Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes

To be human is a problem, and the problem expresses itself in anguish.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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• Mel will always be Mad Max, and me, I will always be a Number.

  

  Patrick McGoohan
  • Me
  • Always
  • Mad

• I love learning new things that will never be put to practical use.

  

  Jackson Rathbone
  • Love
  • Learning
  • Things

• Sex is a bad thing because it rumples the clothes.

  

  Jackie Kennedy
  • Bad
  • Sex
  • Clothes

• That's what we were exploring on 'Larry Sanders' - the human qualities that have brought us to where we are now in the world: the addiction to needing more and wanting more and talking more. We were examining the labels put on success - is it successful to be on TV every day, to be famous, to have a paycheck?

  

  Garry Shandling
  • World
  • Success
  • Day

• Working with Mellencamp, I made new fans, people that may have never heard of me. They may have heard I was related to the Carter Family or Johnny Cash somehow, but what they got was pure Carlene.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • People
  • Family
  • May

• For me personally, I try to use my size to my advantage where I can either slip by guys or try to create more space for myself.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • Me
  • Space
  • Myself

• My son has taken liking for sports and is most of the time playing cricket and football. It is so much fun being with them, as I'm enjoying every phase of motherhood.

  

  Karisma Kapoor
  • Time
  • Fun
  • Taken

• I believe that the will of the people is resolved by a strong leadership. Even in a democratic society, events depend on a strong leadership with a strong power of persuasion, and not on the opinion of the masses.

  

  Yitzhak Shamir
  • People
  • Believe
  • Power

• Writing is finally play, and there's no reason why you should get paid for playing.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • Writing
  • Why
  • Play

• When I give notes on a script, I say, 'Guys, I may drift, but it's part of the process.' So I'm aware that I'm drifting, but I'm grabbing a lot of stuff.

  

  Garry Shandling
  • May
  • Process
  • Notes

• If I take two years off, I would want to fight as much as possible.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Want
  • Fight
  • Possible

• I have much to say about the pain I've felt and seen inside of prison. It has been an eye-opening and harrowing experience.

  

  Lane Garrison
  • Experience
  • Pain
  • Prison

• When ye are prepared for a thing, the opportunity to use it presents itself.

  

  Edgar Cayce
  • Opportunity
  • Use
  • Prepared

• I think I have more patience now than I did in the past.

  

  T. Boone Pickens
  • Think
  • Past
  • Patience

• I like the fact that glass ceilings are breaking all over.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Like
  • Fact
  • Glass

• For the longest time, I wanted to become a pianist. That was kinda my thing.

  

  Anton Zaslavski
  • Time
  • Wanted
  • Become

• How do you grow up in the shadow of a guy - I want to talk about the movie in a second - but how do you grow up in the shadow of a guy who really is a legend in his own time?

  

  Tavis Smiley
  • Up
  • Time
  • Movie

• In a time where there are divides between cultures and races, I would love to use my position to show that we are all the same inside and working together is the key to moving forward.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Time
  • Moving
  • Working

• Like so many first generation children of Indian immigrants, I learned to believe in a dream that is as much American as it is universal: a dream of equal opportunity for all based on merit, of power concentrated not in the hands of a few at the top, but fanning across a large, educated, and civically engaged middle class.

  

  Leila Janah
  • Believe
  • Children
  • Power

• The golden hour of invention must terminate like other hours, and when the man of genius returns to the cares, the duties, the vexations, and the amusements of life, his companions behold him as one of themselves - the creature of habits and infirmities.

  

  Isaac D'Israeli
  • Life
  • Man
  • Genius

• A virulent, aggressive minority has decided that Americans don't know themselves what it is they should see, and need to be protected by people who are wiser than they are, even if they are only a tiny sliver of the population.

  

  Jock Sturges
  • People

• Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • War
  • Peace

• In 2001, we were like most high-tech companies, with one or two primary products that were really important to us.

  

  John T. Chambers
  • Important
  • High

• To be human is a problem, and the problem expresses itself in anguish.

  

  Abraham Joshua Heschel