A Quote by Howard Jacobson

For my own poor part, I go to great lengths to keep my nostrils sightly.

Howard Jacobson

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Howard Jacobson
British - Novelist
Born: August 25, 1942

If I expect great things from my people, they'll go to great lengths to keep from disappointing me.

John C. Maxwell

Diets show to what great lengths women will go so as not to go to great widths.

Evan Esar

Sometimes a fireman will go to great strenuous lengths to save a raccoon that's stuck in a drainpipe and then go out on the weekend and kill several of them for amusement.

George Carlin

I go to great lengths to make certain situations feel right to the reader.

Sidney Sheldon

Humor, a good sense of it, is to Americans what manhood is to Spaniards and we will go to great lengths to prove it.

Garrison Keillor

The world does not have time to be with the poor, to learn with the poor, to listen to the poor. To listen to the poor is an exercise of great discipline, but such listening surely is what is required if charity is not to become a hatred of the poor for being poor.

Stanley Hauerwas

But some natives--most natives in the world--cannot go anywhere. They are too poor. They are too poor to go anywhere. They are too poor to escape the reality of their lives; and they are too poor to live properly in the place where they live, which is the very place you, the tourist, want to go--so when the natives see you, the tourist, they envy you, they envy your ability to leave your own banality and boredom, they enjoy your ability to turn their own banality and boredom into a source of pleasure for yourself.

Jamaica Kincaid

The more noisy Negro leaders, by depicting all whites as natural and implacable enemies to their race, have done it a great disservice. Large numbers of whites who were formerly very friendly to it, and willing to go to great lengths to help it, are now resentful and suspicious.

H. L. Mencken

If people know we expect good things from them, they will in most cases go to great lengths to live up to our expectations.

Alan Loy McGinnis

There is nothing little in God; His mercy is like Himself-it is infinite. You cannot measure it. His mercy is so great that it forgives great sins to great sinners, after great lengths of time, and then gives great favours and great privileges, and raises us up to great enjoyments in the great heaven of the great God.

Charles Spurgeon

I was thinking a lot about myself and my own super inextricably Jewish boy link with my mother. I felt like even a Jewish spy would have this relationship, so yes, I was very much exploring this relationship of boys and their mothers, and Jewish boys and their mothers. Exactly that, the ridiculous lengths that a doting mother will go for her son, and the ridiculous lengths that - I will pretend this is distanced from me - the ridiculous neediness of a grown man for a mother.

Nathan Englander

When people believe you have something to give, something no one else has, they'll go to great lengths and pay a lot of money for it.

Sarah Addison Allen

While men pretend not to judge women for the way they look, we go to great lengths to pretend we don't care, either.

Bari Weiss

My own grandmother went to great lengths to make sure I knew simple things like how and when to open the door for a lady. And the best thing my mama taught me was to pray.

Ronnie Dunn

At its core, our military is comprised of service members who are proud of their country and are willing to go to great lengths to protect American virtues of liberty and justice. I was one of them.

Ted Lieu

I've really had a great career. It's been part fortune and part my own choices that steered my own career into playing the great roles that I've played on stage in Australia and at the National and West End in London and on Broadway.

Essie Davis

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