Shirley Ann Jackson Famous Quotes & Sayings

If you should ask me what are the ways of God, I would tell you that the first is humility, the second is humility, and the third is humility. Not that there are no other precepts to give, but if humility does not preceed all that we do, our efforts are fruitless. — Saint Augustine

I was very involved with school by the time I was 15 and wasn't working much as a model. — Rachael Leigh Cook

[Envy not for ... ] Whatever difference there may appear to be in men's fortunes, there is still a certain compensation of good and ill in all, that makes them equal. — Pierre Charron

It does seem to me that at least some of us have made an idol of exhaustion. The only time we know we have done enough is when we are running on empty and when the ones we love most are the ones we see the least. — Barbara Brown Taylor

At our coming into the world we contract an immense debt to our country, which we can never discharge. — Baron De Montesquieu