Bickel Quotes

#1. I liked the name Frederick Bickel and I wish now I had left it as it was. After all, Theodore Bikel, whose name was similar though spelled differently, didn't change his, and he did all right.

Fredric March

#2. That was the thing he resented about religion, Bickel thought - the way it appealed to emotion rather than intelligence.

Frank Herbert

#3. A poem by Margot Bickel

A little peace
within the last hours of the almost bygone day
a little silence
between the days
so that the nascent yesterday does not get in the past
and tomorrow is lived for today

Margot Bickel

#4. If some crazy bastard tossed you into a lake when you couldn't swim, and you learned to swim like that" - Bickel snapped his fingers - "and you found then you could just keep on going, wouldn't you swim like hell to get away from the crazy bastard?

Frank Herbert

#5. [Margaret] Thatcher had just become prime minister; there was talk about whether it was an advance to have a woman prime minister if it was someone with policies like hers: She may be a woman but she isn't a sister, she may be a sister but she isn't a comrade.

Caryl Churchill

#6. The winds have a force so terrific as to eclipse anything previously known in the world. We have found the kingdom of blizzards. We have come to an accursed land.

Lennard Bickel

#7. Be shocking, be daring, be bold, be passionate.

Jane Porter

#8. She was fifteen when it occurred to her for the first time that women did not run railroads and that people might object. To hell with that, she thought- and never worried about it again.

Ayn Rand

#9. [The judiciary is] the least dangerous branch of our government.

Alexander Bickel

#10. I absolutely love Scotland. I'm always happy there.

Jennifer Saunders

#11. We cannot, by total reliance on law, escape the duty to judge right and wrong ... There are good laws and there are occasionally bad laws, and it conforms to the highest traditions of a free society to offer resistance to bad laws, and to disobey them.

Alexander Bickel

#12. I'm woken sometime later from a vivid dream where I'm obliterating Anna's innocence. It's quite a nice dream, but I'd rather not be having it in public.

Wendy Higgins

#13. If Love his moment overstay,
Hatred's swift repulsions play.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#14. You can't go around making caricatures of the neighbors.

Harper Lee

#15. Fear of something is at the root of hate for others, and hate within will eventually destroy the hater. Keep your thoughts free from hate, and you need have no fear from those who hate you.

George Washington Carver

#16. I grew up Presbyterian. Presbyterians thought the Methodists were wrong. Catholics thought all Protestants were wrong. The Jews thought the Christians were wrong. So, what I'm financing is humility. I want people to realize that you shouldn't think you know it all.

John Templeton

#17. Worry and worship cannot exist in the same space. One always displaces the other. Choose worship.

Louie Giglio

#18. It is better to be divided by truth than united in error.

Bruce Bickel

#19. People may come to our communities because they want to serve the poor; they will only stay once they have discovered that they themselves are poor.

Jean Vanier