Jacqueline Carey Quotes

Gratitude looks to the past and love to the present. Fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead.

Human beings are very complex creatures. This desire, this greed, this love is very complex.

Scenery is fine - but human nature is finer.

Humankind would improve if we concentrated less on being human and more on being kind.

Regardless of what I was and who I am, above all, the most important thing is to remain human.

he used to think that he wanted to be good, he wanted to be kind, he wanted to be brave and wise, but it was all pretty difficult. He wanted to be loved, too, if he could fit it in.

It is easy to be proud & harsh & selfish - so easy. But we have been created for better things.

My sun and my moon signs are mostly Cancer - it's really strong. We're deeply intuitive and sentimental. I really like to take care of people, nurturing them. I'm very passionate about the things I do and like to see people I love grow.

Every day, I will try to be the best husband, dad, and friend I can be.

As humans, we are not so rationalist as we think we are. I think our biggest quality is indeed that we are human, truly human: if our biggest quality would be rationality, we would lose our soul.

Science may provide the most useful way to organize empirical, reproducible data, but its power to do so is predicated on its inability to grasp the most central aspects of human life: hope, fear, love, hate, beauty, envy, honor, weakness, striving, suffering, virtue.

I wanted to make sure that if somebody special did come along, I was the kind of man that a woman like her would deserve.

I think in general, people are baffled by love and what it does to them and how far they'll go to have love and be loved.

I turn to my wife for everything. Her success has never affected her as a person - she's incredibly loyal. We laugh together; we share everything, and she still surprises me. When I saw her in 'Sweet Charity,' I was so proud to say, 'That's my wife.'

I have a tattoo on my arm that says, 'Would you be proud to die this way?' And that's my reminder to continue to treat people well and love people, and if I took my last breath right now, would I be happy with who I am?

Pure love is the chief manifestation of education.

They say it's like true love, good help. you only get one in a lifetime.....there is so much you don't know about a person. i wonder if i could've made her days a little bit easier, if I'd tried. if i'd treated her a little nicer.

One of the more gratifying things about guilt is that it makes us feel important.

Even in the midst of compassion we feel within I know not what tart sweet titillation of malicious pleasure in seeing others suffer; children have the same feeling.

The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures.

The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.

To discover how to be human now is the reason we follow this star.

Even the proudest spirit can be broken with love.

When I look at him, I don't see the cowardly young man who sold me out to Jeanine Matthews, and i don't hear the excuses he gave afterward. When I look at him, I see the boy who held my hand in the hospital when our mother broke her wrist and told me it would be all right. I see the brother who told me to make my own choices, the night before the Choosing Ceremony. I think of all the remarkable things he is--smart and enthusiastic and observant, quiet and earnest and kind.

Ruth is so loyal and gentle-hearted, we cannot help loving her, as she stands with the reapers amid the waving corn. Her beautiful, unselfish spirit shines out like a bright star in the night of a dark and cruel age. Love like Ruth's, love which can rise above conflicting creeds and deep-seated racial prejudices, is hard to find in all the world.