Jonathan Sacks Quotes

Religion survives because it answers three questions that every reflective person must ask. Who am I? Why am I here? How then shall I live?

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• I feel like I'm going backwards, actually, as I get older. I'm regressing. I feel more and more like a kid, which is kind of a fun feeling.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Fun
  • Feeling
  • Kind

• I'm a pretty girl who's a model who doesn't suck as an actress.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • Pretty
  • Girl
  • Model

• Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a certain inner experience.

  

  Felix Adler
  • Experience
  • Intellect
  • Dogma

• Be passionate. Be courageous. Be your best.

  

  Gabrielle Giffords
  • Best
  • Passionate
  • Courageous

• When I learnt to write I became my own master, I became very strong, and that strength is with me to this very day.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Strong
  • Day
  • Strength

• The Japanese version comes with a translation, but that's different from the lyrics, so people could look things up and find a translation of their own if they're interested.

  

  Utada Hikaru
  • People
  • Up
  • Different

• Scientists at MIT and engineering schools all across America say that they could improve the fuel economy standards for the existing set of vehicles by 10 miles per gallon using existing technology, without compromising safety or comfort at all.

  

  Ed Markey
  • America
  • Technology
  • Safety

• I'm the best Twitterer.

  

  Dan Carter
  • Best

• Always and never are two words you should always remember never to use.

  

  Wendell Johnson
  • Remember
  • Words
  • Never

• Because Islam in its original form was tough and hard, not weak and pliable.

  

  Abu Bakar Bashir
  • Tough
  • Islam
  • Original

• I leave my house all the time! But I'm not at all the Hollywood parties. I'm grown, and where else am I supposed to be? I'm supposed to be home.

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • Time
  • Home
  • House

• Pop knew absolutely nothing about pro football.

  

  Wellington Mara
  • Football
  • Nothing
  • Pop

• I've been wrestling since I was 18 years old. And within the first five months of my wrestling career, I'd already had three concussions. And for years after that, I would get a concussion here and there, and it gets to the point that when you've been wrestling for 16 years, that adds up to a lot of concussions.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Up
  • Career
  • Old

• If I were asked for a one-sentence sound bite on religion, I would say I was against it.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Religion
  • Sound
  • Say

• The interesting thing about movies, it's not always - y'know, you have to have structure etc and all those things, but an audience responds, in many ways, we walk away and certain things stay in our heads that are memorable.

  

  Barry Levinson
  • Interesting
  • Movies
  • Walk

• I still love records, and I've been fortunate that my parents bought me a record player so I didn't just have my vinyls to stare at!

  

  Gabrielle Aplin
  • Parents
  • Player
  • Record

• Thomas Paine, so celebrated and so despised as he traveled through the critical events of his time, has long appealed to biographers. Paine was present at the creation both of the United States and of the French Republic. His eloquence, in the pamphlet 'Common Sense,' propelled the American colonists toward independence.

  

  Edmund Morgan
  • Time
  • Long
  • American

• The world has become so complex that the idea of a power in which everything comes together and can be controlled in a centralized way is now erroneous.

  

  Ulrich Beck
  • World
  • Power
  • Together

• I've never played it safe on my own music.

  

  Blake Shelton
  • Music

• Even if loving meant leaving, or solitude, or sorrow, love was worth every penny of its price.

  

  Paulo Coelho
  • Leaving
  • Solitude

• I've always looked at 2016, but 2020 is realistic for me. I'll be 23 in 2016, but if I keep on progressing, hopefully 2016 will be a medal chance as well for me.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Always
  • Chance
  • Hopefully

• Throughout history, civilizations have built a common cause through coming-of-age rituals. But we don't do that anymore. Maybe we should think about that.

  

  Joe Klein
  • History
  • Age

• I tend to stay in character between scenes... to be rather serious on set, but here's why, and I think people will find it surprising. I'm one of the worst 'corpses' on a movie set, which means you can't keep a straight face. You start to get the giggles and you can't stop.

  

  Christian Bale
  • People
  • Why
  • Character

• Religion survives because it answers three questions that every reflective person must ask. Who am I? Why am I here? How then shall I live?

  

  Jonathan Sacks
  • Live
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