Bnai Zion Foundation Quotes & Sayings

No word of commiseration can make a burden feel one feather's weight lighter to the slave who must carry it. — Walter Scott

Movement is the freedom of the body; stillness, of the mind. — Marty Rubin

She smoothed the long sleeve of her tight, orange t-shirt. "What? You've never seen a woman wear more than one shirt before?"
Odin's mouth closed and opened a few times before words finally came out. "She's like a fuckin' seven layer burrito someone forgot was in the back of the fridge for six months."
She had to laugh. How could she not with such vivid imagery coming from someone who dressed like he was going on an unholy crusade at any moment? — Jennifer Turner

I encourage young people to refrain from putting themselves in dangerous situations in the name of validating themselves sexually. — Christopher Rice

When language in common use in any country becomes irregular and depraved, it is followed by their ruin and degradation. For what do terms used without skill or meaning, which are at once corrupt and misapplied, denote but a people listless, supine, and ripe for servitude? — John Milton

Let the river roll which way it will, cities will rise on its banks. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Film can express things that computers never will. Film is a series of photographs separated by split seconds of darkness. Film is light and shadow. — Annie Baker

Writers, because they write, are condemned never to be readers of their own stories ... The memory of first putting a story into words will always prevent writers from reading their work as an ordinary reader would. — Elena Ferrante

To the totality of purposes of the perfect Law there belong the abandonment, depreciation, and restraint of desires in so far as possible. — Maimonides