Top 81 Jacoby Quotes
#1. This Jacoby character, regardless of how dreamy he may appear, is aiding and abetting my captivity. Not exactly the kind of guy you want to bring home to meet mom.
Erica Cope
#2. Coleman Jacoby and Arnie Rosen won an Emmy and Mel Brooks didn't! Niezsche was right! There is no God! There is no God!
Mel Brooks
#3. I remember that Scott Jacoby was a nice young man.
Kim Hunter
#4. I weighed the pros and cons of both, and college outweighed the pro ranks at the time and I'm definitely glad I made the choice to come to Oregon State because I'm a better player for it.
Jacoby Ellsbury
#5. My biggest thing is to stay with my approach and take quality ABs to the plate. I'm just trying to keep it simple.
Jacoby Ellsbury
#6. The biggest religious wars and persecutions in history occur when religions, each claiming their own absolute truths, come into conflict.
Susan Jacoby
#7. This is my dream. I ain't giving up. I see a band like the Red Hot Chili Peppers, and they've had their ups and downs, but they've continued with heart. We look up to that. I see Papa Roach being around for another 15 years. We've always wanted to be a career band.
Jacoby Shaddix
#8. As long as the Good News remains a matter of abstract facts, it will have little more effect on your life than your insurance policy has on the way you drive.
Matthew Jacoby
#9. My favorite team while I was growing up was the New Orleans Saints. My favorite player was Joe Horn.
Jacoby Jones
#10. High culture can never be obliterated as long as the species continues to produce individuals with the inclination and fortitude to pursue their interests and talents against the grain of the mass culture surrounding them.
Susan Jacoby
#11. One of the great weaknesses of the women's rights movement over the past two hundred years has been the tendency of its history to disappear, so that it must be resurrected for each new generation.
Susan Jacoby
#12. I love Baltimore, I want to retire a raven
Jacoby Jones
#13. I try to be my own player. I really haven't modeled my game after anybody.
Jacoby Ellsbury
#14. With the single crossing over to pop radio, it's bringing out new people to the shows. We've got all our metal kids and punk kids who still love us. And then we've got the average joes coming out. We call our fans the 'mixed nuts' because it's all kinds of people out there.
Jacoby Shaddix
#15. The light of love is the brightest, because it shines into those who contact it and purify their soul. It is also dangerous in the fact that when you come into contact with it just once, you can't truly live life if it is to leave.
Shannan Jacoby
#16. Americans are in serious intellectual trouble - in danger of losing our hard-won cultural capital to a virulent mixture of anti-intellectualism, anti-rationalism and low expectations.
Susan Jacoby
#17. Religious education is only valuable intellectually, if the child is educated in a religion versus [just] about a religion. I don't believe you can have both.
Susan Jacoby
#18. We both stared at him. It was as if a dog had just talked.
M.L. Brennan
#19. I've been doing a lot of thinking"
"Uh-Oh, Thinking. That's a dangerous business!
Justin Somper
#21. I say my greatest strength is my speed, and I think that I could use some work on my concentration.
Jacoby Jones
#22. Common sense, the half-truths of a deceitful society, is honored as the honest truths of a frank world.
Russell Jacoby
#23. The more intelligent and competent a woman is in her adult life, the less likely she is to have received an adequate amount of romantic attention in adolescence.
Susan Jacoby
#24. If you chose a particular religion, you were siding with the government religion of whatever region you were in. That's never been true in America, but also, the United States also has so many more immigrant groups which also tends to imply more religious diversity right away.
Susan Jacoby
#26. I believe that whether one believes in God or not is - it's very central to who I am.
Susan Jacoby
#27. My atheism doesn't define my day-to-day life at all. But I realize - and maybe it is because, unlike people who sort of stay comfortably in a religion, I had to do a lot of thinking and reading before I realized that I was an atheist.
Susan Jacoby
#28. Atheism is not a religion. One of the things, in fact, that atheism lacks are the kinds of rituals that religion does provide and I would be the first to say that.
