Top 100 Quotes About Jacob
#1. Jacob: "Let her stare."
Terra: "What?"
Jacob: "Yeah most of the starers are just curious. Smile back. That's what I used to do.
Justina Chen
#2. There was no way Jacob would voluntarily miss an afternoon with Renesmee sans bloodsuckers.
-Bella Cullen
Stephenie Meyer
#3. Is this your idea of a joke?" she whispered as Mr. Jenkins stood to begin that day's lesson. I pulled out my notebook and shook my head. "No joke. My plan is to win you back one physics problem at a time." Connor laughed. "Does this make me Jacob?
R.S. Grey
#4. My business partner and make-up artist Kim Jacob and I have employed every member of staff, decided where every desk in the office should go, tried every product on our faces.
Louise Nurding
#5. Jacob, inspector of shadows, miraculous interpreter of squirmy gut feelings, seer and slayer of real and actual monsters -
Ransom Riggs
#6. Maybe I was what Leah thought she was. Some kind of dead end that shouldn't be passed on to another generation. Or maybe it was just that my life was a big, cruel joke, and there was no escape from the punch line. -Jacob
Stephenie Meyer
#7. Dear Edward and Jacob, I adore you both, but I'm spending the weekend with Jace. Sorry! Love, Stephenie
Stephenie Meyer
#8. I took another breath and relaxed. Huh. I can see what everyone's been going on about. You stink, Jacob.
Stephenie Meyer
#9. Jacob Thorke. My label, but not the description of a person. The prints are the most permanent thing about me.
Scott Kelly
#10. No radio, no telephone," Melinda observed. "No mod cons whatsoever in Hloubetin, are there."
"We have a hamster," Jacob said.
"Not traditionally considered an amenity.
Caleb Crain
#11. Now-a-days lower Broadway is blocked with traffic at this hour and everyone walks; even the decrepit John Jacob Astor can be seen crawling along the street like some ancient snail, his viscous track the allure of money. Instead
Gore Vidal
#12. Some midwives said that pleasure overheated the seed and killed it. But others claimed that babies only come when women smile. This was the tale she told Jacob to inspire his caresses.
Anita Diamant
#13. I am what I am, and intend to be it,' for which there will be no form in the world unless Jacob makes one for himself.
Virginia Woolf
#14. 10 Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth. 11 The LORD of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah.
Anonymous
#15. He stares at me, and then leans back in his chair. "He's ill, Jacob."
I say nothing.
"He's a paragon schnitzophonic."
"He's what?!"
"Paragon schnitzophonic," repeats Uncle Al.
"You mean paranoid schizophrenic?"
"Sure. Whatever. But the bottom line is he's mad as a hatter ...
Sara Gruen
#16. I became fascinated by the then-blossoming science of molecular biology when, in my senior year, I happened to read the papers by Francois Jacob and Jacques Monod on the operon theory.
Susumu Tonegawa
#17. I really didn't care if he turned into a big wolf - he was still Jacob.
Stephenie Meyer
#18. With the warmth of an alien sun on his back, Jacob took a deep breath at the door and knocked.
Sharon Sant
#19. 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
#20. Without needing told, without Jacob's lead, Akando dropped to his knees and lunged into the throne room of Christ.
Willowy Whisper
#21. I didn't want to see this, didn't want to think about this. I didn't want to imagine him inside her. I didn't want to know that something I hated so much had taken root in the body I loved.
Jacob Black, Breaking Dawn, Chapter 9, p.174
Stephenie Meyer
#22. In the dead silence, all the details suddenly fell into place for me with a burst of intuition. Something Edward didn't want me to know. Something that Jacob wouldn't have kept from me ... It was never going to end, was it?
Stephenie Meyer
#23. I haven't read the 'Twilight' books. But it's everywhere so I feel like I know it. Edward, Bella, Jacob, etc. but ... I haven't read them.
Max Irons
#24. When it was all over, the dancers who had been long in Shawn's service were given either a substantial (for those days) cash reward (or severance pay) or a parcel of Jacob's Pillow land.
Walter Terry
#25. There was a darkness in Jacob now. Like my sun had imploded.
