Bedecken Jewish Wedding Quotes & Sayings

The thing I learned when I was playing was that your best way of winning was to make it difficult for the other team to score in the last three innings. — Tony La Russa

There are a lot of valid reasons for wanting to feel safer. But hiding from pain or perceived threats behind a wall of weight is not the way to go about it. First of all, being a fat adult will never change the circumstances of anyone's childhood. The past is past. All you'll gain is more misery and low self-worth in your life now. — Jane Olson

Liberals are more likely to see people as victims of circumstance and oppression, and doubt whether individuals can climb without governmental help. My own analysis using 2005 survey data from Syracuse University shows that about 90 percent of conservatives agree that "While people may begin with different opportunities, hard work and perseverance can usually overcome those disadvantages." Liberals - even upper-income liberals - are a third less likely to say this. — Arthur C. Brooks

Stories continue in all directions to include even the retelling of the stories themselves, as legend is informed by interpretation, and interpretation is informed by time. — Garth Stein

The like is not the friend of the like in as far as he is like; still the good may be the friend of the good in as far as he is good. — Plato

Libel actions, when we look at them in perspective, are an ornament of a civilized society. They have replaced, after all, at least in most cases, a resort to weapons in defense of a reputation. — Henry Anatole Grunwald

If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it. — Lucy Larcom

It's no secret that most memoirs are really self-help books in disguise. — Nathan Hill

The first and foremost duty of the high school in teaching mathematics is to emphasize methodical work in problem solving ... The teacher who wishes to serve equally all his students, future users and nonusers of mathematics, should teach problem solving so that it is about one-third mathematics and two-thirds common sense. — George Polya

Prudishness is pretense of innocence without innocence. Women have to remain prudish as long as men are sentimental, dense, and evil enough to demand of them eternal innocence and lack of education. For innocence is the only thing which can ennoble lack of education. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

The great task of our time is to blow up all existing institutions to destroy. — Henrik Ibsen

The courage of husbands is directly proportionate to the proximity of the wife. — Steven Erikson

The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition. — Carl Sagan