Kippur Quotes

#1. I know some people say that high fashion should not be worn at synagogue. I, on the other hand, think that it is of the utmost importance that the Goldbergs from down the street see you in the new Chanel Fall 2010 Yom Kippur line.

Rachel Zoe

#2. In the matrimonial life of the Jewish male every day is Yom Kippur.

Howard Jacobson

#3. On Yom Kippur, it is not enough for one to feel sorry for the foul deeds one has done. To achieve forgiveness, one must go to the injured parties and make amends.

Daniel Silva

#4. I was the kind of Jew who'd be in a bar, somebody would say it's Yom Kippur, and I'd go, 'Really?'

Jill Soloway

#5. Yon Kippur. Greatest Jewish holiday ever. The Jewish day of attonement. You don't ear for one day, all your sins for the year are wiped clean. Beat that with your little Lent. What is Lent? Forty days of absolution. Forty days to one day. Even in sin you're paying retail.

Jon Stewart

#6. Every Yom Kippur, Jewish tradition requires a strict spiritual inventory. You aren't supposed to just sit around feeling guilty, but to take action in the real world to set things right.

Naomi Wolf

#7. I'm of Russian-Jewish background. Like many Soviet Jews, my parents were engineers. My family migrated from Ukraine to Israel when I was six. They arrived in Israel with very little ... Within a year of arriving in Israel, the Yom Kippur War happened.

Sasha Roiz

#8. But how could Yoel, of all people, not realize that Gush Emunim, with its vision of unrestrained power and occupation, was repeating the very sin of arrogance that had led to Yom Kippur?

Yossi Klein Halevi

#9. In the Judaeo-Christian tradition all this is well known, and incorporated into the sacraments of the Roman Catholic Church as well as the rituals and liturgy of Yom Kippur.

Roger Scruton

#10. People can't function without forgiveness. It's why the Catholics have confession and the Jews have Yom Kippur. You recognize your failings, and you move on.

Simon Wood

#11. Until the Yom Kippur War, in 1973, until then Israel didn't have a chance but to fight for her life. We were attacked five times, outgunned, outnumbered, on a small piece of land, and our main challenge was to remain alive.

Shimon Peres

#12. It hinges on oil. Europeans feel they handled the boycott after the Yom Kippur War [1973] very badly. The Arabs need to sell oil; otherwise they cannot live.

Manfred Gerstenfeld

#13. Unless you're Stephen King or Joyce Carol Oates, no one's going to recognize you on the street, and you're promoting your book, not yourself.

Debra Dean

#14. Lord lead us to the right places.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#15. Step out of the history that is holding you back. Step into the new story you are willing to create.

Oprah Winfrey

#16. I've survived broken hearts. You will, too. They're all worth it when you find the real thing. The right one.

M. Leighton

#17. How dare the world define beauty. God defined beauty when he made you! You are beautiful, you are a true beauty just the way you are!

Rachel Hamilton

#18. My parents are responsible for the two things I like doing most - driving and magic tricks. They bought me my first go-kart and a magician's kit.

Fernando Alonso

#19. That Loor's a handful, she is. - Spader (Black Water)

D.J. MacHale

#20. I was very studious.

Kesha

#21. I always remember responding very emotionally to film. I had a lot of lonely time on my hands because I wasn't really the best-looking kid in my town and I sort of pined after girls. I had to sort of immerse myself in the arts because girls weren't particularly interested in me.

McG

#22. I'm proud to be Archie's son. Being a quarterback, I had my mentor and hero living in the same house.

Peyton Manning

#23. I come from the bottom of the ladder. I'm from Norwich. Not many people seem to know about it.

Sam Claflin

#24. There are only two conditions where you're allowed to wake up a woman on a lie-in: it's snowing or the death of a celebrity.

Michael McIntyre

#25. High-profile industry disruptions such as steel or car plant closures attract much media and political attention.

Anthony Pratt

#26. I want to promote positivity.

Michael Franti

#27. Ninety-seven saint days a year wouldn't affect the theater, but two Yom Kippurs would ruin it.

Brendan Behan

#28. The very concept of imitation is suspect to begin with (if children are general imitators, why don't they imitate their parents' habit of sitting quietly in airplanes?),

Steven Pinker