Jabbok Quotes

#1. What appear to be dangerous and even bad periods in some lives can actually bring them closer to the Lord, because these individuals honestly wrestle with God, as did Jacob at Jabbok, rather than fearfully comply.

Henry Cloud

#2. What about the world do you most love?
The fact that I'm not here by myself.
-from interview by Jeff Vandermeer in Clarkesworld magazine

Margo Lanagan

#3. A great licentiousness treads on the heels of a reformation.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#4. There was no justice in the world - unless he made it for himself. Unless he cut twice as deep as he had been cut and gave back blow for blow. He had the right.

Conn Iggulden

#5. The distance had been evaporated by humor

Davis Bunn

#6. Any fiction writer who assumes that a character is typical no doubt runs the risk of stumbling into cliche and stereotype.

Alice McDermott

#7. Most lives are a flight from selfhood. Most prefer the truths of the stable. You stick your head into the stanchions and munch contentedly until you die. Others use you for their purposes. Not once do you look outside the stable to lift your head and be your own creature.

Frank Herbert

#8. I mean, that's life. Life is never predictable. Life is never really manageable. If your mind-set is always, "I'm just surviving", it seems to me that would wind up being the mind-set for the rest of your life. You'd just get stuck in it.

Joanna Gaines

#9. My taxes alone keep eight lawyers busy, and when I finally get my money, it's only one-third of what I earn. With the kids in school and my other responsibilities, I get no change back from the first million dollars. The money flows out like water.

Robert Shaw

#10. I will never understand why you Humans weren't designed to recycle your body's water after filtering waste. It's just so much more efficient.

Bryan Fields