Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but the endless, tameless pilgrimage of hearts.
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Football is good, but family, close friends, my brothers - I have family everywhere - is the most important thing.
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During the late '20s my father left us. My mother was in a complete hole with no money, and we were evicted.
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I always say three things make a writer: inspiration, obviously; perspiration, doing the work. But the third is desperation. I'm not really fit for anything else, or to have a real job. That fear drives me. The pressure has always been self inflicted.
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My stepfather was quite into opera, but he'd play it when he was in a bad mood, so you'd hear this boom through the floor, Wagner, and you'd feel nervous.
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Some of the wives didn't keep up with the program. It started breaking apart during the Apollo days.
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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.
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Discipline and united action are the real source of strength for the nation.
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You always want to try, in everything you do, to attempt something you've never tried before, and the only way to succeed at that is through failure, and the only way to succeed through failure is just banging your head against the wall over and over until you get to that interesting thing on the other side.
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My mom and I have always been really close. She's always been the friend that was always there. There were times when, in middle school and junior high, I didn't have a lot of friends. But my mom was always my friend. Always.
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I think less than people think I do about politics. I care about writing.
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You never get every job you want.
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If there's one message I want people to take away is never compromise being your authentic self. Even if that means making others uncomfortable.
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At the high school level, the coaches get these kids in revenue-driven sports and take them away from baseball. There's so much pressure on these kids to even play spring football. We need to get the African-American players back in the game, which I think would make it not only a better game, but more exciting and entertaining for everyone.
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Any voices or fantasies, he lives with. Those are his everyday life things.
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A lot of these people were getting to where they didn't need help anymore. You have to start all over again.
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Stealing is stealing. I don't care if it's on the Internet or you're breaking into a warehouse somewhere - it's theft.
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Never dress down for the poor. They won't respect you for it. They want their First Lady to look like a million dollars.
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One of the things that made the Internet so explosive and such an economic and intellectual force is because of the free-market enterprise in a country like the U.S. controlling access to it.
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Next to the striking of fire and the discovery of the wheel, the greatest triumph of what we call civilization was the domestication of the human male.
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A teacher's major contribution may pop out anonymously in the life of some ex-student's grandchild. A teacher, finally, has nothing to go on but faith, a student nothing to offer in return but testimony.
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Wouldn't it be a great thing if all who are well schooled in secular learning could hold fast to the "iron rod," or the word of God, which could lead them, through faith, to an understanding, rather than to have them stray away into strange paths of man-made theories and be plunged into the murky waters of disbelief and apostasy?
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We turn away astrophysicists in order to make room for illiterate Afghan peasants who will drop out of high school to man coffee carts until deciding to engage in jihad against us.
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NATO continues, using ultimatums, to insist Belgrade and the entire international community accept the alliance's demands.
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but the endless, tameless pilgrimage of hearts.
