Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Before the Internet, before BBSes and Fidonet and Usenet and LiveJournal and blogs and Facebook and Twitter, before the World Wide Web and hot-and-cold-online-everything, science fiction fandom had a long-lived, robust, well-debugged technology of social networking and virtual community.
-
I'm very responsible. And with ability you have to have responsibility. I'm not perfect. But you have to make sure that your children will know that daddy makes mistakes.
-
I look upon another's insistence on the merits of his or her life - duties, intellect, accomplishment - and see that most of it is nonsense.
-
When you're a mom to three children, nothing bothers you. Trust me. Who cares what people say? I've got other things to deal with.
-
Man's enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself.
-
There's a lot of risk in putting what you suspect you really are into your music.
-
It's nice to know when you're a part of a story, it's nice to know at least something about the beginning, middle, and end.
-
Law school and summer camp are the two experiences that inform pretty much all I do.
-
I'm like a packrat with work. I hoard my jobs.
-
Power! Did you ever hear of men being asked whether other souls should have power or not? It is born in them.
-
I love to turn an idea that is in my head into reality.
-
Misfortune had made Lily supple instead of hardening her, and a pliable substance is less easy to break than a stiff one.
-
I really enjoy being an actor!
-
Everyone in business is tenacious and extremely aggressive. If you're not a 'now' person - do it right now - then you're not going to be successful. I like that kind of mentality.
-
You know golf is very lonely. When I'm in the States, I feel like if I just think about Taiwan, my friends, my fans, I won't feel like I'm alone.
-
I can paint pictures, but I cannot rule men.
-
Act so that the effects of your actions are compatible with the permanence of genuine human life.
-
There are some who call Yiddish a dead language, but so was Hebrew called for two thousand years. It has been revived in our time in a most remarkable, almost miraculous way. Aramaic was certainly a dead language for centuries but then it brought to light the Zohar, a work of mysticism of sublime value.
-
This sounds cheesy but when I would get in discussions with people about religion or spirituality, a lot of people would say, "I believe God is nature, there's God in that tree" - and I would think, What the hell are they on about? But it was about four or five years ago in Hawaii where that all made sense to me and I got it all, and I felt God was in the trees and in the grass and the flowers, and I completely understood.
-
So, The Color Purple changed my life. It changed everything about my life because, in that moment of praying and letting go, I really understood the principle of surrender. The principle of surrender is that, after you have done all that you can do, and you've done your best and given it your all, you then have to release it to whatever you call God, or don't call God.
-
Fair treatment of human beings and animals in many different realms strikes a chord with me.
-
Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body.
-
Oh Agnes, Oh my soul, so may thy face be by me when I close my life indeed; so may I, when realities are melting from me, like the shadows which I now dismiss, still find thee near me, pointing upward!
-
God ever arithmetizes.
