted and suffered, they will lose sight of the tremendous heritage of Jewish culture, theology, and wisdom. — Deborah Lipstadt

In the desire of the One to know Himself,
We exist. — Rumi

The freedom to be an individual is the essence of America. — Marilyn Vos Savant

The heart is our hidden center, beyond the grasp of our reason and of others; only the Spirit of God can fathom the human heart and know it fully. The heart is the place of decision, deeper than our psychic drives. It is the place of truth, where we choose life or death. It is the place of encounter ... — Pope John Paul II

Maybe I've used up my love luck. — Rae Carson

Mind and body are not to be taken lightly. Their connection is intimate and mysterious, and better mapped by poets than pornographers. — Shana Alexander

So it was constantly going back and forth between these two cultures that kept raising the question, well, how important is personal freedom? And I think that has always been of interest to me. — Sheena Iyengar

New York musicians rarely have the time for idle chat and conversation after a gig. Despite popular assumption of our scintillating after-hours, that illusion is overtaken by the constant hustle to juggle a part-time or full-time job, a myriad of errands, a second or third gig of the day, and perhaps a child or two somewhere. — Kat Edmonson

I'm a daydreamer. — Sara Paretsky

Now you may hear songs of kindness
From every singing bird
And from every dancing heart
Let kindness be the part of your being — Debasish Mridha

Influence is a very tenuous matter. I try to avoid it in every respect. I don't want to be influenced by anybody. — Erskine Caldwell