Emil Fackenheim Quotes

#1. Its true it's considered important to be attractive and giving and intelligent and popular, but it is even more important to let all this go to give others a chance. Because that's what makes you who you are, that's what makes you 'beautiful'.

Kanika Bankhad

#2. People assume I'm out there having this great life, but money doesn't erase the pain. When you're young you barrel through life, making choices without thinking of repercussions. A few years down the line, you wake up in a certain place and wonder how the hell you got there.

Jennifer Lopez

#3. You deserve so much more than hiding out in high school basements. You don't deserve to be someone's secret, Ashlyn. You deserve to be the chorus to a person's favourite song. You deserve to be the dedication in their favourite book.

Brittainy C. Cherry

#4. It's not virtual reality until you can be tortured to death in it.

Andrew Plotkin

#5. I was thinking about dying the other day the death thought came while I was sitting on the toilet peeing - that's where I have my most contemplative thoughts.

Madonna Ciccone

#6. The Auschwitz praxis was based on a new principle: for one portion of mankind, existence itself is a crime, punishable by humiliation, torture, and death. And the new world produced by this praxis included two kinds of inhabitants, those who were given the "punishment" and those who administered it.

Emil Fackenheim

#7. Superstition is that which we know in our minds to be rubbish. Faith is that which we hope in our hearts to be true.

R.A. Mathis

#8. The west coast is a mecca for wild hearts, wild minds, wild spirits and I'm a WMD - I've got so much energy I'm about to explode.

Shannon Mullen

#9. That seems to be the way of things. Everyone takes, everyone gives. Life is like that.

Hermann Hesse

#10. Then the bow orchestra began to play an apocalyptically beautiful canon, one of those pieces in which, surely, the composer simply transcribed what was given, and trembled in awe of the hand that was guiding him.

Mark Helprin

#11. To those of you who are enslaved by your past, may my story set you free. For youth is innocent and its beauty is to always be cherished.

Nancy B. Brewer

#12. It may be the case that [post-Holocaust] the authentic Jewish
agnostic and the authentic Jewish believer are closer than at
any previous time.

Emil Fackenheim

#13. Argentina won't be at Euro 2000 because they're from South America.

Kevin Keegan

#14. I have a low tolerance for mediocrity in music and life. I'm into pain and joy and the in-between doesn't interest me.

Steve Earle

#15. For a while I just couldn't imagine that there was a place for me in nonfiction. I looked around at what we were calling nonfiction and I thought, "Maybe you do have to go to poetry in order to do this other weird thing in nonfiction."

John D'Agata

#16. When it comes to making laws that protect the public from the financial services industry, Congress has done a progressively worse job since the Pecora Commission hearings of the early 1930s, which led to Congress taking bold steps to regulate banking and securities firms in 1933 and 1934.

Gary Weiss

#17. Do not too many believe no zeal to be spiritual but what is censorious or vindictive? Whereas no zeal is spiritual that is not also charitable.

Thomas Sprat