Emmanuel Levinas Quotes
A miracle entails a degree of irrationality-not because it shocks reason, but because it makes no appeal to it.Emmanuel Levinas
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No one has to learn to spell to talk, right? You see a little kid holding a conversation with an adult. He probably doesn't know the words he's saying, but he knows where to fit them to make what he's thinking logical to what you're saying.
Ornette Coleman -
Not only are Feiglin's people radicals and fascists but also the bearers of severe personal disturbances, which hide behind a layer of patriotic make-up under the camouflage of the Jewish faith.
Yossi Sarid -
I'm not interested in celebrity.
Orlando Bloom -
Politicians make mistakes. People misspeak in public. God knows I have proven both. A lot.
R. T. Rybak -
In America, we have the feeling of the doomed young artist. Fitzgerald was the great example of that.
Irwin Shaw -
I like books that expose me to people unlike me and books that do battle against caricature or simplification. That, to me, is the heroic in fiction.
Zadie Smith
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My mother read me biblical stories at night.
Malcolm Gladwell -
The best of men cannot suspend their fate: The good die early, and the bad die late.
Daniel Defoe -
O poeta é um fingidor.Finge tão completamenteQue chega a fingir que é dorA dor que deveras sente.
Fernando Pessoa -
American research and resources have literally changed the face of humanity, by tackling deadly and once-deadly diseases.
Kathleen Sebelius -
My varying pairs of legs can be quite practical or quite impractical, and I don't judge them either way. Some are for getting around a 12-hour day, pounding the pavement, and some are to feel like I can transform my own body into a workable, changing piece of art.
Aimee Mullins -
The best thing I ever did in my life was to ask, 'Do I like everybody?' And the answer was, 'No.' So why should everybody like me? If people are against me, so what? I'm against them too.
Marjane Satrapi
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I've been writing on my own. It's like Roger Miller used to say, every now and then, like a dog having puppies, you have to crawl under the house and do it yourself.
Travis Tritt -
Me & the dread yo, give em some head blow Long as he know he keep me flier than a Red Bull
Nicki Minaj -
I'm a huge fan of [Elijah Wood] work and a huge fan of him, as a person. What's great about getting to know him is that he's just a really lovely, regular guy.
Samuel Barnett -
One of the greatest hindrances in coming to Jesus is the excuse of temperament. We make our temperament and our natural affinities barriers to coming to Jesus. The first thing we realize when we come to Jesus is that He pays no attention whatever to our natural affinities. We have the notion that we can consecrate our gifts to God. You cannot consecrate what is not yours; there is only one thing you can consecrate to God, and that is your right to yourself (Romans 12:1). If you will give God your right to yourself, He will make a holy experiment out of you. God’s experiments always succeed.
Oswald Chambers -
Give crowns and pounds and guineas But not your heart away; Give pearls away and rubies, But keep your fancy free.
A. E. Housman -
Dictators have always played on the natural human tendency to blame others and to oversimplify.
Gerard K. O'Neill
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If you're unhappy, change something.
Sue Grafton -
I've struggled a lot for what I have today.
Raj Kapoor -
In our gliding experiments we had had a number of experiences in which we had landed upon one wing, but the crushing of the wing had absorbed the shock, so that we were not uneasy about the motor in case of a landing of that kind.
Orville Wright -
There are things you do because they feel right and they may make no sense and they may make no money and it may be the real reason we are here: to love each other and to eat each other's cooking and say it was good.
Brian Andreas -
A miracle entails a degree of irrationality-not because it shocks reason, but because it makes no appeal to it.
Emmanuel Levinas