Alma Lefay Peregrine Quotes

#1. The absence from the Dead Sea Scrolls of historical texts proper should not surprise us. Neither in the inter-Testamental period, nor in earlier biblical times, was the recording of history as we understand it a strong point among the Jews.

Geza Vermes

#2. Wisdom is not mathematical, nor astronomical, nor zoological; when it talks too much of any one thing it ceases to be itself. There are wise physicists, but wisdom is not physical; there are wise physicians, but wisdom is not medical.

George Sarton

#3. I guess we're all guilty at some point of failing to appreciate the small things, because when we use a broad brush to paint our exemplary lives, we splatter ourselves with ignorance.

Danielle Esplin

#4. What about life, Ninotchka? Do Russians never think about life, of the moment in which we are living? It's the only moment we ever really have.

Melvyn Douglas

#5. It seemed to me as if the stones sang, in the strangest voices, in the language of Ultima Thule.

Robertson Davies

#6. It is the idle man, not the great worker, who is always complaining that he has no time or opportunity.

Orison Swett Marden

#7. Let silence take you to the core of life.

Jalaluddin Rumi

#8. I haven't seen 'The Exorcist,' but I've seen a lot of pictures of the girl in it. So now I don't actually want to see it. She scares me so much. I don't know what it is, but even though it's quite old now, it still has the best and scariest make-up I've ever seen in my life.

Kodi Smit-McPhee

#9. Americans need a champion and I want to be that champion.

Hillary Clinton

#10. Let love flow so that it cleanses the world. Then man can live in peace, instead of the state of turmoil he has created through his past ways of life, with all those material interests and earthly ambitions.

Sai Baba

#11. Art is as heavy as sorrow, as light as a breeze, as bright as an idea, as pretty as a picture, as funny as money, and as fugitive as fraud!

Barbara Kruger

#12. Do we have to know who's gay and who's straight? Can't we just love everybody and judge them by the car they drive?

Ellen DeGeneres

#13. Love is the weapon of the future.

Yehuda Berg

#14. On the death of a friend, we should consider that the fates through confidence have devolved on us the task of a double living, that we have henceforth to fulfill the promise of our friend's life also, in our own, to the world.

Henry David Thoreau

#15. Where I came from, just nodding and smiling when someone expressed views was the ultimate insult. If people weren't yelling about politics in our house then they were arguing about music, or movies, or food.

Ezekiel Emanuel