Rabbi Wisdom Quotes

#1. MOANING MYRTLE: What did you call me? Do I moan? Am I moaning now? AM I? AM I? SCORPIUS: No, I didn't mean . . . MOANING MYRTLE: What's my name? SCORPIUS: Myrtle. MOANING MYRTLE: Exactly - Myrtle. Myrtle Elizabeth Warren - a pretty name - my name - no need for the moaning.

J.K. Rowling

#2. I played football all my life throughout high school and ran track.

Matt Cohen

#3. That this blue exists makes my life a remarkable one, just to have seen it. To have seen such beautiful things. To find oneself placed in their midst. Choiceless.

Maggie Nelson

#4. Silence is the fence around wisdom

Rabbi Akiva

#5. I did a pilot for a show about community support officers, and all the community support officers were pleased that we didn't portray them as idiots.

Rhys Thomas

#6. Poverty has a way of taking the edge off principles. Hunger can blunt them altogether.

Paula Brackston

#7. To judge a man's character by only one of its manifestations is like judging the sea by a jugful of its water.

Paul Eldridge

#8. 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

#9. Sit quietly and listen for a voice that will say, "Be more silent." As that happens, your soul starts to revive.

Rumi

#10. Regulation of derivatives transactions that are privately negotiated by professionals is unnecessary.

Alan Greenspan

#11. I always gravitate towards anything from Ireland. With Irish lit, I love the use of language, but also in many instances, the Irish writers are writing about people and circumstances that I can relate to.

Daniel Woodrell

#12. Each generation of rabbis is necessarily less perfect than the rabbis that came before, since each generation is more removed from the perfection of the Garden. Therefore, no rabbi is allowed to overturn any of his forebears' wisdom, since they are all, by definition, smarter than him.

Cory Doctorow

#13. New media companies look remarkably like the old ones they aspire to replace: male, pale, and privileged.

Astra Taylor

#14. She went from opera, park, assembly, play,
To morning walks, and prayers three hours a day.
To part her time 'twixt reading and bohea,
To muse, and spill her solitary tea,
Or o'er cold coffee trifle with the spoon,
Count the slow clock, and dine exact at noon.

Alexander Pope

#15. Rabbi Elazar ben Azariah said, "Where there is no money, there is no learning." The rabbis explain that unless people's stomachs are full and satisfied, they cannot study, grow spiritually, and do good works.

H.W. Charles

#16. That's what I want them to know. Saying thank you, when you really mean it, when you remember what someone done for you

Kathryn Stockett

#17. Come on people! Somebody disagree with me! How can we learn anything if no one will disagree?" Rabbi Stern

Athol Dickson

#18. My life revolves around my writing, my wife and my son.

James Patterson

#19. Rabbi Kushner writes from a wealth of Jewish wisdom and pastoral devotion, but his theology is, I find, is wholly in keeping with contemporary Christian thought. So far as there is an answer to the conflict between the goodness of God and the bitterness of suffering, this is it

Gerald Priestland

#20. One rabbi compared wise men studying the law to children tossing a ball to one another: a first sage said the meaning was this, another said the meaning was that, one gave his opinion, another begged to differ.

Israel Shenker

#21. A fence to wisdom is silence.

Rabbi Akiva

#22. What is the society we wish to protect? Is it the society of complete surveillance for the commonwealth? Is this the wealth we seek to have in common - optimal security at the cost of maximal surveillance?

Tom Stoppard