Susan Jacoby
#29. That so many manage to accommodate belief systems encompassing both the natural and the supernatural is a testament not to the compatibility of science and religion but to the flexibility, in both the physical and metaphysical senses, of the human brain.
Susan Jacoby
#30. I still do find the prayers of the Kaddish quite moving, and I just substitute in my mind nature, although that's what the founders did in a lot of their documents, too. They substituted nature or providence for God. I think that's what I do in my head with Jewish God.
Susan Jacoby
#31. You can't complain when people appreciate what you're doing.
Jacoby Ellsbury
#32. More than half of Americans have changed religions at least once in their adult lifetime. This is - the rate of religious conversion here is much, much higher than it is anywhere in Europe, for example.
Susan Jacoby
#33. I feel culturally Jewish because of the way that I have lived my adult life.
Susan Jacoby
#34. This mindless tolerance, which places observable scientific facts, subject to proof, on the same level as unprovable supernatural fantasy, has played a major role in the resurgence of both anti-intellectualism and anti-rationalism.
Susan Jacoby
#35. We were 6 feet under. A lot of people gave up on us, including fans and critics and show promoters and record labels.
Jacoby Shaddix
#36. I no more believe in the God of the Jews than I believe in any God.
Susan Jacoby
#37. If during the Reformation you were a Catholic who lived in a part of Germany in which Lutheranism was the ascendant religion and the ruler of the province or the region was Lutheran, to stay a Catholic, you either had to be a dissenter or you had to leave.
Susan Jacoby
#38. I can't imagine falling in love with a devoutly religious person.
Susan Jacoby
#39. For one thing, the Catholic Church in particular has this one thing - confession - in which you could go, confess to a priest and obtain absolution of your sins. And there was a routine and a ritual and I think - I think that it did help.
Susan Jacoby
#40. I don't see why any president has to talk about his belief in God.
Susan Jacoby
#41. This is like the gun you shoot at the beginning of the race or the bell that you ring at the beginning of a classroom discussion, .. This is the president saying, 'OK, we're going to get serious about this now. Congress is going to work on it. I'm going to put my political capital behind it.' .
Tamar Jacoby
#42. I'm half Native American and half white so I think I can adjust culturally to anything.
Jacoby Ellsbury
#44. It is easy to forget, since the Catholic Church is now the only large American religious denomination whose ecclesiastical hierarchy continues to oppose birth control, that only a century ago the leaders of nearly all churches were united in their resistance to any public discussion of the subject.
Susan Jacoby
#46. If enough money is involved and enough people believe that two plus two equals five the media will report the story with a straight face always adding a qualifying paragraph noting that mathematicians however say that two plus two still equals four.
Susan Jacoby
#47. A person can be religious and still respect secular values and not talk about Jesus all the time as though every American believed in Jesus.
Susan Jacoby
#48. Perfection is real. It occurs when you find that other part of you, that other person, that when combined you become one, perfect being.
Shannan Jacoby
#49. In a recent poll, one in four people said they'd donate a kidney to a complete stranger. Yeah, sure... 90% of people won't even let a stranger merge in traffic. Jay Leno
Jack Jacoby
#50. One of the interesting things is is that Judaism was very attractive to the Roman aristocracy.
Susan Jacoby
#51. I am a big fan of Chad Johnson. I think that I would compare myself to him as well.
Jacoby Jones
#52. We do want our fellow citizens to respect our deeply held conviction that the absence of an afterlife lends a greater, not a lesser, moral importance to our actions on earth.
Susan Jacoby
#53. I have always regarded the development of the individual as the only legitimate goal of education.
Susan Jacoby
#54. I feel Jewish in the sense of culturally Jewish, I suppose the way Bernie Sanders feels Jewish, but not Jewish in a religious sense.
Susan Jacoby
#55. Throughout the three decades preceding the Civil War, the anticlerical ethos of the radical abolitionists was used against them by religious opponents of emancipation, who ... even described abolitionism itself as an atheist plot.
