Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
Being is both presence and absence. God had to conceal His presence in order to bring the world into being. He had to make His absence possible in order to make room for the world's presence. Coming into being brought along denial and defiance, absence, oblivion and resistance.Abraham Joshua Heschel
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The use of slave women as day workers naturally broke up or made impossible the normal Negro home, and this and the slave code led to a development of which the South was really ashamed and which it often denied, and yet perfectly evident: the raising of slaves in the Border slave states for systematic sale on the commercialized cotton plantations.
W. E. B. Du Bois -
If you are lucky enough to find something that you love, and you have a shot at being good at it, don't stop, don't put it down.
Taylor Swift -
I've never got into debt and I've always been in control of my taxes and VAT, but having four children costs a lot. They are my weakness.
Sadie Frost -
Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.
Mahatma Gandhi -
We all have our strengths and our failings.
Hannah Simone -
Age is just a number. If someone can perform at 45, who will stop that fellow from playing top-level cricket?
Harbhajan Singh
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We do want more, and when it becomes more, we shall still want more. And we shall never cease to demand more until we have received the results of our labor.
Samuel Gompers -
I have a terrible fear of travel. Just before we go, I start to panic and tell my wife I don't want to go. It's ridiculous. But actually it's only when it's somewhere I've not been to before.
Gary Kemp Spandau Ballet -
I think I'm a good judge of character.
Tamara Ecclestone -
Hollywood so often likes to make movies that are just about itself. I felt there were a lot of stories that were yet to be told in the middle of the country, and I wanted to capture some of that beauty.
Sam Jaeger -
Women are the strong people in this world, not men. I think TV is finally catching up with that reality, and thank God.
Finn Jones -
Men become accustomed to poison by degrees.
Victor Hugo
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I have often said that just as the French revolution, for instance, understood itself through antiquity, I think our time can be understood through the French revolution. It is quite a natural process to use other times to understand your own time.
Ian Hamilton Finlay -
It's some weird idea to think that you've always got to say everything is great and perfect.
Valerie Plame -
There is a huge crisis of employment in America, in the Western world in general.
Fareed Zakaria -
I guess I was always a ham, and I was anxious to try doing different things. I started doing impressions to make friends at school. I would do them during recess. Maybe some of the kids thought I was being weird, but everyone seemed to have a good time.
Vesta Williams -
Movement of people is taking place on an immense scale, and from a European perspective, the number of potential future immigrants seems limitless.
Viktor Orban -
The best fiction stays with you and changes you.
Tea Obreht
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You might say that economic history is the history of people learning to manage risk.
James Surowiecki -
All the critics who could not make their reputations by discovering you are hoping to make them by predicting hopefully your approaching impotence, failure and general drying up of natural juices. Not a one will wish you luck or hope that you will keep on writing unless you have political affiliations in which case these will rally around and speak of you and Homer, Balzac, Zola and Link Steffens.
Ernest Hemingway -
Things really began to move for us. In 1953 I could afford to marry Doreen.
Ernie Wise -
Tell the politicians and the hustlers: live and let live.
James Brown -
Being is both presence and absence. God had to conceal His presence in order to bring the world into being. He had to make His absence possible in order to make room for the world's presence. Coming into being brought along denial and defiance, absence, oblivion and resistance.
Abraham Joshua Heschel