Defending Jacob Quotes

#1. So I got on with the business of lawyering away at the evidence. Minimizing it. Defending Jacob.

William Landay

#2. Mona told herself that even if her recent feelings were a delusion, they were by far preferable to the thirty years of immaculate deception she had suffered in her first marriage. Yet she had to forgive Akbar Ahmad - perhaps because he was already dead.

Musharraf Ali Farooqi

#3. Out popped Paul Duffy, in plain clothes except for a state police windbreaker and a badge clipped to his belt. He looked at me - I think by now I had dropped the bat to my side, at least, though I must have looked ridiculous anyway - and he raised his eyebrows. 'Get back in the house, Babe Ruth.

William Landay

#4. Cheating gets easier every time it's done. It's only hard the first time, when one feels the sting of morality and the guilt of betraying someone's trust.

Greg Behrendt

#5. The growth of understanding follows an ascending spiral rather than a straight line.

Marion Milner

#6. You leave part of yourself on every stage you're on. How could you not live in the air somehow?

Nina Arianda

#7. Only supreme in misery!

John Milton

#8. I'm a grafter, I like working, but like for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, the film company only paid me for the shooting schedule, which was supposed to last six months. But it lasted 11 months and you don't get paid for extra shooting.

Jason Flemyng

#9. That love of self, which the world advocates, is a thousand times more dangerous than any poison.

Francois Fenelon

#10. Christ can forgive you," he whispered, though he didn't believe it. There wasn't a hint of compassion in those ice-blue eyes.
"That's grand," she said.
Her features became again those of the pleasant brown-haired nurse. She smiled, pulled the pillow from under his head, and covered his face.

Stephen M. Irwin

#11. Fame is a weird one. You need to distance yourself from it. People see a value in you that you don't see yourself.

Benedict Cumberbatch

#12. The opportunity ahead for Microsoft is vast, but to seize it, we must focus clearly, move faster, and continue to transform.

Satya Nadella

#13. Compassion is by nature gentle, peaceful, and soft, but it is very powerful. It is those who easily lose their patience who are insecure and unstable. Thus, to me, the arousal of anger is a direct sign of weakness.

Dalai Lama XIV

#14. I am a strong believer that without justice, there is no peace. No lasting peace, anyway.

Angelina Jolie

#15. If one has a purpose, life is bearable enough, do you not think so?

Deanna Raybourn

#16. Please, if you would," the butler said, "no throwing the linens. Peaches, anyone?" -Fritz

J.R. Ward

#17. Nothing matters so much that we should throw ourselves into a state of panic about it.
No happening is so important that we should let ourselves be exiled
from from inner peace and mental calm for its sake.

Paul Brunton