Susan Jacoby
#56. It was fun, having speed and being able to jump. Especially playing football. I played wide receiver and defensive back.
Jacoby Ellsbury
#57. I think very few people realize how much the separation of church and state has to do with the fact that Americans are not only more religious than a lot of other people in the world but that conversions are much more common here.
Susan Jacoby
#58. Real-life discussions involve a great many bores and boors who have never learned that the art of conversation demands listening as well as talking.
Susan Jacoby
#59. I have received many touching letters and emails from people who live in the most religious parts of the country, in places like rural Texas, saying it is so good to see someone be able to say I am an atheist without shame.
Susan Jacoby
#60. It will be nearly impossible to slow warming appreciably without condemning much of the world to poverty unless energy sources that emit little or no carbon dioxide become competitive with conventional fossil fuels.
Henry Sylvester Jacoby
#61. For us, selling a million records in 2005 is the equivalent of selling 2 to 3 million records (five years ago). Rock records aren't flying off the shelves like they used to. Hip-hop and pop are so huge. (But) everything's on the upswing for us.
Jacoby Shaddix
#62. Love is like an unfathomable idea. An idea that is slightly above euphoria, yet a fingers width from heaven.
Shannan Jacoby
#63. We really refocused ourselves. I didn't want to live my life in a dark shadow all of the time.
Jacoby Shaddix
#64. Once upon a time, there was a clear set of choices that people made. Now there are so many choices of how to think, how to define ourselves.
Tamar Jacoby
#65. Who was the fool, who the wise man, beggar or king? Whether poor or rich, all's the same in death.
Jacoby Shaddix
#66. It's kind of cool that we've quietly been selling a million albums. We knew the album wasn't going to debut at No. 1. I'm stoked to see us being successful again.
Jacoby Shaddix
#67. Love makes people beautiful, beautiful in the fact that those who are stricken by love become blind. Not being able to see the evils and pain in the world, that's the part that makes people beautiful on the inside.
Shannan Jacoby
#68. People think that, that conversion to Judaism is just a modern phenomenon. But there was an era in the late Roman Empire Judaism was not a proselytizing religion. It didn't go out looking for converts, but it accepted converts.
Susan Jacoby
#69. We have to dedicate more time to our health and well-being than we devote to worrying about our "social" status.
Jesse Jacoby
#71. I understand the importance of giving back, and that's something I definitely want to do.
Jacoby Ellsbury
#72. I can no more imagine falling in love with someone who believed that than I can imagine falling in love with someone who believes that blacks shouldn't be able to vote and are inferior to whites.
Susan Jacoby
#73. I'm not saying that I think atheists are better than other people. God, no. What I am saying is I do feel that this an integral part of who I am. And it's not something that I could comfortably think of not sharing with the person I loved most in the world.
Susan Jacoby
#74. It's something fundamental to me, human rights that people are equal under law simply because they are human beings. And I can no more imagine falling in love with someone who believed, for instance, as Orthodox Jews do, that women are unclean during their menstrual periods.
Susan Jacoby
#75. Fat doesn't make you fat; carbohydrates make you fat.
Richard Jacoby
#76. I completely can't understand people of different faiths who say that their children will choose when they grow up. I think that if you believe in a religion, most people believe that it's right.
Susan Jacoby
#77. One of the reasons there are largely Catholic and largely Protestant regions of Germany today is that people did sort themselves out geographically.
Susan Jacoby
#78. The forgetting of the history of marginalized groups is both a cause and effect of their marginalization.
Susan Jacoby
#79. At its heart, all intellectual and emotional life is a conversation, and the conversation begins at birth.
Susan Jacoby
#80. The government should not be in the business of funneling money for social services through any faith-based organization
Susan Jacoby
#81. I don't ever participate in debates about the existence or nonexistence of God because I can't imagine why anyone would be persuaded one way or the other by such things.
Susan Jacoby
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