Top 100 Saul's Quotes
#1. Man determines to dictate your turn, but God determines your time. It was Saul's turn, but it was David's time. Don't wait for your turn, wait for your time.
Lee M. Sapp
#2. Saul fell upon his sword to avoid suffering. Jesus stretched himself upon the cross to take away ours.
Saul's suicide cheated his enemies. Jesus' sacrifice cheated death.
Lisa Bevere
#3. Saul's vitals were not human, but familiar:
he never told me he was from another world:
I never told him I was from his future.
Joe Haldeman
#4. You ever heard that bit about don't look a gift horse in the mouth?"
"I've heard it. Although the Trojans would have fared better with Athens if they had ignored that advice."
I had to look up that reference when I got back to Saul's.
Rysa Walker
#5. Inevitably, Saul's faraway heart would turn to faraway actions.
Beth Moore
#6. It's goodbye to reality when love sets in.
Saul Bellow
#7. The first Romanov ruler was just 16 when he was crowned Tsar Michael I in Moscow in 1613, thus ending the 'Time of Troubles' sparked by Ivan the Terrible's death.
Saul David
#8. I leave these speculations to others. It's quite possible that my work represents a search for beauty in the most prosaic and ordinary places. One doesn't have to be in some faraway dreamland in order to find beauty.
Saul Leiter
#9. No, the truth must be something we understand at once, without an introduction or explanation, but so common and familiar that we don't always realize it's around us.
Saul Bellow
#10. Society is what beats me. Alone I can be pretty good, but let me go among people and there's the devil to pay.
Saul Bellow
#11. You have to fight for your life. That's the chief condition on which you hold it.
Saul Bellow
#12. The hour that burst the spirit's sleep...
Saul Bellow
#13. They scooped out our insides, Saul. We're not responsible for that. We're not responsible for what happened to us. None of us are. Fred said. But our healing
that's up to us. That's what saved me. Knowing it was my game.
Richard Wagamese
#14. Death is going to take the boundaries away from us, that we should no more be persons. That's what death is about. When that is what life also wants to be about, how can you feel except rebellious?
Saul Bellow
#15. To rip off a piece of lover's temper was a pleasure in her deepest vein of enjoyment.
Saul Bellow
#16. It's not up to me ... to make the world consistent.
Saul Bellow
#17. The life of every citizen is becoming a business. This, it seems to me, is one of the worst interpretations of the meaning of human life history has ever seen. Man's life is not a business.
Saul Bellow
#18. Unfortunately, I haven't thought sufficiently about art. What I never realized - and it's really stupid - is the art world is the art world because all these thousands of famous and not-famous artists do things, over centuries. This hadn't occurred to me.
Peter Saul
#19. The citizen's job is to be rude - to pierce the comfort of professional intercourse by boorish expressions of doubt.
John Ralston Saul
#20. You might expect gravity would slow it down, but it's just expanding faster and faster.
Saul Perlmutter
#21. We can take more time and interest, and give more attention to our personal health than a hired professional can. We have learned to go get medical help, not to give it. We have learned to relay our body's needs to another, not to provide them ourselves.
Andrew Saul
#22. You can always tell you're in deep trouble when people start thinking money's real.
John Ralston Saul
#23. Punk rock meditation, that's what keeps it going. That's how I let go, you know. It's exactly what I do, I blast it and run around crazy banging my head on the wall.
Saul Williams
#24. The despair is there; now it's up to us to go in and rub raw the sores of discontent, galvanize them for radical social change.
Saul Alinsky
#25. It's no small matter to become rich and famous by saying exactly what you think - to say it in your own words, without compromise.
Saul Bellow
#26. In the depths of a man's being there was something that responded with a quack to such perfume. Quack!
Saul Bellow
#27. Yes, these business people have great energy. There's a question as to what's burned to produce it and what things we can and can't burn.
Saul Bellow
#28. Some big insect flew in and began walking on the table. I don't know what insect it was, but it was brown, shining, and rich in structures. In the city the big universal chain of insects gets thin, but where there's a leaf or two it'll be represented.
Saul Bellow
#29. Andrew Saul is John Hall in a business suit. He's wrong on the war, on national security, immigration, abortion. He's Sue Kelly all over again.
Andrew Saul
#30. I don't really believe in writer's block or anything like that. If I'm not feeling words, I may pick up an instrument and play with sounds or delve into different types of creativity and expression.
Saul Williams
#31. I don't know exactly how it's done. I let it alone a good deal.
Saul Bellow
#32. A man may say, "From now on I'm going to speak the truth." But the truth hears him and runs away and hides before he's even done speaking.
Saul Bellow
#33. That's so often what it is with machinery: be somewhat in doubt and it carries the decision.
Saul Bellow
#34. Few remember that the battle of Rorke's Drift was fought on the same day that the British Army suffered its most humiliating defeat at nearby Isandlwana.
Saul David
#35. I want to make beautiful things, even if nobody cares, as opposed to ugly things. That's my intent.
