Isaac Mayer Wise Quotes

The nations of antiquity rolled away in the current of ages, Israel alone remained one indestructible edifice of gray antiquity... preserved by an internal and marvelous power.

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• That's what everybody calls me, 'Cheat Code,' because they just throw the ball up to me.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Me
  • Ball
  • Everybody

• There's nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It's a thing no married man knows anything about.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • World
  • Man
  • Woman

• It is part of my responsibility as a bridge builder to speak the truth about what's great about America, what we've done right, and what our less glorious moments. And many people feel that the Iraq adventure, for example, has been one of our less glorious moments.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • People
  • Great
  • Done

• I always carry lip balm and lipstick. Lipstick is a very important beauty product because I find that lips are the most beautiful feature of anyone's face.

  

  Fan Bingbing
  • Important
  • Beautiful
  • Beauty

• Women I admired growing up - Debra Winger, Diane Keaton, Meryl Streep - were all beautiful and thin, but not too thin. There are a lot of actresses who are unhealthy-skinny - much, much too skinny. You can't Pilates to that.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Up
  • Women
  • Beautiful

• It's always an honor to represent your country.

  

  Sammy Sosa
  • Country
  • Always
  • Honor

• Follow me around. I don't care. If anybody wants to put a tail on me, go ahead. They'd be very bored.

  

  Gary Hart
  • Me
  • Care
  • Bored

• Take good care of our fragile planet.

  

  Kalpana Chawla
  • Good
  • Care
  • Take

• 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

• Where do you get lumpy tiles? Well, of course, you don't. But I get a lot of toilets, and so you just dispatch a toilet with a hammer, and then you have lumpy tiles.

  

  Dan Phillips
  • You
  • Hammer
  • Toilet

• Some women can't say the word lesbian... even when their mouth is full of one.

  

  Kate Clinton
  • Women
  • Say
  • Lesbian

• Understanding the intentions of a play is so key because you can block a guy into the running back if you don't know how the play is supposed to work or where the back is going to come out.

  

  D'Brickashaw Ferguson
  • Work
  • Guy
  • Know

• We have no quarrel with a policy that seeks to support human rights.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • Support
  • Human
  • Human Rights

• Government bonds have basically been sold in the domestic market, so there is some sense of stability, but the amount of public debt is really severe... Japan must manage its finances with a sense of urgency.

  

  Yoshihiko Noda
  • Government
  • Market
  • Urgency

• I can trust in Jesus. And this Gospel that we preach does work. So those who are hurting and suffering today, hang in there. The sun will shine again.

  

  Tammy Faye Bakker
  • Work
  • Today
  • Trust

• It is remarkable how easily children and grown-ups adapt to living in a dictatorship organised by lunatics.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Children
  • Living
  • Adapt

• Distinctions between citizens solely because of their ancestry are by their very nature odious to a free people whose institutions are founded upon the doctrine of equality.

  

  Harlan Stone
  • People
  • Nature
  • Free

• That is the real spiritual awakening, when something emerges from within you that is deeper than who you thought you were. So, the person is still there, but one could almost say that something more powerful shines through the person.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Real
  • Powerful
  • Spiritual

• It seems to me there is a change in what audiences want to see. I can only hope that's correct, because there's an awful lot of people of my age around now and we outnumber the others.

  

  Maggie Smith
  • People
  • Hope
  • Age

• I was suddenly really famous, and I didn't know how to cope. I didn't know myself well enough as a person, number one, and as an actor, number two. I wanted to escape.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Know
  • Myself
  • Famous

• Am I still in uniform? Then I ain't retired.

  

  Pete Rose

• Obtain power, then, by all means; power is the law of man; make it yours.

  

  Maria Edgeworth
  • Power
  • Law

• For as long as I care to remember, religion, like the striptease, has always been a display of the power of suggestion. Like the Virgin Birth, it has all too often supported an immaculate deception.

  

  Bernard Katz
  • Long
  • Power
  • Remember

• The nations of antiquity rolled away in the current of ages, Israel alone remained one indestructible edifice of gray antiquity... preserved by an internal and marvelous power.

  

  Isaac Mayer Wise
  • Power
  • Israel
  • Antiquity