Yaakov Quotes

#1. There was a brief moment after 9/11 when Colin Powell said we should not rush to satisfy the desire for revenge. It was a great moment, an extraordinary moment, because what he was actually asking people to do was to stay with a sense of grief, mournfulness, and vulnerability.

Judith Butler

#2. I try to be as real and honest about everything and very genuine with people and say, 'Listen, I'm a Christian, and I'm not perfect. I screw up every day, but I think that's what grace is all about.'

Tim Tebow

#3. I used to do this big rant at the end of some gigs with Ben Folds Five. The band broke into this big heavy metal thing and I started as a joke to scream in a heavy metal falsetto. I found myself saying things like: Feel my pain, I am white, feel my pain.

Ben Folds

#4. Because that's the thing about love. Sometimes you're head over heels long before you've even have the chance to register the fall.

Kate Givans

#5. As a boy Id often spend my days biking on riverbeds and arroyos and come home exhausted. I realize now how much I took for granted having the natural world so close at hand. It wasnt until I moved away, first to New York and then to Los Angeles, that I realized how much I missed the outdoors.

Tom Hanks

#6. Weigh the reward of the mitzva against the pleasure of the sin, and also weigh the pleasure of the sin against the punishment it will inevitably bring. Are we getting a good deal by opting for sin? Clearly, we are not.

Yaakov Hillel

#7. Every time I get a role I think, 'I've actually fooled them again, I can't believe they keep falling for this!'

Jeremy Irvine

#8. Photography has not changed since its origin except in its technical aspects, which for me are not important.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

#9. I sucked on her neck, closing my eyes and wondering if she'd let me mark her there, so I could see it tomorrow. So everyone could.

Christina Lauren

#10. A fundamental American question is, 'What's the big idea?'

P. J. O'Rourke

#11. Statistics do not convey emotion. They shock us for a minute or two, and then we click again.

Madeleine M. Kunin

#12. I'm not confused, baby, you are.

Kristen Ashley

#13. If any Englishman said he has never called a Chinaman a chink he is lying. There is nothing bad about doing that. It is like calling the British Brits, or the Irish Paddies.

Dave Whelan

#14. Rule No.37 The whiter the bread, the sooner you'll be dead.

Michael Pollan

#15. The only reason Christ submitted himself to the horrendous experience of bearing the sins of the entire world is because his death provided the only way for reconciliation with God.

Robert Jeffress

#16. I believe that the most joyful and intrinsic motivation human beings have for taking any action is the desire to meet our needs and the needs of others.

Marshall B. Rosenberg