Quote by John H. Sailhamer

“He wrestled with himself, like Jacob . . . like every leader ever to set foot on this earth. It is not faith that…

— Guillermo del Toro

“Jacob wore a tetchy air of mild resentment that Paul couldn't begin to understand. He was forty and his father was bankrolling him; what…

— Amy Waldman

“I’d be happy to give special treatment to a dedicated school teacher, or even someone like William Faulkner if he was still alive, because…

— Tiffanie DeBartolo

“Hence we may overthrow the error of those who think to form the moral character of others by speaking well and doing ill; forgetting…

— Dante Alighieri

“And despite it all, he has never been able to abandon hope that his betters will someday notice him. Will someday accept him as…

— Kim Wright

“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…

— James Patterson

“He could even be grateful in a sense that he had no particular area of interest: in avoiding specific goals he had avoided specific…

— Richard Yates

“He was such a throwaway thing of no importance, and yet he existed and would make that existence worthwhile.”

— Glyn Iliffe

“His life had been spent pursuing excellence and amassing a great fortune, but now that it was ending, there was no one he was…

— Steven Decker

“No matter how full one's head might be with the image of greatness, one was useless, I found out, unless one was a worthy…

— Sōseki Natsume

“Nothing was really so important to my father as the achievement of selflessness. He rarely mentioned it directly, but tried to guide us to…

— Tahir Shah

“He thought about how sometimes people's greatest sacrifices were the ones they didn't want the world to acknowledge or even to know about. Maybe…

— Amy Lane