Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes

We are closer to God when we are asking questions than when we think we have the answers.

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• If someone is sad, they put on a song, or if someone wants to rock out, and they want to get into a good mood, they put on music. Just being able to be a part of something like that I feel like was my ultimate push to do music.

  

  Adam Hicks
  • Good
  • Music
  • Song

• I try to give the appearance that I have it all together and that I know what I'm talking about, but at the end of the day, I think I might be full of crap.

  

  Laura Benanti
  • Together
  • Day
  • End

• The television business is based on managed dissatisfaction. You're watching a great television show you're really wrapped up in? You might get 50 minutes of watching a week and then 18,000 minutes of waiting until the next episode comes along.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • Up
  • Great
  • Business

• Banks are concerned the central bank is imposing too many regulations. If the trend continues, we'll swing to heavy regulation. We need to have balanced regulation to encourage the economy.

  

  Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair
  • Need
  • Economy
  • Bank

• The best time to release a film is on a festive date like Divali or Eid, or at a time when there are no big films three to four weeks before or after.

  

  Salman Khan
  • Time
  • Best
  • Three

• The nanofibrillar scaffolds designed to guide the process of cellular repopulation is an important step towards prolonging life and enhancing the quality of life for patients with advanced heart disease with defective valve.

  

  Magdi Yacoub
  • Life
  • Important
  • Heart

• Most mutations involve typos: Something bumps a cell's elbow as it's copying DNA, and the wrong letter appears in a triplet - CAG becomes CCG.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Wrong
  • Letter
  • DNA

• Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.

  

  Taslima Nasrin
  • Always
  • Religious
  • Books

• I dyed my hair pink when I was fifteen.

  

  Karen Gillan
  • Hair
  • Pink
  • Fifteen

• My memories from my childhood are centered on my father's medical conditions alongside my constant desire to understand the principles of the nature around me.

  

  Ada Yonath
  • Nature
  • Father
  • Desire

• Change is inevitable. Things absolutely cannot stay the same. The type of change we invoke is up to each and every one of us.

  

  Yehuda Berg
  • Up
  • Change
  • Same

• Women's tennis has been around for a very long time - we're talking about the 1800s. But women's soccer hasn't had such a long history, so now they're right at the beginning of really trying to make things equal. We need to continue not only to advocate for women but to have men advocating for women.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Time
  • Men
  • Long

• I'll put you through hell, but at the end of it all we'll be champions.

  

  Bear Bryant
  • End
  • Hell
  • Champions

• I suspect the psychological pressure associated with that crisis caused the first mental blackout I had ever suffered. It contributed to a deterioration in my health that later required the insertion of a heart pacemaker.

  

  Kamisese Mara
  • Heart
  • Health
  • Pressure

• I am grateful to theatre for making me what I am today. But it's not like theatre is my first love. I am equally attached to cinema, which is, actually, a child of theatre, since it borrows heavily from it.

  

  Om Puri
  • Child
  • Theatre
  • Grateful

• Find the appropriate balance of competing claims by various groups of stakeholders. All claims deserve consideration but some claims are more important than others.

  

  Warren Bennis
  • Important
  • Balance
  • Find

• You get to a new school, and you're the new guy, or you're the foreigner, or you're the guy with the funny accent. That first day at school was a whole new opportunity to create a new persona.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • School
  • Guy
  • Opportunity

• I would literally climb out of the cradle while my parents slept, go and crawl off. I did this a couple of times apparently. I'd cross the road and into someone's house, wake them up banging pots and pans in the kitchen.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Up
  • House
  • Parents

• I don't care if you're a man, if you're a player: If God sends you that one and your heart is in it, you'll work it out.

  

  Taraji P. Henson
  • Work
  • God
  • Heart

• Comin' close together with a feelin' that I've never known before, in my time.She ain't ashamed to be a woman, or afraid to be a friend.I don't know the answer to the easy way she opened every door in my mind.But dreamin' was as easy as believin' it was never gonna end.And lovin' her was easier than anything I'll ever do again.

  

  Kris Kristofferson
  • Time
  • Mind
  • She

• Hello, babies. Welcome to Earth. It's hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It's round and wet and crowded. At the outside, babies, you've got about a hundred years here. There's only one rule that I know of, babies - 'God damn it, you've got to be kind.'

  

  Kurt Vonnegut
  • God
  • Earth
  • Cold

• As soon as I came to believe there was a God, I understood that I could not do otherwise than live only for him.

  

  Charles de Foucauld
  • God
  • Faith
  • Understanding

• The noble lord in this case, as in so many others, first destroys his opponent, and then destroys his own position afterwards. The noble lord is the Prince Rupert of parliamentary discussion: his charge is resistless, but when he returns from the pursuit he always finds his camp in the possession of the enemy.

  

  Benjamin Disraeli
  • Enemy
  • Prince

• We are closer to God when we are asking questions than when we think we have the answers.

  

  Abraham Joshua Heschel
  • God