Rabbi Akiva Quotes

#1. Of all the rabbinic sages of antiquity, perhaps none was more influential or famous than Rabbi Akiva.

Meir Soloveichik

#2. The paper burns, but the words fly away.

Rabbi Akiva

#3. No outside events can disturb your inner peace.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#4. I didn't want to do 'The Fluffy Puppy Learns to Hold Hands!' or 'Kitty Gets a Box to Play In!' There's a place for that for the little ones - some kids need that stuff. But I'm too dark and sarcastic.

Drew Daywalt

#5. Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.

Amos Bronson Alcott

#6. Jesting and levity lead a man to lewdness.

Rabbi Akiva

#7. Diversity really means becoming complete as human beings - all of us. We learn from each other. If you're missing on that stage, we learn less. We all need to be on that stage.

Juan Felipe Herrera

#8. Putting forward your positive energy connects you back to basic human values which we all share. Good Deeds Day shows that no matter the size of the gesture, a smile that brightens someone else's day or volunteering in your community, we can all take active part in making a difference.

Shari Arison

#9. Was she naked?" Lasher said. "To the waist," Cotsakis said. "From which direction?" Lasher said.

Don DeLillo

#10. I love my country enough to risk its wrath by drawing attention to the negative things we don't always want to see. And that can be risky and you have to pay for that. (Ramon Estevez) on Inside the Actor's Studio

Martin Sheen

#11. Everything is foreseen, yet freedom of choice is granted.

Rabbi Akiva

#12. Silence is the fence around wisdom

Rabbi Akiva

#13. Like a twisted olive tree in its 500th year, giving then its finest fruit, is man. How can he give forth wisdom until he has been crushed and turned in the Hand of God.

Rabbi Akiva

#14. Under the shadow of earthly disappointment, all unconscious to ourselves, our Divine Redeemer is walking by our side.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

#15. He who remains unmarried impairs the divine image.

Rabbi Akiva

#16. Before you taste anything, recite a blessing.

Rabbi Akiva

#17. There is no foreground or background, only a continuity of interlacing relationships

Lyonel Feininger

#18. If a rock, though extremely hard, can be hollowed out by water, how much more so should it be possible for The Light, which is compared to water, to change my heart. I will begin to study it, and try to become a scholar of The Light.

Rabbi Akiva

#19. I didn't have any agenda or plan when I started writing stuff.

David Byrne

#20. Why was love so easy for some people and so hard for others?

Lisa Kleypas

#21. Beloved is man, for he was created in the image of God. Beloved are Israel, for they were called children of God. Beloved are Israel, for unto them was given the desirable Torah

Rabbi Akiva

#22. My parents wanted to light my artistic candle. But over time, the definition of 'the arts' began to stretch. And as I got older, they suddenly realized, Oh, my God, we're the parents of Iggy Pop.

Iggy Pop

#23. Don't be so shocked. Friends usually spend time together." My tone added the of course. "Ah, you're cross with me because I've been engaged all week, aren't you? I didn't mean to neglect our friendship, America.

Kiera Cass

#24. A fence to wisdom is silence.

Rabbi Akiva

#25. In the beginning, sin is like a thread of a spider's web. But in the end, it becomes like the cable of a ship.

Rabbi Akiva