Stephenie Meyer
#26. Jacob did not cease to be a Saint because he had to attend to his flocks.
Teresa Of Avila
#27. During the 1920s New York Yankee owner Jacob Ruppert once described his perfect afternoon at Yankee Stadium. 'It's when the Yankees score eight runs in the first inning,' Ruppert said, 'and then slowly pull away.'
Peter Golenbock
#28. Before I knew what was happening he was pulled away from me and I wondered for a second where Anna had got such strength from. But it wasn't Anna who was bashing Greg Sim's face on the ground. It was Jacob Coote.
Melina Marchetta
#29. Hungary to the upper left, upper left, Serbia to the lower left, lower left. Bosnia on the bottom, on the bottom. Slovenia to the top, to the top. And where's Croatia?" "Where? Where?" Jacob sung. "It's next to the Adriatic Sea, across from Italy!
J. Lynn
#30. Between Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Between the Jacob I like and the one who annoys the hell out of me.
Stephenie Meyer
#31. I don't have any leeches on my speed dial. - Jacob Black
Stephenie Meyer
#32. To Jane Jacob's three traditional urban values of civic space, human scale and diversity, the current environmental imperative adds two more: conservation and regionalism.
Peter Calthorpe
#33. If, like Jacob, you trust God in little things, He may answer you by great things.
John Ross Macduff
#34. But God, who is ableto prevail, wrestled with him, as the Angel did with Jacob, and marked him; marked him for his own.
Izaak Walton
#35. Has there ever been a society which has died of dissent? Several have died of conformity in our lifetime. Jacob Bronowski in Science and Human Values
Jacob Bronowski
#36. Jacob stared for another minute, and then he suddenly frowned. "Well, damn!" he growled.
Stephenie Meyer
#37. They waited, none of them entirely convinced that the old man wouldn't appear before them again like the ghost of Hamlet's father or Jacob Marley or some other ...
Stephen King
#40. I give praise and honor to the Holy one of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob for the blessing of motherhood.
Emunah Y'srael
#41. You are indestructible .J
For some reason I felt light-headed when I finished writing and looked up at her, like I'd stood up too fast or the oxygen had left my brain. Oh pulled her arm back, looked thoughtfully at the words, and replied, It's upside down, but I like it. You done good, Jacob.
Patrick Carman
#42. Did you know that 'I told you so' has a brother,Jacob?" she asked cutting me off. "His name is 'Shut the hell up'.
Stephenie Meyer
#43. 5Happy is he who has the God of Jacob for his help, Whose hope is in the LORD his God, 6Who made heaven and earth, The sea, and all that is in them;
John F. MacArthur Jr.
#44. Like an earthbound sun, whenever someone was within his gravitational pull, Jacob warmed them. It was natural, a part of who he was. No wonder I was so eager to see him.
Stephenie Meyer
#45. I'm not like a car Jacob, now matter how you try to fix me, I'll never run right.
Stephenie Meyer
#46. Jacob orders a Campari and tonic, and I order tea, as planned.
Paulo Coelho
#47. Look around," Jacob said. "You're right, the shadows are getting longer, but, look at the light too. Look at what's happening to the light. Shadows are dark, always dark, even when they leak out across the grass into the street. But what's happened to the light?
Schuy R. Weishaar
#48. God of Jacob! it is the meeting of two fierce tides - the conflict of two oceans moved by adverse winds!
Walter Scott
#49. I couldn't get the words exactly right; I only remembered wishing that Jacob were my brother so that we could love each other without any confusion or pain.
Stephenie Meyer
#50. I was much more upset by the situation with Jacob than by the possibility of being eaten by a bear.
Stephenie Meyer
#51. I pushed my legs faster, letting Jacob Black disappear behind me.
Stephenie Meyer
#52. Jacob went to the sink and held his hands under the tap. He splashed cold water on his face and formed another ab-flashing maneuver that would bring every card-carrying queer to his knees.
Jordan Castillo Price
#53. Jacob crammed his eyes shut, listening to that feeble breathing, half expecting every breath to be the last. Lord, did You leave me for a purpose?
