Jackknifing Quotes

#1. It was your basic Irish summer day, irritatingly coy, all sun and skidding clouds and jackknifing breeze, ready at any second to make an effortless leap into bucketing rain or blazing sun or both.

Tana French

#2. But maybe they were barbarians. Maybe this is what most barbarians look like. They look like everybody else.

Susan Sontag

#3. Never read anything that you wouldn't want to read out loud - - to your mother.

Mary Ellen Edmunds

#4. She knows how to hang on to my money. I wish her mom were the same way.

Orville Moody

#5. The kiss was brief, but when I pulled away, his expression made my day. He stared down at me, his eyes wide and the pupils slightly dilated. His lips were parted and that bolt in his tongue glittered. The tops of his cheekbones were flushed. He looked ... He looked gobsmacked.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#6. We must be on our guard against giving interpretations which are hazardous or opposed to science, and so exposing the word of God to the ridicule of unbelievers.

Saint Augustine

#7. Moses became America's true founding father because he evangelized action; he justified risk. He gave ordinary people the courage to live with uncertainty.

Bruce Feiler

#8. I feel I am lucky. I am grateful for this life that God has given me. I am happy, as I am getting to do work that I want to do and enjoy doing it.

Sonam Kapoor

#9. I have tried, in all the ways I can, to make timeless music.

Judy Collins

#10. If you really love someone, even if you can't see where you'll be or what you'll be doing twenty years from now, you'd still want that person to be there.

Meg Cabot

#11. My mind was not that of a conqueror, but that of a cow that spends its life chewing contentedly in the meadow of invoices, waiting for the train of eternal grace to pass by. How good it felt to exist without pride of ambition. To live in hibernation.

Amelie Nothomb

#12. We estimate the wisdom of nations by seeing what they did with their surplus capital.

Ralph Waldo Emerson