Jacob Schiff Quotes

#1. I don't think there is such a definition of a perfect family, but I do think that our marriages are in crisis. Our families are in crisis. And I think the African-American family is at one of the worst stages it's been at in a very long time in this country. Fatherlessness is rampant.

Leah Ward Sears

#2. Faith is building on what you know is here, so you can reach what you know is there.

Cullen Hightower

#3. When you look at food as an ethical issue in the Christian tradition, you don't find very much about it. You don't find, as you do in the Jewish or Islamic or Hindu traditions, a lot of restrictions saying you can eat this but you can't eat that.

Peter Singer

#4. Before, I was always trying to make my relationships work by means of willpower and forced affability. This time I didn't have to strive for anything. A quality of ease spread over us.

Charles Baxter

#5. Living is art.
Breathing and heart beating is music.
Seeing is painting the world with our eyes.
Touching is sculpting the shape of everything.
Life is the most intense art of all.

Jacob Nordby

#6. In a democracy, the well-being, individuality and happiness of every citizen is important for the overall prosperity, peace and happiness of the nation.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

#7. The surplus wealth we have gained to some extent at least belongs to our fellow beings; we are only the temporary custodians of our fortunes, and let us be careful that no just complaint can be made against our stewardship.

Jacob Schiff

#8. The universe will fill your cup ... if you carry a big cup, a little cup, or a thimble!

Sonia Choquette

#9. In describing one way of going mad, I shall try to show that there is a comprehensible transition from the sane schizoid way of being-in-the-world to a psychotic way of being-in-the-world.

R.D. Laing

#10. I don't think you'll ever have a perfect world because we humans are prone to error, and so we're always in search of an upgrade.

Henry Rollins

#11. If the Czar will not accord our people these desired liberties, then a revolution will bring about a republic which will assure us our rights.

Jacob Schiff

#12. Unless we have a Central Bank with adequate control of credit resources, this country is going to undergo the most severe and far reaching money panic in its history.

Jacob Schiff

#13. She believed in herself maybe more than other people believed in God or the devil or Heaven or Hell.

John Corey Whaley