Jewish Scholar Quotes

#1. You loved to teach. In time, you tried the rabbinate. And you failed. But a great Jewish scholar said two words you would later invoke many times with many of us: "try again." And you did. Thank God you did.

Mitch Albom

#2. It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality.

Francoise Sagan

#3. If not you, then who? If not now, when?

Hillel First- Century Jewish Scholar

#4. I'd love to work with Michelle Williams. I think that she's incredible. She's such a great actress and I love her.

Abigail Breslin

#5. Holy fu-" he starts then catches himself."Yes,this tithe will be most pleasing to her Goodness." Me and Magnus exchange amused glances.

Mari Mancusi

#6. There is never a Jewish community without its scholars, but where Jews may not be both intellectuals and Jews, they prefer to remain Jews.

Mary Antin

#7. Summary of the Torah, whilst standing on one leg: What is offensive when done to you, do not do it to your neighbor. The rest is commentary, now go and study (it).

Hillel The Elder- First-century Jewish Scholar

#8. Some of the best characters are the most flawed characters.

Brian A. McBride

#9. Beware, lastly, of imagining you shall obtain the end without using the means conducive to it.

John Wesley

#10. The nice thing about putting on your glasses in the dark is that you know you could see better if it were light, but since it is dark the glasses make no difference at all.

Nicholson Baker

#11. The tragedy of life, Howard, is not that the beautiful die young, but that they grow old and mean. It will not happen to me.

Raymond Chandler

#12. We're alive. We have words and shapes and ideas. We will throw them at you when you do not believe. We will throw our love and our hate and our failure and success. We'll split in two right in front of you and be our best and our worst. We'll lie and tell the truth.

A.S. King

#13. Nothing makes it more difficult to help than the intention of doing so.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#14. In 1977 we played America and Europe three times, and Japan - my marriage suffered as a result. My then wife took the kids to Canada to be near her parents.

Phil Collins

#15. The future is all around here.' It's a place, anyplace where we don't exist.

Rae Armantrout

#16. The beginning is always NOW.

Roy Bennett

#17. In the words of Jewish liturgical scholar Lawrence Hoffman, 'Jews do offer freely composed prayers ... But overall, it is the fixed order and content of Jewish prayer that gives it its distinctiveness and that demands the personal commitment to prayer as a discipline.

Lauren F. Winner

#18. Even the imperative to make choice after choice without clear guidance - allegedly the most nerve-wracking part of the profession - isn't exclusive to writing.

Daniel Smith

#19. Sound is what drives my solos, not verbal concepts, I never think 'I'm going to use a Lydian Dominant scale and then go up a half-step', even though that might be exactly what I end up doing ...

John Scofield

#20. To the rest of us the supreme vindication of the scholar's view lies in their invincible allegiance to the Jewish heritage - a steadfastness that has been matched only by that of their rescuers.

Henrietta Szold

#21. Quite possibly the only infinite power in the universe may be the human capacity for self-deception.

Michel Templet