Jessica Jackley Quotes

The stories we tell about each other matter very much. The stories we tell ourselves about our own lives matter. And most of all, I think the way that we participate in each other's stories is of deep importance.

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• Verily He answereth him who prayeth unto Him, and is near unto him who calleth on Him.

  

  Baha'u'llah
  • Him
  • Near
  • Unto

• I like a fresh face. I like clean skin. Fresh skin, cute color on the lip, cat eye, mascara, and I'm good to go!

  

  Becky G
  • Good
  • Eye
  • Color

• I've never met anybody who says they don't like the World Cup. If you're a soccer fan or not, everybody loves watching it, and I think it could be the same for other sports.

  

  Landon Donovan
  • World
  • Sports
  • Soccer

• Yes, sometimes I think that all my writing is nothing more than the compensatory work of a frustrated painter.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Think

• I want to reach as many women throughout the world as I can.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • World
  • Women
  • Want

• Whatever our bedtime was as kids, we could stay up an extra half hour if we were reading. My parents didn't care as long as I was under the spell of a Stephen King or a Douglas Adams. Now I read in bed. I read at work. I read standing in line. It's like, 'Hello, my name is Nathan and I am a reader.'

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Up
  • Work
  • Long

• There is no better high than discovery.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • High
  • Better
  • Discovery

• I love the fact that everyone's trying to be good-looking in L.A. - then I turn up and I get work.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Good
  • Work
  • Fact

• Glenn Gould was my hero. Glenn Gould was my idol. I loved him.

  

  Warren Zevon
  • Hero
  • Loved
  • Him

• 'Idol' was groundbreaking television. I am very fortunate to have won the show at the time. 'Idol' changed my life, and I am thankful.

  

  Taylor Hicks
  • Life
  • Time
  • Thankful

• If you've got a plot the size of a car or a tiny yard in Italy, you're going to be growing tomatoes and basil and celery and carrots, and everybody is still connected to the land.

  

  Frances Mayes
  • Growing
  • Car
  • Size

• But the one thing that I did do was establish myself as a good actor.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • Good
  • Myself
  • Actor

• Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Flattery
  • Both
  • Giver

• I took Latin and Spanish. I can speak a very small amount of Spanish, but Latin has sort of gone away! Unless I was joining the Catholic Church, there would be no need to learn Latin.

  

  Madeline Zima
  • Small
  • Church
  • Learn

• French people are never happy with what they have. They're always complaining. They're happy when they're complaining.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • People
  • Happy
  • Complaining

• My first film 'Saawariya' was a flop; I don't regret it.

  

  Ranbir Kapoor
  • Film
  • Regret
  • First

• Politicians love power. I love freedom. That is why I am not a politician.

  

  Victor Pinchuk
  • Love
  • Why
  • Power

• I eat next to nothing.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Nothing
  • Next
  • Eat

• Like the UAE, we have been thinking of the time after hydrocarbons for a very long time.

  

  Joe Kaeser
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Long

• I like entertainment and think mastery is good, though I don't feel like a master. If a theme means having a story that's legible, then that's certainly what we do. But we don't treat design as an add-on layer.

  

  David Rockwell
  • Good
  • Design

• Lord, kiss me once more, fill me with song Allah, kiss me once more that I may, that I mayWear my love like heaven Wear my love like Wear my love like heaven.

  

  Donovan
  • May
  • Song
  • Heaven

• I think the idea of being on stage and playing for people, and being able to inject a little bit of joy into their lives is a really exciting concept for me. That's definitely why I make music. It's never been for any kind of materialistic reasons, so that thought of being able to be up on stage, and being able to give something to someone in a moment of need for them - that gets me up in the morning; that really excites me.

  

  Kimbra Lee Johnson
  • People
  • Up
  • Music

• The stories we tell about each other matter very much. The stories we tell ourselves about our own lives matter. And most of all, I think the way that we participate in each other's stories is of deep importance.

  

  Jessica Jackley
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