Rabbinic Literature Quotes

#1. Rabbinic literature, though it includes plenty of material from before AD 135, tends to see everything in the light, not of a continuing story about God and Israel within the ongoing flow of world history, but of the much thinner, often dehistoricized world of Torah-piety.

N. T. Wright

#2. All the questions discussed in the Talmud and related rabbinic literature are normative questions: either they are questions of what one is to think or what one is to do. Every prescribed thought has some practical implication; every prescribed act has some theoretical implication.

David Novak

#3. Judaism has always been a strong interest of mine. My two sons speak Hebrew and are familiar with the scriptures and with rabbinic literature. This is the way we live.

Herman Wouk

#4. It's okay to be proud of your good English. But don't be proud of being poor at your Mother tongue. Only the scum of the earth do that.

Manasa Rao

#5. Pessimists fear becoming the dupes of Hope. Optimists enjoy Hope's company, and consider being duped no great matter.

Mason Cooley

#6. It's no use filling your pocket with money if you have got a hole in the corner.

George Eliot

#7. The secret of success is constancy to purpose.

Benjamin Disraeli

#8. As we rise to meet the challenges that are a natural part of living, we awaken to our many undiscovered gifts, to our inner power and our purpose.

Susan L. Taylor

#9. We will respond to the threat of climate change

Barack Obama

#10. If you want to fulfil your dreams, you don't walk with chickens you soar with eagles.

Euginia Herlihy

#11. Keep your head up and your hopes high, friend; anything is possible.

S.R. Crawford

#12. I don't mind anything that's written about me, as long as it's not true.

Dorothy Parker

#13. In your heart I found another ocean, another sky. I found another whole new world.

Subhan Zein

#14. All breathing beings are spiritual; this includes everyone who breathes, whether they are animals or humans, carnivores or vegetarians.

Sharon Gannon

#15. I have never made a game that wasn't explicitly about empowering players to tell their own story.

Warren Spector