Wrestling With The Angel Quotes

#1. Love leads us to write poetry because love improves our hearing; like prayer, poetry is every bit as much about listening as it is about speaking. To 'get' the poem is to hear the eloquence of the silence that it calls forth through its manifestation of love.

David Patterson

#2. The first star tonight insanely high, virgin, calm.
I have one hour of peace before the documented planets burn me down.

Leonard Cohen

#3. Elections are not a beauty contest. It is all about tolerance.

Vladimir Franz

#4. In Judaism faith means wrestling with God as Jacob once wrestled with an angel ...

Jonathan Sacks

#5. We can trust the Savior even when we can't trust ourselves.

Beverly Lewis

#6. I don't trust anyone who does their own hair. I don't think it's natural.

Dolly Parton

#7. One thing I learned is how much easier it is to write about clothes than it is to make them.

Suzy Menkes

#8. Artistic temperament sometimes seems a battleground, a dark angel of destruction and a bright angel of creativity wrestling.

Madeleine L'Engle

#9. Mentoring is a mutuality that requires more than meeting the right teacher: the teacher must meet the right student.

Parker J. Palmer

#10. If you merely focus on what we already know, then it's not revelatory. You may as well just go and watch a documentary or a few videos on Youtube, and you're good.

David Oyelowo

#11. Only one thing can keep something close over time: holding it there. Grappling with it. Wrestling it to the ground, as Jacob did with the angel, and refusing to let go. What we don't wrestle we let go of. Love isn't the absence of struggle. Love is struggle.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#12. I was pretty sure I would never have to worry about finding the right guy. I thought it would happen for me the way it happened for my parents and for my grandparents. They got to the right age, they found the right person, they got married, they had kids.

Rainbow Rowell

#13. The boring story loses out, truth or not. That's just how it goes.

Kendare Blake