Abraham Isaac Kook Quotes

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• Democracy should be practiced not every six years, but every day.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Day
  • Democracy
  • Everyday

• When you commit to something and have fun with it, it appreciates you, the gift, and it starts to help you out.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Help
  • Fun
  • Gift

• Let us show our fellow countrymen and the entire world what the Germans can do when they work for peace.

  

  Walter Ulbricht
  • World
  • Work
  • Peace

• I did absolutely grow up in a world surrounded by people who were always performing and being flamboyant.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• There's been no real reason to move to LA. The stuff I've done for America has been done in Europe anyway. We made a decision early on that we'd find our base and not shake the children's world as much as mine.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • World
  • Children
  • Real

• That's pretty much who I am. I like to get riled up. I feel like it brings the best out of me and the other guys.

  

  Malik Jackson
  • Best
  • Riled

• I think you can totally be a totally normal kid from the suburbs of Chicago and go off and play shows. It's one of those things that when you go home, you're still the nerd you were when you left, and your parents still get to yell at you about cleaning up your room, and your girlfriend still drags you to the pet store.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • Up
  • Home
  • Parents

• Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers.

  

  Yevgeny Yevtushenko
  • Like
  • Poetry
  • Bird

• Remember that it is not enough to abstain from lying by word of mouth; for the worst lies are often conveyed by a false look, smile, or act.

  

  Abraham Cahan
  • Remember
  • Lies
  • Smile

• The old Court you and I served so long will not be worthy of its traditions if Nixon can twist, turn and fashion If Nixon gets away with that, then Nixon makes the law as he goes along - not the Congress nor the courts.

  

  Earl Warren
  • Long
  • Law
  • Fashion

• Life certainly points it out to you - 'you can go this way or the other way.' You have to decide and it's a very strong decision because, would you sleep well knowing that you're living in the best place, but you're letting the place where you should live alone?

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Life
  • Live
  • Strong

• True security is based on people's welfare - on a thriving economy, on strong public health and education programmes, and on fundamental respect for our common humanity. Development, peace, disarmament, reconciliation and justice are not separate from security; they help to underpin it.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • People
  • True
  • Help

• I think the biggest challenge we faced in making 'The September Issue' was the fact that people in the fashion world are very suspicious of cameras. They're used to a camera being the enemy, something that is prying and looking to catch you in a compromising position, something that's judging you.

  

  R. J. Cutler
  • People
  • World
  • Fashion

• One can not reflect in streaming water. Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Peace
  • Water
  • Reflect

• To nurture the sort of relationships that will truly help propel you towards accomplishing great things, you need to forget transactional networking and focus on having in-depth conversations with fewer people about subjects you really care about.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • People
  • Great
  • Help

• Rooting for the offense is the safe way to go. You win either way.

  

  Kate Mara
  • Way
  • Win
  • Safe

• Anybody can make jokes. But unless they come from conviction, and there's truth in them, you haven't nailed it. They aren't as funny as they could be, and they don't make a point.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Truth
  • Funny
  • Jokes

• I tried to stick to my game plan, which was always being aware of what my A story was - the love story between a father and his son, and that son and his daughter.

  

  Ted Demme
  • Love
  • Father
  • Game

• My wife is Danish and we go to Denmark a couple of times a year.

  

  Ted Shackelford
  • Wife
  • Couple
  • Year

• I'm always writing something. There's always some structure sitting around someplace. There's always things on the computer, things scratched on score paper, legal tablets full of lyrics. It's never not buzzing around me all the time. I'm always doing it.

  

  J. D. Souther
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Lyrics

• God can not be for, and against the same thing at the same time.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • God
  • Thing
  • Same Time

• Dance with me,' Win said. 'I know I'm probably making a fool of myself. You're probably thinking, how many times do I have to reject this guy? Can't he take a hint?' I shook my head. 'But somehow I don't even care. I see you in your red dress, standing by the punch table, and something in me wants to keep trying. I think, she is a person worth knowing.

  

  Gabrielle Zevin
  • Thinking
  • Trying
  • She

• I cannot consider fighting in competitive Manly Fun any more than I can consider pitting my running, swimming or climbing body against other bodies. Nothing, then, or now, arouses me or will ever arouse me from a perfect disinterest in ball games.

  

  Hal Porter
  • Fighting
  • Bodies
  • Manly Fun

• A tiny remnant of a big thing is better than a whole little thing.

  

  Abraham Isaac Kook
  • Thing
  • Little
  • Remnant