Jacques Kiecker > Jacques's Quotes

“The more you harvest, the quicker and easier it becomes”
― Charles Dowding, Charles Dowding's Skills for Growing

“To merge on the road you are meant to travel, means making a choice and then taking action.”
― C. Toni Graham

“God always gives us choices to make, our path or His path for our own sake.”
― Carolyn Cutler Hughes, Through God's Eye

“We have three sets of passports. Two are Egyptian with false names.”
― Karl Braungart, Fatal Identity

“After Bajju delivered a few beaming salutations, we walked northward up the makeshift, winding path through protruding brush, not much but a few stones placed here and there for balance and leverage upon ascending or descending. Having advanced about hundred steps from the street below, a sharp left leads to Bajju’s property, which begins with his family’s miniature garden – at the time any signs of fertility were mangled by dried roots which flailed like wheat straw, but within the day Bajju’s children vehemently delivered blows with miniature hoes in preparation for transforming such a plot into a no-longer-neglected vegetable garden. A few steps through the produce, or preferably circumventing all of it by taking a few extra steps around the perimeter, leads to the sky-blue painted home. Twisting left, hundreds of miles of rolling hills and the occasional home peeps out, bound below by demarcated farming steppes. If you’re lucky on a clear day and twist to the right, the monstrous, perpetually snow-capped Chaukhamba mountain monopolizes the distance just fifteen miles toward the direction of Tibet in the north.”
― Colin Phelan, The Local School

“Your little buddy just gave me the greatest
   Christmas gift I've ever gotten.”
― Kyle Keyes, Under the Bus

“Taking a deep breath, I am about to shout for Glenna when Moira says, No need to yell. Just use the k’bug, dear.
Oh. That’s better than alerting the whole monastery.”
― S.G. Blaise, Proud Pada

“We give our mistakes too much power. Instead, see a mistake for what it is. It is not the real you… You are more valuable than the opinion others have of you.”
― Gregory Dickow, Soul Cure: How to Heal Your Pain and Discover Your Purpose

“Maybe there was once a human who looked like you, and somewhere along the line you killed him and took his place. And your superiors don’t know.”
― Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

“Somehow we realize that great stories are told in conflict, but we are unwilling to embrace the potential greatness of the story we are actually in. We think God is unjust, rather than a master storyteller.”
― Donald Miller, A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life

“One can forgive but one should never forget.”
― Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood

“Your pain and anger will pass, but the guilt would remain with you for always.”
― Dodie Smith, The 101 Dalmatians

“My mother had no education and perhaps that was the reason that she always encouraged us to go to school. ‘Don’t wake up like me and realise what you missed years later,’ she says. She”
― Malala Yousafzai, I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and was Shot by the Taliban

“I put the charm bracelet away in the purse and return it to my jewel case. I don't need a spell to foresee the future; I am going to make it happen.”
― Philippa Gregory, The Lady of the Rivers

“Whither be the heart of Justice?
            Lo, in stone, child. Lo, in stone.
            Whither be the heart of Justice?
            Lo, tis fast in stone.”
― K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master

“He desperately tried to think of a story to explain his involvement in her sudden appearance, without mentioning the book of magic in his possession.
 ”
― Max Nowaz, The Three Witches and the Master

“Miho. You're an angel. You're a saint. You're a blessing from above. You're Mother Theresa. You're God.”
― Frank Miller, Sin City, Vol. 3: The Big Fat Kill

“I visited white-supremacist websites, designed by American racists, in which the Congo was held up as proof of the black man’s inferiority.”
― Tim Butcher, Blood River: A Journey to Africa's Broken Heart

“The immense accretion of flesh which had descended on her in middle life like a flood of lava on a doomed city had changed her from a plump active little woman with a neatly-turned foot and ankle into something as vast and august as a natural phenomenon. She had accepted this submergence as philosohpically as all her other trials, and now, in extreme old age, was rewarded by presenting to her mirror an almost unwrinkled expanse of firm pink and white flesh, in the centre of which the traces of a small face survived as if awaiting excavation.”
― Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence

“Everyone in the life before was cranky, I think, because they just wanted to know.

--After I Was Thrown in the River and Before I Drowned”
― Dave Eggers

“It means that, while our branded world can exploit the unmet need to be part of something larger than ourselves, it can’t fill it in any sustained way: you make a purchase to be part of a tribe, a big idea, a revolution, and it feels good for a moment, but the satisfaction wears off almost before you’ve thrown out the packaging for that new pair of sneakers, that latest model iPhone, or whatever the surrogate is. Then you have to find a way to fill the void again. It’s the perfect formula for endless consumption and perpetual self-commodification through social media, and it’s a disaster for the planet, which cannot sustain these levels of consumption.”
― Naomi Klein, No Is Not Enough: Resisting Trump's Shock Politics and Winning the World We Need

“Captain,” she murmured.
“I think I’m in love with you.”
An eyebrow shot up. She counted six beats of his heart before, suddenly, he laughed.
“Don’t tell me it took you two whole days to realize that. I must be losing my touch.”
― Marissa Meyer, Cress

“As it was, things went from bad to worse, as they often will when amateurs are involved in an activity that they perform in bad temper – or in a hurry.”
― John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany

“Bernstein passed the reporters’ information about Segretti on to Meyers, who was staking out Segretti’s apartment and talking to his neighbors. Marina del Rey, where Segretti lived, was on the water and, if you believed the ads, represented the ultimate in swinging-singles living. Lots of sailing, saunas, mixed-doubles tennis, pools, parties, candlelight, long-stemmed glasses, Caesar salads, tanned bodies, mixed double-triple-multiple kinkiness in scented sandalwood splendor.”
― Carl Bernstein, All the President's Men

“Storms rumble beyond the horizon, and the fires of heaven purge the earth. There is no salvation without destruction, no hope this side of death.”
― Robert Jordan, The Fires of Heaven

“he sits and waits and hopes that at some”
― James Frey, Bright Shiny Morning

“It was one of those British phrases, along with ‘May I help you?’, that can be either exceedingly polite or hugely aggressive.”
― Jasper Fforde, The Constant Rabbit

“She couldn't remember the last time she hugged someone, really hugged someone.”
― Cecelia Ahern, P.S. I Love You