Jesse Mercer Quotes

#1. I suspect Dr. Robert L. Webb may be theologically a 'hyper-Calvinist' of the Jesse Mercer persuasion."


~R. Alan Woods [2013]

R. Alan Woods

#2. A writer is a writer when he says he is.

Steven Pressfield

#3. It was the time when the field mice ventured out, after the hawks had settled in the trees but before the owls came to hunt. The sky was now the color Elv liked best - a tender dark blue, falling to earth like ashes.

Alice Hoffman

#4. Being a justice. If you love law the way I do ... you're given the job of a lifetime ... you're permitted to address the most important legal questions of the country, and sometimes the world. And in doing so, you make a difference in people's lives.

Sonia Sotomayor

#5. The truth is worth pursuing at any distance.

Kenneth Eade

#6. Basketball has been my life and I worked at it so hard because I enjoyed it so much.

Larry Bird

#7. Remember, I know what you are inside. Just a scared boy who tried to kill himself when he was too weak to save his wife from hanging.

Pierce Brown

#8. When I speak English, I've been told, I have this patrician way of speaking that's very irritating. It's the whole class thing.

Kristin Scott Thomas

#9. You can practice deep listening in order to relieve the suffering in us, and in the other person. That kind of listening is described as compassionate listening. You listen only for the purpose of relieving suffering in the other person.

Nhat Hanh

#10. Of what good is democracy if it is not for the poor?

Ferdinand Marcos

#11. All art is dependent on technology because it's a human endeavour, so even when you're using charcoal on a wall or designed the proscenium arch, that's technology.

George Lucas

#12. It is a policeman's duty to retrieve stolen property and return it to its owners. But when robbery becomes the purpose of the law, and the policeman's duty becomes, not protection, but the plunder of property - then it is an outlaw who has to become a policeman.

Ayn Rand

#13. Design does matter. And not necessarily in a way that people realize. A lot of what you do, people take for granted - that a park has always been here, that a bicycle lane has always been there, that the street is safe or clean ...

Michael Bloomberg

#14. Between religion's this is and poetry's but suppose this is, there must always be some kind of tension, until the possible and the actual meet at infinity.

Northrop Frye

#15. That's why I've come to you, to seek release from a curse of misery and horror against which I'm powerless to fight alone.

Edward T. Lowe Jr.