Jacob Quotes

One's ribs shouldn't be prison bars.

Patriotism is being convinced your country is better because you were born in it.

Such is the demographic paradox of a junior physician's relationship with his patients: I worry about how to extend their lives. This anxiety inevitably shortens my own.

I love presents, But since I've gotten older, I haven't really wanted anything. Christmas is about family.

Dying is nothing, but pain is a very serious matter.

Whenever we see an unprotected piece we must keep our eyes peeled because this is one of the most important ingredients of a combination.

Every one's abilities may be increased or strengthened by a kind of culture.

I love Frank Ocean. I think he's so talented and his music is so great. So, I would love to do one of his songs like 'Bad Religion' or 'Pink Matter.'

I would be very nervous to rap I think if it ever comes to that! I'm going to try to steer clear as long as possible.

The most difficult thing for me is to take pictures from far away.

Though a song may race by in a minute and a half, every aspect of it is calculated and intentional.

What I've witnessed, managers are divisive and allow musicians to become clouded, irresponsible, and unaware of the world around them.

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

Thanksgiving, to be truly Thanksgiving, is first thanks, then giving.

It's a sort of curious phenomenon that God is somehow not quite as nice as the devil; the devil doesn't punish you for behaving well, but God punishes you for behaving badly.

It is not the business of science to inherit the earth, but to inherit the moral imagination; because without that, man and beliefs and science will perish together.

To me the most interesting thing about man is that he is an animal who practices art and science and in every known society practices both together.

Dissent is the mark of freedom, as originality is the mark of independence of mind. … No one can be a scientist … if he does not have independence of observation and of thought.

One original thought is worth the sum total of human knowledge, because it advances the sum total of human knowledge by that one original thought.

I call that brilliant sequence of cultural peaks The Ascent of Man.

The human baby, the human being, is a mosaic of animal and angel.

Nature has not fitted man to any specific environment.

The great poem and the deep theorem are new to every reader, and yet are his own experiences, because he himself recreates them.

In the moment of appreciation we live again the moment when the creator saw and held the hidden likeness.

Knowledge is not a loose-leaf notebook of facts. Above all, it is a responsibility for the integrity of what we are, primarily of what we are as ethical creatures.

I grew up to be indifferent to the distinction between literature and science, which in my teens were simply two languages for experience that I learned together.

The progress of science is the discovery at each step of a new order which gives unity to what had seemed unlike.

The preoccupation with the choice of a mate both by male and female I regard as a continuing echo of the major selective force by which we have evolved.

Whether our work is art or science or the daily work of society, it is only the form in which we explore our experience which is different.

Revolutions are not made by fate but by men.

The child is not a prisoner of its inheritance; it holds its inheritance as a new creation which its future actions will unfold.

There is a social injunction implied in the positivist and analyst methods. This social axiom is that :;:;:;:;:;:; We OUGHT to act in such a way that what IS true can be verified to be so.

The largest single step in the ascent of man is the change from nomad to village agriculture.

The paradox of knowledge is not confined to the small, atomic scale; on the contrary, it is as cogent on the scale of man, and even of the stars.

I spend so much time in my studio, which can be very dark, so it can begin to feel as if I'm a mole underground.

Inactives-those whose feet are not placed on the path which leads to eternal life.

Why do some people fall out of activity . . . for the same reason that they fall out of bed . . . they are not far enough in it.

The faults and shortcomings we see in the members of our own ward or branch are of less consequence to us than one of the smallest in ourselves.

To think of abstraction as an end in itself is undoubtedly letting oneself be led into a cul-de-sac and can only lead to exhaustion and impotence.

Why dont they stick to murder and leave art to us?

To accuse me of making sensations is the easiest way of attacking me, and in reality leaves the question of sculpture untouched.

The reason people hate America is because they don't like being treated like garbage by arrogant, pompous, hypocritical, self-righteous, duplicitous, imperialist political and bureaucratic hacks.

No matter what federal program one selects - Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, the drug war, the income tax and the IRS, education, foreign interventions and wars - they are all a giant mess.

Responsibility is something you take as a matter of fact, like breathing air; living without it is impossible, but do not think about it too much.

I read the book [ 'Middle School' ]! There was nothing specific really, I think everything in the film was great!

I worked with Adam Pally and he's hilarious and the king of improv!

My mom and dad have had a huge impact on my life, so I look up to them. As a actor, I would say Hugh Jackman.

Business, properly understood, is so central to every aspect of our civilization that Republicans should proudly announce that they are indeed the party of business.

Im a politician. What I say is not holy writ.

'Heartbreak Heard Around the World' is about me and my girl, and I'm just going through a broken-heart stage in a relationship, and I'm just kind of expressing my love for her.