Saul Bass
#37. If you ask almost any of them, 'Do you stand behind your theory? Is this the answer?' I think almost everyone would say, 'No, no, no. I'm just trying to expand the range of possibilities.' We really don't know what's going on.
Saul Perlmutter
#38. There's a small group of people always watching me to make sure I'm still offending.
Peter Saul
#39. It's not the rules everywhere, you know? That's not the rules everywhere - that things have to be dumbed down in order to become massively popular. And that hasn't always been the rule, even in America.
Saul Williams
#40. There's the big advantage of backwardness. By the time the latest ideas reach Chicago, they're worn thin and easy to see through. You don't have to bother with them and it saves lots of trouble.
Saul Bellow
#41. When a man's breast feels like a cage from which all the dark birds have flown - he is free, he is light. And he longs to have his vultures back again. He wants his customary struggles, his nameless, empty works, his anger, his afflictions and his sins.
Saul Bellow
#42. I've never been overwhelmed with a desire to become famous. It's not that I didn't want to have my work appreciated, but for some reason - maybe it's because my father disapproved of almost everything I did - in some secret place in my being was a desire to avoid success.
Saul Leiter
#43. If you think about it long enough, you'll see that it's obvious.
Saul Gorn
#44. Passion moves freely across borders, speaks every language, and flourishes in every culture. The movement of passion is the most gratifying satisfaction in any moviemaker's life.
Saul Zaentz
#45. What's wrong with hip-hop is the system that controls the definition of it. There needs to be more balance on the airwaves.
Saul Williams
#46. There's the most extraordinary, unheard of poetry buried in America, but none of the conventional means known to culture can even begin to extract it...the agony is too deep, the disorder too big for art enterprises undertaken in the old way.
Saul Bellow
#47. I'm into using acrylic, in a complicated kind of way: Making it just as good as oil paint - better, maybe. It's odd - when I started out, acrylic was for children, pretty much. It was a cheaper paint. It wasn't supposed to look very good or last very long.
Peter Saul
#48. Death discredits. Survival is the whole success. The voice of the dead goes away. There isn't any memory. The power that's established fills the earth and destiny is whatever survives, so whatever is is right.
Saul Bellow
#49. Even worse is the discovery that one has been living out certain greeting-card sentiments, with ribbons of middle-class virtue tied in a bow around one's heart.
Saul Bellow
#50. The hero is the person who's afraid to run away.
Saul Williams
#51. This new understanding of processes on Europa would not have been possible without the foundation of the last 20 years of observations over Earth's ice sheets and floating ice shelves.
Saul Perlmutter
#52. I think we fool ourselves and really negate a great deal of history if we think that the oral history of poetry is shorter than the written history of poetry. It's not true. Poetry has a longer oral tradition than it does written.
Saul Williams
#53. The MC that we love are usually the ones that we consider be kinda heartless, like 50 Cent. That's pretty much the prowess and power of an MC. That's what sells.
Saul Williams
#54. In the beginning the organizer's first job is to create the issues or problems.
Saul D. Alinsky
#56. The key to making things understandable is to understand what it's like not to understand.
Richard Saul Wurman
#57. So it's possible that someday, by understanding a little bit more about how the world works, it will come back to help us in some other way that will be surprising.
Saul Perlmutter
#58. It really is a nice theory. The only defect I think it has is probably common to all philosophical theories. It's wrong.
Saul Kripke
#59. There's no doubt in my mind that 'Slam' is going to be huge. It's a film about the power of language. People are going to see this and get blown away.
Saul Williams
#60. Still women- women. They do themselves more credit, there's more reality in women. They live closer to their nature. They have to. It's more with them. They have the breasts. They see their blood, and it does them good, while men are led to be vainer.
Saul Bellow
#61. All I want is to be left alone. That's why I have that fence. It's not only to keep the critters in. It's to keep people out.
John Saul
#62. Better safe than sorry. That's my motto.
Saul
#63. The anchor man thrown overboard has simply rooted us in history's repeating cycle
Saul Williams
#64. Marx was fortunate to have been born eighty years before Walt Disney. Disney also promised a child's paradise and unlike Marx, delivered on his promise.
John Ralston Saul
#65. It's the way of the world, kid. Go with the winner.
Saul
#66. For God's sake,' the dog is saying, 'open the universe a little more!
Saul Bellow
#67. Suffering often changes our ambitions. Before his conversion, Saul cared primarily about his reputation and perfecting his religiosity. The transformed Paul left reputation behind and instead boasted in weakness, longing to suffer and share in Christ's death
Anonymous
#68. The nature of process, to one degree or another, involves failure. You have at it. It doesn't work. You keep pushing. It gets better. But it's not good. It gets worse. You got at it again. Then you desperately stab at it, believing "this isn't going to work." And it does!
Saul Bass
#69. My real name's McGill. The Jew thing I just do for the homeboys. They all want a pipe-hitting member of the tribe, so to speak.
