Jacob Quotes

An eternity is any moment opened with patience.

Those who do not have will always serve those who do.

You are mine, and I am thine, and no power on earth shall make it otherwise.

I don't want you to say anything. I want you to listen. You know, being confident isn't the same as being right.

He is precisely the young man to fall headlong in love and repent it for the rest of his life.

A leader is heard, a great leader is listened too.

This is my mind, i own it!

Anna would like you, he thinks, looking into her face. Anna would like you.

Either the key to a man's wallet is in his heart, or the key to a man's heart is in his wallet. So, unless you express your charity, you are locked inside your greed.

I find a certain comfort, " confesses Marinus, "in humanity's helplessness.

Loyalty looks simple... but it ain't.

No doubt we should be, on the whole, much worse off than we are without our astonishing gift for illusion.

Dare to dream again.For dreaming is the language of your soul, And nothing your soul truly desires could ever be wrong or impossible.

Orito banishes all thoughts of Jacob de Zoet, and recalls Jacob de Zoet.

The greatest threat to our Constitution is our own ignorance of it.

I feel it respectful to observe and practice new customs, if I am to ever understand what it truly means to be human.

He thinks of the all steps that gathered this party and marvels at the weaverless looms of fortune.

It strikes me as unfortunate that this approach - affording the same dignity to and investing in the same quality for a poor child as you would for your own - is so often received as provocative.

That was the heart of the problem: every choice made sense from some vantage point.

Your enormous soul had so many choices of who it could show up as. It chose you.

That's life, You know . Dreams come true, just to get ripped away the millisecond you begin to let down your guard and let someone in. And thus the "circle" waits to begin anew.

-Are you nervous to meet my family? -No, not really.They're either going to like me or they won't. All I can do is to be myself and hope for the best.

You know you're getting older when you don't care where your wife goes just so you don't have to go along.

Think that day lost whose (low) descending sun Views from thy hand no noble action done.

she: Before we got married you told me you were well-off. he: I was and I didn't know it.

Diets are for people who are thick and tired of it.

Marriage is like a violin. After the beautiful music is over the strings are still attached.

A good husband should always bore his wife.

The only time a woman really succeeds in changing a male is when he's a baby.

There's another advantage in being poor. The doctor will cure you faster.

Father reading report card: One thing in your favor - with these grades you couldn't possibly be cheating.

speaker: I have only ten minutes and hardly know where to begin. voice in back: Begin at the ninth.

Men have a trick of coming up to what is expected of them good or bad.

Lord you know how busy I must be this day. If I forget you do not you forget me.

Man is a venerating animal. He venerates as easily as he purges himself. When they take away from him the gods of his fathers he looks for others abroad.

By the time a man can afford to lose a golf ball he can't hit that far.

We are all shot through with enough motives to make a massacre any day of the week that we want to give them their head.

I like to think I'm a pretty good friend. I love having a good time, and I enjoy being able to share those good times with others.

My fans are definitely my shareholders, and I'm extremely thankful for them.

I'm just thankful that even at a young age, I got to experience something like 'X Factor, ' and I got to meet enough people just to know that I needed to be patient until the right deal came around.

There's a lot of trust being built up. I think we have a lot of work ahead of us.

My mom told me if I ever got a tattoo, she was going to take it off with a potato peeler.

People change, they grow.

Every animal leaves traces of what it was man alone leaves traces of what he created.

I actually like spending time alone - it doesn't bother me at all.