Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes

We forfeit the right to worship God as long as we continue to humiliate negroes. … The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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• Sir, I am a republican; and I desire to see this House observe the principles of that democracy which is ever on the lips of its members, and which, I hope, is in their hearts, as I know and feel it is in mine, and mean it shall be in my conduct.

  

  Caleb Cushing
  • House
  • Desire
  • Democracy

• Character, I am sure, lies in the genes.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • Character
  • Genes

• I always start the day by washing my face and moisturizing.

  

  Halston Sage
  • Day
  • Always
  • Start

• If someone has failed, that is not a deficiency for me. I think that he has more motivation. I've seen many examples where someone was successful first and failed later and failed first and then succeeded. If they failed in an honest way, I don't see it as a deficiency.

  

  Yossi Vardi
  • Way
  • Successful
  • Honest

• I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.

  

  Camille Claudel
  • Protect
  • Harm

• I could pose in fashion commercials as a high society star but politics is a new way of life.

  

  Marat Safin
  • Life
  • High
  • Society

• I know that, as a comedian, I've made great strides because I've worked as hard as a person can work at being at least wildly amusing.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Work
  • Great
  • Know

• The first time you meet someone, the conversation is sort of on life support. You're just trying to live another moment in the life of the conversation.

  

  Sam Yagan
  • Life
  • Time
  • Live

• I have yet to see a drama that puts forward women who are successful and also have a family... they are nearly always seen as victims.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Women
  • Family
  • Drama

• 'Power' is a very special film for me and is one of the finest films of my career. I have played a character that I have never done before. My role has a lot of comedy.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Character
  • Power
  • Career

• Career is too pompous a word. It was a job, and I have always felt privileged to be paid for what I love doing.

  

  Barbara Stanwyck
  • Job
  • Career
  • Always

• Inventions have long since reached their limit, and I see no hope for further development.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Long
  • Hope
  • Development

• Women view men like houses. They look for fixer-uppers.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • Men
  • Women
  • View

• This is Earth. Isn't it hot?

  

  Paris Hilton
  • Earth
  • Hot

• I will only say that many freedom fighters of India found their calling in the institutions of Britain. And many makers of modern India, including several of my distinguished predecessors, from Jawaharlal Nehru to Dr. Manmohan Singh, passed through their doors.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Freedom
  • Modern
  • Doors

• If you only write when the muse strikes, you won't get anything done. You have to write consistently, when your schedule says you should. And that's hard.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Done
  • You
  • Muse

• If you're a psychologist, you can instrumentally change peoples lives for the better. But you can only do that for about 300 people to maybe a thousand people - if you're really prolific and you're working really hard.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • People
  • Change
  • Better

• There has been no persecution I have not tasted, no oppression I have not suffered. I neither care for Paradise nor fear Hell. If I see my nation's belief secured, I will not even care about burning in Hell, for while my body is burning, my heart will be as if in a rose garden.

  

  Said Nursi
  • Heart
  • Fear
  • Garden

• Infidelity is such a pretty word, so light and delicate. Whereas the act itself is dark and thick with guilt, betrayal, confusion, pain, and (okay) sometimes enormous pleasure.

  

  Cynthia Heimel
  • Pretty
  • Light
  • Pain

• I'm very easily distracted unless I have music on. Listening to music while I brainstorm makes me think of scenes that would fit the mood of the music I'm playing.

  

  Maggie Stiefvater
  • Music
  • Think
  • Listening

• It was always one of my favorite things, the action figures, the video games, when I was with WWE, even though I'm not a gamer. I would literally go out and buy the games just so I could play myself.

  

  Dave Bautista
  • Action

• It's estimated for every $1 billion we spend on road construction, nearly 48,000 jobs are created.

  

  Dennis Hastert
  • Road

• As for restitutions, to nobody in particular do I owe any, but as for those I owe to the realm, I hope in the mercy of God.

  

  Louis XIV
  • God
  • Hope
  • Mercy

• We forfeit the right to worship God as long as we continue to humiliate negroes. … The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.

  

  Abraham Joshua Heschel
  • God
  • Long
  • Spiritual