Jonathan Sacks Quotes

God's forgiveness allows us to be honest with ourselves. We recognize our imperfections, admit our failures, and plead to God for clemency.

Jonathan Sacks

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• In any art, you don't know in advance what you want to say - it's revealed to you as you say it. That's the difference between art and illustration.

  

  Aaron Siskind
  • Art
  • Want
  • Know

• Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Never
  • Doing
  • Morals

• During the fall and winter we built Fort Meade and the town of Sturgis.

  

  Calamity Jane
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Town

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

  

  Halston Sage
  • Day
  • Always
  • Start

• They have a crystalline sense of right and wrong; it disappears when they walk out the door with their M.B.A.

  

  Carl Hiaasen
  • Door
  • Sense
  • Walk

• '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

• The thing about being an actor is that every new job is a new challenge. Sometimes you'll have a shot, and it doesn't work. Sometimes it'll work better than you expected.

  

  Jacki Weaver
  • Work
  • Job
  • Challenge

• I think to do a proper independent movie, in my experience, it takes 22 or 23 days to shoot. That was 'Party Girl' or 'House of Yes.' But now with the digital camera, the budgets have gotten smaller, and the days have gotten shorter.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Experience
  • Movie
  • House

• China - if you think about what is the character of China, it's enormous scale. It's bigness.

  

  Zhang Xin
  • Character
  • Think
  • You

• Something about 'Battlestar' that I didn't realize when I took the job was this whole bubble aspect of closing people in and seeing what they do.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • People
  • Job
  • Closing

• For 'Hidalgo,' I just spent as much time around horses as I could, which made sense.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Time
  • Made
  • Just

• I usually write my music on a piano, and I really enjoy performing that way, because that actually shows how the music was in my mind before it actually became an electronic song.

  

  Anton Zaslavski
  • Music
  • Mind
  • Song

• Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.

  

  Mae West
  • Office
  • Reward
  • Box

• Happens to everybody. Horses, dogs, men. Nobody gets out of life alive.

  

  Irving Ravetch
  • Life
  • Men
  • Nobody

• Cultures are never merely intellectual constructs. They take form through the collective intelligence and memory, through a commonly held psychology and emotions, through spiritual and artistic communion.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
  • Spiritual
  • Psychology
  • Intelligence

• Growing up, my imagined life as a musician was something along the lines of me lounging in a Learjet en route to a swelling outdoor amphitheatre on a dazzling summer's eve.

  

  Kat Edmonson
  • Life
  • Up
  • Growing

• One who is persistent will excel.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Will
  • Persistent
  • Excel

• How Long Is the Coast of Britain?

  

  Benoit Mandelbrot
  • Long

• Beneath a mask of selfish tranquility nothing exists except bitterness and boredom. I am one of those whom suffering has made empty and frivolous: each night in my dreams I pull the scab off a wound; each day, vacuous and habit-ridden, I help it re-form.

  

  Cyril Connolly
  • Help
  • Night
  • Suffering

• Abiding happiness is not simply a possibility, but a duty; that all may live above the troubles of life; that worry is a poison and happiness a medicine.

  

  Newell Dwight Hillis
  • Happiness
  • Duty
  • Medicine

• When we are consciously aware of being used as broken bread and poured out wine, we have yet another level to reach - a level where all awareness of ourselves and what God is doing through us is completely eliminated. A saint is never consciously a saint - a saint is consciously dependent on God.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • Broken
  • Wine

• Spiritually, trees play a unique role in the Jewish and Christian scriptures, from the Garden of Eden to the Cross of Christ. Biologically, in great forest communities, they help sustain life on our planet, giving off oxygen, anchoring soil, keeping stream and rivers clear, and providing habitation for thousands of species. How can religious persons not care about the widespread destruction of these creatures of God? We need to love them as our very selves, as neighbors in earth's community of life.

  

  Elizabeth A. Johnson
  • God
  • Creatures
  • Communities

• God's forgiveness allows us to be honest with ourselves. We recognize our imperfections, admit our failures, and plead to God for clemency.

  

  Jonathan Sacks
  • God
  • Forgiveness