Kook Quotes

#1. I respect your right to hold your religious beliefs, and if they help you, I think that's great. I would, however, like to inform you that you are a raving kook.

Scott Dikkers

#2. Had that poor Reilly kook really been proud of Levy Pants? He had always said that he was. That was one good sign of his insanity.

John Kennedy Toole

#3. I've always wanted to play a normal woman, and I think I have been offered these parts where I play a kook because I'm not the idea of what a normal woman is.

Jenny Slate

#4. My basic mistake in 'The World's Greatest Lover' was that I made the leading character a neurotic kook and sent him to Hollywood. I should have made him a perfectly normal, sane, ordinary person, and sent him to Hollywood. The audience identifies with the lead character.

Gene Wilder

#5. When a man gets up to speak, people listen then look. When a woman gets up, people kook; then, if they like what they see, they listen.

Pauline Frederick

#6. The only thing most people do better than anyone else is read their own handwriting.

John Adams

#7. There are free men with the spirit of a slave, and slaves whose spirit is full of freedom. He who is true to his inner self is a free man, while he whose entire life is merely a stage for what is good and beautiful in the eyes of others, is a slave.

Abraham Isaac Kook

#8. She looks really happy."
"Everyone looks happy on Facebook."
"I know, right? What's up with that?

Harlan Coben

#9. I've wanted to be an actress for as long as I can remember, and I can say I was almost born in the theatre. My mum went into labour while she was watching the Nut-Cracker Suite in New York - apparently I was kicking like mad.

Sienna Miller

#10. All the troubles of the world, especially the spiritual, such as grief, impatience, disillusionment, despair, the truly basic troubles of man-they came about only because of the failure to view clearly the majesty of God.

Abraham Isaac Kook

#11. Contemplate the wonders of creation, the Divine dimension of their being, not as a dim configuration that is presented to you from a distance, but as the reality in which you live.

Abraham Isaac Kook

#12. Our generation is wonderful generation, full of wonder. It's very hard to find an example of it in all our history. Composed of contradictions - light and darkness mixed.

Abraham Isaac Kook

#13. We also pass a farmer in his yard, power-washing a donkey with a high-pressure hose.

Simon Armitage

#14. I don't speak because I have the power to speak; I speak because I don't have the power to remain silent.

Abraham Isaac Kook

#15. The Moon may not be quite as appealing as Mars, but it's still a complex and poorly understood world, with many questions still unanswered.

Henry Spencer

#16. We had to fight the enemy without in the Falklands. We always have to be aware of the enemy within, which is much more difficult to fight and more dangerous to liberty.

Margaret Thatcher

#17. I went to a regular school ... education kept me sane.

Romeo Miller

#18. People always laugh, because they don't expect words like shit to come one of someone so petite, someone with a voice so quiet, so sweet.

Stephanie Perkins

#19. His warrior's eyes met hers. "You're the reason. My compass home points toward you.

Natasza Waters

#20. When the spirit shines, even foggy skies make pleasant light.

Abraham Isaac Kook

#21. You didn't show up ready enough, or fast enough, or openly enough for the idea to take hold within you and complete itself. Therefore, the idea went hunting for a new partner, and somebody else got to make the thing.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#22. The Second Temple was destroyed because of causeless hatred. Perhaps the Third will be rebuilt because of causeless love.

Abraham Isaac Kook

#23. The thought of a happiness that comes from outside the person, brings him sadness. But the recognition in the value of one's will and the freedom granted by its uplifting, brings great joy.

Abraham Isaac Kook

#24. The good will is all - and all the talents are ways to fulfill it.

Abraham Isaac Kook

#25. Planned Parenthood should absolutely be defunded. I mean if you look at what's going on with that, it's terrible. And many other things should be defunded and many things should be cut.

Donald Trump

#26. We are great and our faults are great and therefore our problems great and great are our consolations.

Abraham Isaac Kook

#27. The desire to be good to all with no restrictions - not in the quantity of those to whom we are good nor in the quality of the good we perform - that is the inner nucleus of the essence of the soul of Israel.

Abraham Isaac Kook

#28. This is how we grow: not up, but out, like trees
swelling to encompass all these stories, the promises and lies and bribes and habits.

Lauren Oliver

#29. The higher the truth, the simpler it is.

Abraham Isaac Kook

#30. The purely righteous do not complain of the dark, but increase the light; they do not complain of evil, but increase justice; they do not complain of heresy, but increase faith; they do not complain of ignorance, but increase wisdom.

Abraham Isaac Kook

#31. A tiny remnant of a big thing is better than a whole little thing.

Abraham Isaac Kook

#32. We forgot we have Holy Body not less than our Holy Spirit.

Abraham Isaac Kook

#33. Many times one is forced to descend to deep, dark regions, in order to find there the greatest, noblest and freest light.

Abraham Isaac Kook

#34. If it's true that our species is alone in the universe, then I'd have to say the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little.

George Carlin

#35. If we cannot be happy and powerful and prey on others, we invent conscience and prey on ourselves.

Elbert Hubbard

#36. When one looks truly at the good side of everyone, others come to love him very naturally, and he does not need even a speck of flattery.

Abraham Isaac Kook