Israel ben Eliezer (Baal Shem Tov) Quotes

There is no room for God in the man who is filled with himself.

Israel ben Eliezer

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• The first movie my dad ever showed me was 'Predator' – I was five. And I think the second one was 'Jaws.'

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Movie
  • Think
  • Dad

• Seriously, I don't know if people would really tell you this. But in my dream world, the people who work for you would say, 'Wow, I didn't know I could do that until I started working with that guy.'

  

  Warren Spector
  • People
  • World
  • Work

• 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

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

  

  Zhang Xin
  • Character
  • Think
  • You

• Our worst comes out when we behave like robots or professionals.

  

  Fernando Flores
  • Like
  • Worst
  • Robots

• I am definitely a person of color.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Person
  • Color

• I moved when I was 16. I had no clue what to expect in moving to L.A. I had no clue, really, about what acting was. I just knew that I wanted to do it.

  

  Haley Lu Richardson
  • Moving
  • Acting
  • Expect

• The fixed stars signify the angel in man. That is why man orients himself by them; and that is why women have no appreciation for the starry sky; because they have no sense of the angel in man.

  

  Otto Weininger
  • Women
  • Why
  • Sky

• When I was little, I didn't smile much. Don't get me wrong. I was a happy kid, but I couldn't stand the space, dead center, in between my teeth. Yeah, I could whistle through it, but so what? That didn't win me many points on the playground in Medfield, Massachusetts.

  

  Uzo Aduba
  • Happy
  • Space
  • Win

• 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

• It's hard for me to believe someone could harm a child.

  

  Nancy Grace
  • Believe
  • Child
  • Hard

• I think the 19th century is an extraordinary period with a welling up of creativity and all kinds of experimentation and exploration going on at least until 1940.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Up
  • Period
  • Creativity

• After I sold my screenplay adaptation of 'Rain Fall' to Sony Pictures, I had no more creative involvement.

  

  Barry Eisler
  • Fall
  • Creative
  • Rain

• If I don't like someone and I start reading their stuff, it seems like my brain will just automatically start criticizing everything that's there. It's really hard to read a book without having all this outside information telling you what to think about it.

  

  Tao Lin
  • Book
  • Reading
  • Brain

• I was born in Colorado and grew up in Pennsylvania with family in Texas and Oklahoma.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Up
  • Family
  • Born

• I am smarter because I stayed in school, and I am a better football player.

  

  Dak Prescott
  • School
  • Football
  • Player

• I like John McCain. He can always be counted on for a good quote.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Good
  • Like
  • Always

• We human beings do a lot of dumb things, and war is certainly the dumbest.

  

  Natalie Babbitt
  • War
  • Human
  • Dumb

• It's a long season, and if you can go back and forth pretty well, you'll end up OK.

  

  Andrew Benintendi
  • Up
  • Long
  • Pretty

• When little kids come up to me, I'm a fully-grown adult, and that's always weird to me.

  

  Jonathan Rhys Meyers
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Weird

• Care-Charmer Sleep, son of the sable Night,Brother to Death, in silent darkness born,Relieve my languish, and restore the light;With dark forgetting of my care return.And let the day be time enough to mournThe shipwreck of my ill adventured youth

  

  Samuel Daniel
  • Time
  • Death
  • Night

• Our world is increasingly complex, often chaotic, and always fast-flowing. This makes forecasting something between tremendously difficult and actually impossible, with a strong shift toward the latter as timescales get longer.

  

  Andrew McAfee
  • World
  • Difficult
  • Chaotic

• Yes, I was mad at God because of the cancer diagnosis. I thought I should have been protected because of the work I do in the world.

  

  Debbie Ford
  • World
  • Work
  • God

• There is no room for God in the man who is filled with himself.

  

  Israel ben Eliezer
  • God