Isaac Bashevis Singer Quotes

I don't invent characters because the Almightly has already invented millions… Just like experts at fingerprints do not create fingerprints but learn how to read them.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

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• What do we tell our children? Haste makes waste. Look before you leap. Stop and think. Don't judge a book by its cover. We believe that we are always better off gathering as much information as possible and spending as much time as possible in deliberation.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Children

• We, Will Ferrell and I, were approached by Sequoia, which is a big financing firm up in Palo Alto; they do a lot of Internet stuff, and they came to us and said they had an idea for a comedy site, and Will and I were sorta like, 'Yeah, we don't know. It's the Internet, we've seen it come and go.'

  

  Adam McKay
  • Up
  • Know
  • Comedy

• The values by which we are to survive are not rules for just and unjust conduct, but are those deeper illuminations in whose light justice and injustice, good and evil, means and ends are seen in fearful sharpness of outline.

  

  Jacob Bronowski
  • Good
  • Light
  • Evil

• We are ready to work hard, work together to re-elect President Barack Obama. We must do it because women deserve to make their own choices and determine the course of their lives.

  

  Nancy Keenan
  • Work
  • Women
  • Together

• In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • Writing
  • Short
  • Medicine

• Bitcoin has so much potential, and that's why the believers are trying to facilitate its use as a currency, so people use to buy things and spread it around more.

  

  Adam Draper
  • People
  • Trying
  • Why

• Everybody hates you when you're the best, and everybody hates you when you're the worst.

  

  Pamela Adlon
  • You
  • Best
  • Worst

• To think is of itself to be useful; it is always and in all cases a striving toward God.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • God
  • Think
  • Striving

• I've been given an opportunity to make a difference.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • Opportunity
  • Difference

• Writing tonal music now, you are not writing into the 19th Century.

  

  Gavin Bryars
  • Music
  • Writing
  • You

• Awards are for young people. They just are.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • People
  • Young
  • Awards

• It really does take a lot of time to make records, to be in the studio and do all that stuff.

  

  Vince Gill
  • Time
  • Take
  • Studio

• One immutable trait of the gullible is that they are credulous to a fault. Though no-doubt well-meaning, the naive are Trump's base.

  

  Pamela Meyer
  • Doubt
  • Trump
  • Fault

• In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Law
  • Place
  • Conscience

• Thread count is actually a lie. Just because a thread count is 1,500 on a set of sheets doesn't mean that they're well-made sheets. Truly, the quality of the cotton and the quality of the way something is woven is much more important than thread count.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Important
  • Quality
  • Lie

• Union can achieve everything when sustained by gallant hearts and correct principles, while anarchy and insubordination must fail in the achievement of every thing beneficial and glorious to mankind.

  

  Sam Houston
  • Achievement
  • Achieve
  • Union

• From a monarchy followed by suffering under Communism, Ethiopians must be given the opportunity to flourish under the greatest of systems - democracy.

  

  Jack Kingston
  • Opportunity
  • Democracy
  • Suffering

• Every where the years bring to all enough of sin and sorrow; but in slavery the very dawn of life is darkened by these shadows.

  

  Harriet Ann Jacobs
  • Life
  • Slavery
  • Shadows

• I did an episode of a show called 'Mind Games,' which is no longer on the air, and it was an intellectual comedy-drama. It was just really smart TV.

  

  Emma Dumont
  • Mind
  • Comedy
  • Air

• Let us fear the worst, but work with faith; the best will always take care of itself.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Fear
  • Faith
  • Take Care

• Death comes black and hard, rushing down on me from the future, with no possible chance of escape.

  

  David Gerrold
  • Future
  • Death
  • Black

• The '60s may be idealized in the movie from a cultural point of view, but the decade was all about discord and a big generational split that was very painful.

  

  Jane Fonda
  • May
  • Movie

• In high school, my first thing ever was I played Tony in 'West Side Story' when I was about 17. I was a really shy kid, and I just, like, forced myself to learn how to sing this one month because I loved 'West Side Story' so much, and I somehow managed to get the role.

  

  Paulo Costanzo
  • School
  • High

• I don't invent characters because the Almightly has already invented millions… Just like experts at fingerprints do not create fingerprints but learn how to read them.

  

  Isaac Bashevis Singer