Rabbi Hillel Quotes

Do not say, 'When I have leisure, I will study,' because you may never have leisure.

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• An economically peaceful and prosperous Sri Lanka is the dream of youth of the nation. My message for the youth is to collectively work for an inclusively developed Sri Lanka.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Work
  • Dream
  • Youth

• I want my son to become aware that he is in charge of the choices he makes, and it's good to make thoughtful, good choices.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Good
  • Choices
  • Son

• Well, yeah, but I probably wasn't as open about my desperation.

  

  Edie Falco
  • Open
  • Well
  • Desperation

• I wasn't a social butterfly at all.

  

  Kate Bosworth
  • Social
  • Butterfly

• I have to give people time to take a picture, and sign autographs. I have to be generous to people. It is in my heart. Without that, I would not be Manny Pacquiao.

  

  Manny Pacquiao
  • People
  • Time
  • Heart

• For me, the labor movement and public education are linked as the essential building blocks to a strong middle class and a path to the American dream. It's why I went to Cornell's School of Industrial and Labor Relations as an undergrad and then to law school.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • School
  • Why
  • American

• Wearable technology is not just for consumers. It creates a tremendous opportunity for businesses, too.

  

  Parker Harris
  • Opportunity
  • Technology

• You don't appreciate life until you get to the other side. Like lying in a hospital bed.

  

  Fabrice Muamba
  • Life
  • Appreciate
  • Bed

• Every casting director I've met is a woman.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • Woman
  • Director
  • Casting

• One of the things about jail that's weird is that you're sent to a place where you're supposed to sit there and think about your actions and their consequences and why you're there. And I think now, it turns more into - the minute you go there, it's just survival.

  

  Lane Garrison
  • Why
  • Weird
  • Survival

• Breaking the world record in '92 was a very special personal moment, but I'd say my favorite moment as a decathlete was winning the Olympic gold medal.

  

  Dan O'Brien
  • World
  • Winning
  • Moment

• I hate the day, because it lendeth light To see all things, but not my love to see.

  

  Edmund Spenser
  • Hate
  • Light

• I was in the canon When Absalom was slain. I was in Llys Don Before the birth of Gwydion.

  

  Taliesin

• Racist people, interestingly, are never as polite as smokers. Have you noticed that? Smokers always go, 'Do you mind if I smoke? Oh, you do? Okay, I'll go outside and have a cigarette.' Racist people never go, 'Do you mind if I'm racist? Oh, I'll go outside … fucking blue people, eh? Coming here, steal our hamsters …'

  

  Eddie Izzard
  • People
  • Mind
  • Blue

• I recently saw The Last American Virgin, one of those early-'80s coming-of-age movies. And the actors, they look like kids you grew up with! Today's teen movies, I didn't know anybody who looked like that. The standards now are so unbelievably high.

  

  Beck
  • Up
  • Kids
  • American

• However hard they try, men cannot create a social organism, they can only create an organization. In the process of trying to create an organism they will merely create a totalitarian despotism.

  

  Aldous Huxley
  • Men
  • Trying
  • Organization

• Even in this world more things exist without our knowledge than with it and the order in creation which you see is that which you have put there, like a string in a maze, so that you shall not lose your way. For existence has its own order and that no man’s mind can compass, that mind itself being but a fact among others.

  

  Cormac McCarthy
  • World
  • Mind
  • Knowledge

• 'Believe nothing,' Apolline advised. 'This woman wouldn’t know the truth if it fucked her.'

  

  Clive Barker
  • Believe
  • Truth

• The key to making the inspections work is the Iraqi government making the crucial decision that because of the international pressure Iraq has to disarm itself.

  

  Douglas Feith
  • Work
  • Decision

• The image can only be studied through the image, by dreaming images as they gather in reverie. It is a non-sense to claim to study imagination objectively since one really receives the image only if he admires it. Already in comparing one image to another, one runs the risk of losing participation in its individuality.

  

  Gaston Bachelard
  • Imagination
  • Risk
  • Study

• I think when people see Pluto revealed by New Horizons, its satellite system, its complex surface, its atmosphere, I think they'll have a hard time saying 'That's not a planet' because it obviously will be, and I think most people are already coming to that opinion anyway, but I think that's really going to drive it home viscerally.

  

  Alan Stern
  • People
  • Time
  • Home

• It will be up to Congress to check the president's ambition of committing the U.S. to an international green scheme that will produce little or no return.

  

  John Barrasso
  • Up
  • Green
  • Ambition

• You've got too many formats adult contemporary, adult alternative, soft rock, neo-soul come on! ... I'm hoping I will fit in all the marketplaces and not be limited to one place in music.

  

  Stevie Wonder
  • Music
  • Soul
  • Rock

• Do not say, 'When I have leisure, I will study,' because you may never have leisure.

  

  Rabbi Hillel
  • Study
  • Leisure