Bel Kaufman Quotes

You’re not God. Nothing is your fault, except, perhaps, poor teaching.

Bel Kaufman

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• Songwriter friends will be like, 'Oh my God, when are you going to put out 'Love Triangle?'' It's just been that song for me that really helped me get a lot of writing sessions and helped jump-start my writing career.

  

  RaeLynn
  • God
  • Friends
  • Career

• I think that's what art is about: to provoke you. It helps me make sense of a senseless universe because I become the god of the story. I create it, and I see it in all its lineaments in my own way and can control it – in a world in which everything else is out of control.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • World
  • God
  • Art

• Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's fingers.

  

  Hans Christian Andersen
  • Life
  • God
  • inspirational

• George Washington understood that the Bible is the place where God's records of right and wrong are kept.

  

  Randall Terry
  • God
  • Bible
  • Place

• God values you simply because He created you. You are precious to Him, and your value will never change.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • God
  • Change
  • Value

• My high school experience was pretty good, but my middle school experience was god awful. It was horrible. I got picked on like no tomorrow.

  

  Zachary Levi
  • Good
  • God
  • School

• Terrorists have goals beyond their supposed pacts with God. They are authors, too.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • God
  • Goals
  • Beyond

• Part of me suspects that I'm a loser and the other part of me thinks I'm God Almighty.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • God

• God bless Neymar because this boy has changed the lives of kids in Brazil. A lot of children watch him, believe they can be the next Neymar. Sometimes, you have a great opportunity to change and impact the lives of kids.

  

  Anderson Silva
  • Great
  • God
  • Believe

• For me, writing stories is one way of feeling connected to the universe and God.

  

  Elif Safak
  • God
  • Writing
  • Feeling

• Every person is a God in embryo. Its only desire is to be born.

  

  Deepak Chopra
  • God
  • Desire

• If we believe that the Bible is the inspired Word of God, then we shouldn't be recognizing it only as a book of historical and economic significance.

  

  Bill Haslam
  • God
  • Believe
  • Book

• I believe in metaphysics. I don't believe in God because I think that is a human simplification of the things we can't explain. But I believe in a greater universe.

  

  Jochen Zeitz
  • God
  • Believe
  • Universe

• I don't have the wherewithal to judge God's will. I don't have the wherewithal to determine whether your viewpoints are right or wrong.

  

  Amul Thapar
  • God
  • Judge

• You have to be humble when you're dealing with God.

  

  Jill Scott
  • God
  • Humble

• Your competition is not other people but the time you kill, the ill will you create, the knowledge you neglect to learn, the connections you fail to build, the health you sacrifice along the path, your inability to generate ideas, the people around you who don't support and love your efforts, and whatever god you curse for your bad luck.

  

  James Altucher
  • People
  • Time
  • God

• Oh, my God! My wife and I, boy, we got down that night. On a personal note!

  

  Derek Luke
  • God
  • Night
  • Wife

• Love God; love others; do your best in all you do, even if you fall short!

  

  Bethany Hamilton
  • God
  • Fall

• The Son of God became incarnate in the souls of men to instill the feeling of brotherhood. All are brothers and all children of God.

  

  Pope Francis
  • God
  • Men
  • Children

• So long as men hold the tribal notion that the individual is sacrificial fodder for the collective, that some men have the right to rule others by force, and that some (any) alleged 'good' can justify It - there can be no peace ‘within’ a nation and no peace among nations.

  

  Ayn Rand
  • Good
  • Men
  • Long

• Of everything I have seen, it's you I want to go on seeing: of everything I've touched, it's your flesh I want to go on touching. I love your orange laughter. I am moved by the sight of you sleeping. What am I to do, love, loved one? I don't know how others love or how people loved in the past. I live, watching you, loving you. Being in love is my nature.

  

  Pablo Neruda
  • People
  • Live
  • Nature

• Scripture doesn't speak of people who found God. Scripture speaks of people who walked with God.

  

  Rachel Grace Held
  • People
  • God
  • Speak

• The way I see it, the earth is going to be here after we're dead and gone. Even if it's a polluted planet, and they messed it up. Where do they go from here - to another planet so they can mess that up too?

  

  Richard Pryor
  • Earth
  • Way
  • Planets

• You’re not God. Nothing is your fault, except, perhaps, poor teaching.

  

  Bel Kaufman
  • God
  • Teaching
  • Fault