Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
It is not enough for me to ask question; I want to know how to answer the one question that seems to encompass everything I face: What am I here for?
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Snobbery just inhibits you.
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I think that's what the most fascinating part of getting to know someone is - to see how they do things, and how their way of doing things is different from your way of doing things, and the fun of trying to do it their way and to see what value there is in looking at things from their perspective.
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No writer need feel sorry for himself if he writes and enjoys it, even if he doesn't get paid.
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Push your luck. If you see a pretty girl in a bar, say something.
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I love shopping, but I can't go out. I love going to restaurants and eating out with friends.
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There can be no great courage where there is no confidence or assurance, and half the battle is in the conviction that we can do what we undertake.
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I have been extremely lucky with reviewers and critics throughout my career.
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I'm really into Greek yogurt, fruit and almonds. Those are my 'go-to' snacks.
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El Salvador is a democracy so it's not surprising that there are many voices to be heard here. Yet in my conversations with Salvadorans... I have heard a single voice.
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Now science has presented us with a hope called stem cell research, which may provide our scientists with many answers that have for so long been beyond our grasp.
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For me, it was not destiny to make it to where I am now - I thought for a long- time I would become a go-kart mechanic, or a job like this, not an F1 driver.
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You think you choose the subjects of your books. But sometimes, in ways you don't know, the books choose you.
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In the year 3000, everything will be instant.
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I started a feta cheese company, Euphrates, in upstate New York in 2002.
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I don't think I look up to any players. Obviously you respect everyone.
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I am neither left wing nor right wing. I am middle-of-the-bird.
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I'm very ambitious, but I also love myself - which means I try to take care of myself.
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If the future, as imagined in literature, is really the present taken to extremes, then the past is also the present, but boiled down.
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The most striking thing about modern industry is that it requires so much and accomplishes so little.
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It’s important that someone celebrate our existence," she objected amiably. "People are the only mirror we have to see ourselves in. The domain of all meaning. All virtue, all evil, are contained only in people. There is none in the universe at large. Solitary confinement is a punishment in every human culture.
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In our heart, in the heart of each of you, let there be always the joyous certainty that the Lord is near, that he does not abandon us, that he is near to us, and that he surrounds us with his love.
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We provoke a shark every time we enter the water where sharks happen to be, for we forget: The ocean is not our territory - it's theirs.
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I started with things that I was troubled by or confused by or interested in, and then I wrote stories to try to puzzle my way through it. But the question is not how to represent war, because it's an abstract thing that's felt differently for all the characters.
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It is not enough for me to ask question; I want to know how to answer the one question that seems to encompass everything I face: What am I here for?
