God Assured Jacob

Famous quotes containing the words god, assured and/or jacob:

    The future is inevitable and precise, but it may not occur. God lurks in the gaps.
    Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986)

    the child unlucky in his little State,
    Some hearth where freedom is excluded,
    A hive whose honey is fear and worry,
    Feels calmer now and somehow assured of escape;
    —W.H. (Wystan Hugh)

    I was not unemployed in my profession by the late John Jacob Astor; a name which, I admit, I love to repeat, for it hath a rounded and orbicular sound to it, and rings like unto bullion.
    Herman Melville (1819–1891)