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

• By playing games you can artificially speed up your learning curve to develop the right kind of thought processes.

  

  Nate Silver
  • Up
  • Learning
  • Thought

• 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

• Once you become an actor, it's important to take care of yourself. I live in Santa Monica, where I can mountain bike, hike and go running on the beach. I like a nice sunset jog.

  

  Mark Feuerstein
  • Important
  • Live
  • Running

• It's nice, being brought up with no money at all. It's just not how I measure success, so that makes it a bunch easier.

  

  Bode Miller
  • Up
  • Money
  • Success

• If humans are not required to earn a living to be provided survival needs, many are going to want very much to be productive, but not at those tasks they did not choose to do but were forced to accept in order to earn money. Instead, humans will spontaneously take upon themselves those tasks that world society really needs to have done.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • World
  • Money
  • Done

• We acquire both the language and religious concepts from our immediate culture – at the same time. A child cannot discriminate between useful survival information and the emotional and psychological manipulations of religion. Once infected, these ideas are deeply embedded and almost impossible to change.

  

  Darrel Ray
  • Children
  • Religious
  • Emotional

• I object to people running down the future. I am going to live all the rest of my life there.

  

  Charles Kettering
  • People
  • Life
  • Live

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

  

  Abraham Joshua Heschel