Barmitzvah Quotes & Sayings

Either live in reality or get left behind in imagination — Michael Strong

I think that cynicism can often be mistaken for wisdom. — Sarah Polley

[Herbert] Hoover, had he been challenged with the overpowering implausibility of his notion that economic life is a race that is won by the ablest runner, would have had a ready answer from his own biography: had he not started in life as a poor orphan and worked in the mines for a pittance, and had he not become first a millionaire and then President of the United States? There are times when nothing is more misleading than personal experience, and the man whose experience has embraced only success is likely to be a forlorn and alien figure when his whole world begins to fail. — Richard Hofstadter

What life have you if you have not life together? — T. S. Eliot

Having the courage to take the steps we always wanted to take is the only way of showing that we trust in God. — Paulo Coelho

The way to fill your life with love is very simple: if you want more love, give more love. — Deepak Chopra

Good and evil exist in all of us.
a moment's temptation takes us on a wrong path.
On that path may lurk foul fiends,
inhuman, yet feeding, needing
all our weaknesses: vanity, indolence and envy,
Easy fruits for evil appetites,
our flesh, a tasty afterthought,
our bones flung asunder. — Emmanuelle De Maupassant

Human life is a series of mistakes justified by reason; there is no escape from it since the reason is the first mistake born out of a process subsequently understood as the very life by the very reason! — Thiruman Archunan

The truth is that I used to read J.J. bedtime stories. He came up to me at the FOX commissary about four years ago and he said, "Do you remember what you gave me for my Barmitzvah?" I said no. He said, "You gave me the annotated Sherlock Holmes and my son is reading it now." It was the gift that kept on giving. — Nicholas Meyer

All that impedes thee from the golden round, Which fate and metaphysical aid doth seem (25) To have thee crowned withal. — William Shakespeare

Sticking with a marriage. That's true grit, man. — Jeff Bridges

He thinks he'll be remembered as the villain in the story. But I forgot to tell him that the villain is usually the person who locks up the maiden and throws away the key. He was the one who let me out. — Sarah J. Maas

I'm here as a product of process of evolution, which doesn't make very many exceptions. And which rates life relatively cheaply. — Christopher Hitchens

God's promises are all on condition of humble obedience. — Ellen G. White

Everything is always decided for reasons other than the real merits of the case — John Maynard Keynes

I see no room in holy Scripture for any sexual activity outside of matrimony. — George Carey