Saul
#70. We need total health more than medically approved health. Our wellness should not be limited to our doctor's experience, but enhanced by our own experience.
Andrew Saul
#71. You don't know the meaning of true love if you think it can be deliberately selected. You just love, that's all. A natural force, irresistible.
Saul Bellow
#72. I wish there were easy answers to people's health questions. There aren't. There are answers, all right, but they are not easy.
Andrew Saul
#73. Perhaps the essence of tradition, it's ultimate justification, is to comfort, to bring a small measure of dreams, a brief instance of illusion, to a moment when every real avenue of escape is cut off, when there is no longer any recourse.
Saul Friedlander
#74. I think it's a mistake where rap music is these days. It doesn't seem to be able to look out of the ghetto and that's ultimately unfortunate, because it defines our limitations.
Saul Williams
#75. America's corporations are a spiritual slum, and their arrogance is the major threat to our future as a free society.
Saul Alinsky
#76. Once again it is demonstrated that people do not love their chains or their jailers,-and that the aspiration for a civilized life - that "universal eligibility to be noble," as Saul Bellow's Augie March so imperishably phrases it - is proper and common to all.
Christopher Hitchens
#77. I think there's an infinite number of cool technology sports that should exist that don't.
Saul Griffith
#78. In the early hours of 16 December 1944, the Germans launched their last great offensive of the Second World War against weakly held U.S. positions in the Ardennes Forest, the site of their original Blitzkrieg success against the French in 1940.
Saul David
#79. Look here, because they were born you think they have to turn out to be men? That's just an old-fashioned idea. And who tells them that? A big organization. One more big organization. A big organization makes dough or it doesn't last. If it makes dough it's for dough.
Saul Bellow
#80. It's no disgrace to be a private, you know. Socrates was a plain foot soldier, a hoplite.
Saul Bellow
#81. I used to have weird practices in crowded used-book stores in New York where I'd go in and just stomp my foot and see what fell from the shelf. And of course, because it's an unexpected encounter, there's always some magic that comes from it.
Saul Williams
#82. I wish my dead days would quit bothering me and leave me alone. The bad stuff keeps coming back, and it's the worst rhythm there is. The repetition of a man's bad self, that's the worst suffering that's ever been known.
Saul Bellow
#83. I want to tell you, don't marry suffering. Some people do. They get married to it, and sleep and eat together, just as husband and wife. If they go with joy they think it's adultery.
Saul Bellow
#84. Though blue sky and the road's yellow dust and the green of the nearing oasis were all snuffed out, he (newly converted Saul) did not miss them. Light suffused his blinded eyes, his mind.
John Charles Pollock
#85. One's concern with the ethics of means and ends varies inversely with one's personal interest in the issue.
Saul Alinsky
#86. The lesson of an American life like my father's ... is that achievements are compatible with decency (112).
Saul Bellow
#87. It was always important to me to be that kid who could rock the party as well as rock the English professor's mind.
Saul Williams
#88. My father's a preacher, my mother's a teacher, thus ... I rhyme.
Saul Williams
#89. Why shouldn't rap be esoteric, able to take in current events, history and criticism? I guess it's this old idea of containment - that rappers, because they're black, can't and shouldn't aspire to look outside the ghetto for influence.
Saul Williams
#90. Time is always relative.... For the terminally ill, six months are a lifetime, and not a very long one. To a three-year-old waiting for Christmas, it's an eternity so distant it's not even worth thinking about.
John Saul
#91. And then he went from Saul to Paul, from being the best at being a Jew to being the best at being a Christian. Only, at some point he realized that no one could really pull that off. That's when Paul finally understood grace.
Nadia Bolz-Weber
#92. The music aids the message, it's there to punctuate and abbreviate and shape the silence.
Saul Williams
#93. You can't do anything that's not political in this time and age.
Saul Williams
#94. Saul was going to kill Anansi.
They both knew it. Saul was going to kill Anansi and Loplop and King Rat, and Saul was going to die, all in an effort to prove that he was not his rat-father's son.
China Mieville
#95. She's very pretty but she's honey from the icebox, if you know what I mean. Cold sweets won't spread.
Saul Bellow
#96. I've given you everything a friend can give, Joe Saul-even contempt, and that's the hardest thing of all.
John Steinbeck
#97. If the technocratic class often invokes technology, it is because these inanimate objects can take on a trajectory of their own and so cover for the manager's inability to give leadership.
John Ralston Saul
#98. My love is my soul's imagination ...
how do I love you ... imagine.
Saul Williams
#99. Do you have feelings? There are correct and incorrect ways of indicating them. Do you have an inner life? It is nobody's business but your own. Do you have emotions? Strangle them.
Saul Bellow
#100. Suddenly to change one's opinions and go over to another party. The most notable flop on record was that of Saul of Tarsus, who has been severely criticised as a turn-coat by some of our partisan journals.
Ambrose Bierce
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