Quotes About Jacob And Esau

#1. Far more crucial than what we know or do not know is what we do not want to know.

Eric Hoffer

#2. I get overwhelmed when I approach things intellectually.

Keegan-Michael Key

#3. All punishment is mischief; all punishment in itself is evil.

Jeremy Bentham

#4. I suppose in the end it's almost too easy to look back and say what you should have done, how you might have changed things. What's harder - what's much, much harder - is to accept what you actually did do.

Peter Hook

#5. The idea of the split personality is as old as Genesis. For a start, Eve was manufactured from Adam's rib. Then there's Cain and Abel, twins at war. They were followed by Esau and Jacob, likewise divisible into hairy and smooth types.

Clive Sinclair

#6. The one thing finished in this hasty world.

James Russell Lowell

#7. Now, tomorrow Miss Laurie McCrae and me, we have an appointment with a sky pilot who will make it proper for us to travel in double harness.

Louis L'Amour

#8. Sometimes it hurts to lose things, to leave them behind. We can't really forget them, so they linger. A twinge here, a sharp reminder there. The things we gain from the loss puts perspective on that pain. We can try to bury the pain, mask it, ignore it.

Melissa Foster

#9. Esau has always been at war with Jacob. The struggle that began in their mother's womb between two natured peoples (or nations) continues today.

Jerry Hannah

#10. My obsession with eating out partly comes from having spent 10 long years at English boarding schools in the 1980s, where food was pretty low on the list.

Ben Elliot

#11. The textile industry was the automobile industry of the Middle Ages,

Barbara W. Tuchman

#12. There shall be in the church a fleshly seed of Abraham and a spiritual; a Cain and an Abel; an Ishmael and an Isaac; an Esau and a Jacob; as I have said, a worker and a believer; a great multitude of them that be called, and a small flock of them that be elect and chosen.31

Steven J. Lawson

#13. Books are a finer world within our world.

Alexander Smith

#14. The utmost thing is the user experience, to have the most useful experience.

Marissa Mayer

#15. Almost immediately, his gaze flicked to Will and hardened into the dangerous, dead-eyed look. I saw myself through his eyes: dark hair, low-cut dress, with Will's arm around me.

"Oh, that temper." I said.

Jennifer Echols