Willowy Whisper
#54. 7 p The LORD of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our fortress. Selah
Anonymous
#55. Is Jacob paying you for all the P.R., or are you a volunteer?
Stephenie Meyer
#56. Jacob's room is the place entropy goes to die.
Jodi Picoult
#57. Interagency cooperation was all well and good, but it was understood to be the sport of the aristocracy; rank-and-file workers like Jacob were expected to keep to their own kind.
Robert Kroese
#58. Jacob would have rather looked out of place at the Ritz than look like he cared to fit in anywhere.
Tiffanie DeBartolo
#59. It's gone!" he repeats, almost ecstatically.
"That's because you let it go," Jacob tells him.
Christopher Isherwood
#60. I want you to wrestle with the Bible. Do it. Wrestle until, Jacob-like, you walk with a limp ever after, and you receive the blessing of the Lord.
Sarah Bessey
#61. My money's on the big Indian,' someone was saying. I peeked up to see that Tyler, Mike, Austin and Ben had there heads bent together, deep in conversation. 'Yeah,' Mike whispered. 'Did you see the size of that Jacob kid? I think he could take Cullen down.' Mike seemed pleased by the idea.
Stephenie Meyer
#62. What Jacob and Monod had discovered, in essence, was that each gene acts like a single line in a computer program.
Gary F. Marcus
#63. Better than anything you've come up with," Jacob answered, his human voice startling me. "Go fetch a space heater," he grumbled. "I'm not a St. Bernard.
Stephenie Meyer
#64. After having had so many dealings under God's hand, Jacob was undoubtedly tired of human life. He was weary of supplanting, cheating, struggling, and fighting.
Witness Lee
#65. A recluse, like Hepzibah, usually displays remarkable frankness, and at least temporary affability, on being absolutely cornered, and brought to the point of personal intercourse; like the angel whom Jacob wrestled with, she is ready to bless you when once overcome.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
#66. Step by step, one by one, higher and higher. Step by step, rung by rung, climbing Jacob's ladder.
Huey Lewis
#67. You don't make a friend," Jacob said with a scowl. "It's not like they come with directions like you'd find on a box of macaroni and cheese.
Jodi Picoult
#68. I understood now: how nothing looked more beautiful than that scar of his, that borderline that separated what Jacob could have been had he stayed in that orphanage from who he is.
Justina Chen
#69. My relationship with Jacob used to be so easy. Natural as breathing.
Stephenie Meyer
#70. Maybe she was a little dark but she sort of sparkled with it.
Jacob about Muse
Z.A. Maxfield
#71. I think the fans would love anybody who played Jacob. I'm just lucky to be the one who got the chance.
Taylor Lautner
#72. Tell me what you're afraid of,' Jacob said.
Shit, I thought, this could take all day. My life was ruled by my fears.
Tiffanie DeBartolo
#73. A burdened heart doesn't equate to a lack of faith. The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob can heal with a simple command. The burden comes from wondering if that's His will and may it be done.
Donna Lynn Hope
#74. Jacob: Newt . . . I don't think I'm dreaming.
Newt: What gave it away?
Jacob: I ain't got the brains to make this up.
J.K. Rowling
#75. Instinct and study, love and hate;
Audacity-reverence. These must mate,
And fuse with Jacob's heart,
To wrestle with the angel
Art.
Herman Melville
#76. And Jacob's right-about one thing, anyway-a pack of werewolves ought to be enough to protect even you for one evening.
Stephenie Meyer
#77. Sydney tried - sometimes he really tried - but his default mindset didn't have those kinds of manners. What he really meant was more like "Jacob, get over here or I'll freeze your underwear." Something like that.
Rebecca McKinsey
#78. I [Jacob Hunt, Aspie] see it as the next step of evolution: I cannot take away your sadness, so why should I acknowledge it?
Jodi Picoult
#79. Eastman Jacob's legendary attempt to launch a car attached to a glider plane using Hampton's Tony Chesapeake Avenue as a runway only confirmed the Hamptonian's feelings that the Good Lord didn't always see fit to give book sense and common sense to the same individual.
