Jacquise Lockett Quotes

#1. For thence a paradox Which comforts while it mocks, - Shall life succeed in that it seems to fail: What I aspired to be, And was not, comforts me: A brute I might have been, but would not sink i' the scale.

Robert Browning

#2. If you're not enjoying writing, take a break. Let your passion return. Why should a reader like it if you don't?

Kira Hawke

#3. If everything was in your favor, if you did not have to surmount any great mountains, then you have nothing to be proud of. But if you feel that you have special difficulties, then you must indeed be proud of your achievement.

Eleanor Roosevelt

#4. Have you ever loved anyone?"
"You mean besides my mum?"
Luke was dumbfounded as he stared at Jack. He knew his friend's story. "She sold you when you were five."
Jack shrugged. "Doesn't mean I didn't love her. Just means she didn't love me.

Lorraine Heath

#5. I took a job at the pool in order to earn the five cents a day it cost to swim. I counted wet towels. As a bonus, I was allowed to swim during lunchtime.

Esther Williams

#6. I love you completely, don't you see? I even want the worst of you because it it's still a part of you.

Claudia Gray

#7. The late afternoon light came in through the curtains and made his face a study in contrasts. Chiaroscuro, she thought. The art of shadows and light.

Cassandra Clare

#8. The children of the white families in town were not permitted to associate with me, because my father was committing the then unpardonable crime, in Southern eyes, of educating negroes.

Lee De Forest

#9. I was born in a slum, but the slum wasn't born in me.

Jesse Jackson

#10. But I knew jumping was like dying, I would have to let go of everything.

Miranda July

#11. People do what they are told not to do. It happens time and time again. Here on the frozen tundra, it is known as the Tongue on the Frozen Pump Handle principle.

Garrison Keillor

#12. You cannot and should not try to please everyone. Make sure that the right people like you, and it will be expected that others will not. That's how the world works.

David Maister