Quotes About Tolan

#1. I was working with Peter Tolan, who was my writing partner on those two [Rescue Me and The Job], and he did The Larry Sanders Show with Garry Shandling, and he always said that the second season is better because you know the actors.

Denis Leary

#2. The act of planting was thus an act of faith and patience.

Sandy Tolan

#3. You don't have the moral right to hold one child back to make another child feel better.

Stephanie S. Tolan

#4. The world is ruled by butterflies adding to their weapon piles. Imagine what your taxes buy. We hardly ever try.

Sting

#5. The only justification we have to look down on someone is because we are about to pick him up.

Jesse Jackson

#6. I have ideas written down some places, but usually I can't find them. I'm not very organized.

Charlie Kaufman

#7. My soul may be returned to the heavens but my heart will remain with you for all eternity.

Richard Dominguez

#8. The Lemon Tree
Important to read for those who care about the conflict between Palistinians and jews

Sandy Tolan

#9. I don't think there's a single dumbass thing I've done in my adult life that I didn't know was a dumbass thing to do while I was doing it. Even when I justified it to myself - as I did every damn time - the truest part of me knew I was doing the wrong thing. Always.

Cheryl Strayed

#10. Tomorrow could be just few steps away - a dream, yesterday the fucking nightmare...

Deyth Banger

#11. By now the dream of immediate return had transformed into the reality of long-term struggle. The Palestinians had begun to understand that their return would not come about through diplomatic pressure.

Sandy Tolan

#12. understanding can only come from a recognition of each other's history.

Sandy Tolan

#13. Some of the very greatest gifts bring an inevitable downside which you cannot "cure" without curing the gift at the same time.

Stephanie S. Tolan

#14. Sketchy black van? Weird stalking of my house? What are you going to do next, offer me some candy?

Hannah Harrington

#15. If national interest comes before our common humanity," Dalia said, "then there is no hope for redemption, there is no hope for healing, there is no hope for transformation, there is no hope for anything!" One

Sandy Tolan

#16. Life is short. Everyone's forever planning for the future. No one lives in the moment anymore.

Dick Houston

#17. Deciding to kiss Jake is like standing on the edge of a pool, staring down and wanting to take the leap, but fearing how cold the water will be.
I hold my breath and jump.

Hannah Harrington

#18. Everywhere immigrants have enriched and strengthened the fabric of American life.

John F. Kennedy

#19. Eretz Yisrael (Land of Israel) alongside Bashir's love of Arde Falastin (Land of Palestine).

Sandy Tolan

#20. How do we know imagination isn't just a different way of knowing something? A message from outside.

Stephanie S. Tolan

#21. It was a universal welcome - Make yourself at home; Mi casa es su casa; Ahlan wa-sahlan; Baruch habah

Sandy Tolan

#22. Everyone I looked at, their whole lives, did exactly what they were supposed to do
without even questioning it, without even wondering if they could
do something different.

Catherine Gilbert Murdock

#23. Just do this because it's the thing in front of you.

Kathleen Tolan

#24. Education is an adventurous quest for the meaning of life, involving an ability to think things through.
Z. Applewhite.

Stephanie S. Tolan

#25. Part book about creativity, part compendium of useful tidbits, quotations and research results, and part annotated bibliography, this is a wildly useful and highly entertaining resource.

Stephanie S. Tolan

#26. Despite two millennia of Christian apologetics, the fact is that belief in a dying and rising messiah simply did not exist in Judaism.

Reza Aslan

#27. There's no denying the fact he is really, really good-looking, in this rakish, edgy, badass, I-just-rolled-out-of-bed-and-screw-you-I-don't-need-a-mirror kind of way.

Hannah Harrington

#28. The ground of being is the ground of our being, and when we simply turn outward, we see all of these little problems here and there. But, if we look inward, we see that we are the source of them all.

Joseph Campbell