Margot Lee Shetterly
#80. I'm tempted to tell you that you think too much, but I'm not really one to talk,' Jacob said. 'Henry Miller wrote something about fear making you fearless. It's a very powerful emotion. Use it to get what you want. I mean if it's going to rule our life, it might as well rule you to freedom, right?
Tiffanie DeBartolo
#81. And if he's scared of us, Jacob..." She narrowed her eyes at me. "That means there's something to be scared of.
Ransom Riggs
#82. Jacob was simply a perpetually happy person, and he carried this happiness with him like an aura, sharing it with whoever was near him. Lika an earthbound sun, whenever someone was within his gravitational pull, Jacob warmed them. It was natural, a part of who he was.
Stephenie Meyer
#83. On their way home, John said, "Marta, that's a long way to go so that Jacob can have a friend." "Shh," Marta said. "Ears." "What?" "We all have ears. Everyone in this car can hear, John." "Well, of course we all have ears. Oh.
Sharon Creech
#84. She would be afraid to fly when it came to it, and the rest of the world is not so interesting, Jacob, only different people doing the same things in a foreign language. pg. 198
Samantha Harvey
#85. This wasn't a choice between you and Jacob. It was a choice between who I am and who I should be.
Kristen Stewart
#86. Jacob was hardly in need of any physical protection I could offer. But my arms, pinned beneath Edward's, yearned to reach out to him. To wrap around his big, warm, waist in a silent promise of acceptance and comfort. Edward's shielding arms had become restraints.
Stephenie Meyer
#87. A blush of breeze rose from the grass. Jacob felt as if an angel's wing had beat against his cheek. He touched his cheek slowly. He felt embarrassed by the thought.
"That I should think an angel came to me."
He wept. And, again, the brush of breeze against his cheek.
Noah Benshea
#88. Speak to me, Jacob, do not play the tyrant.
Speak to me.
Maria McCann
#89. The night breathed through the apartment like a dark animal. The ticking of a clock. The groan of a floorboard as he slipped out of his room. All was drowned by its silence. But Jacob loved the night. He felt it on his skin like a promise. Like a cloak woven from freedom and danger.
Cornelia Funke
#90. 16
In 1994,
Congress passed the Jacob Wetterling Crimes against Children and Sexually
Violent Offender Registration Act, which effectively required every state to
establish a sex offender registry by 1997.
17
Charles Patrick Ewing
#91. ("Shoot him in the foot," Mr. Persichetti would tell Mr. Keane, years later, when Tony had already returned from the war and Jacob had drawn a bad number. "Break his legs before you let him go.")
Alice McDermott
#93. Jacob didn't say "Seize the day," he said "Seize what's been handed you." Make smart decisions. Make decisions because - he said it again - life is a temporary situation.
James Patterson
#94. Barzel, what some believe is a combination of letters taken from the names of the matriarchs of Jacob's family, Leah, Rachel, Bilhah, and Zilpah.
Alice Hoffman
#95. God changed Jacob's name to "Israel," which means "one who wrestles with God." As far as I know, Israel is still the only nation named after a wrestler.
Mark Russell
#96. He's confused. It's a classic love triangle ... like Peyton, Lucas and Brooke on One Tree Hill. Or Joey, Dawson and Pacey on Dawson's Creek. Even Bella, Edward and Jacob in Twilight, although none of you is a vampire or a werewolf.
Jennifer Jabaley
#97. 27. Why do you complain, Jacob? Why do you say, Israel, My way is hidden from the LORD;
Anonymous
#98. Jacob had seen too many horses whipped half to death to find anything romantic about horse-drawn carriages,
Cornelia Funke
#99. In general, I agree with Jacob Grimm and feel that we ought to permit changes and uncontrolled growth in language. Even though that also allows potentially threatening new words to develop, language needs the chance to constantly renew itself.
Gunter Grass
#100. God is erratic, sometimes vindictive, sometimes merciful. The people I was taught were heroes - Jacob or Moses or David - were ambivalent figures, or worse. But that messiness was joyful, and challenging. I loved having a Bible that I could argue with.
David Plotz
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