Codebreakers Answers Quotes & Sayings

[I]t is no doubt true that our image of what a messiah might look like may keep us from recognizing the real thing when it stands before us. Could it be that we have embellished the long-awaited event with so many aggadic flourishes that we can no longer recognize the reality when it happens? Could our overly literal reading of our sages' poetic descriptions have led us to overlook completely the miracle as it happened?
One of the dangers of taking the statements and speculations of our sages as literal truth - when they were not meant as such - is the distortion of our expectations. — Nathan Lopes Cardozo

The happier time, the quicker it passes — Pliny The Younger

Willpower works for a few weeks, or maybe a month or two at best. — Rick Warren

The result of information overload is usually distraction, and it dilutes your focus and takes you off your game. — Zig Ziglar

I'm going to be doing exactly what I'm doing now - teaching people about animals. — Bindi Irwin

Positive life, positive deed. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Poetry is the most mistaught subject in any school because we teach poetry by form and not by content. — Nikki Giovanni

He was there alone with himself, collected, tranquil, adoring, comparing the serenity of his heart with the serenity of the skies, moved in the darkness by the visible splendors of the constellations, and the invisible splendor of God, opening his soul to the thoughts which fall from the Unknown. In such moments, offering up his heart at the hour when the flowers of night inhale their perfume, lighted like a lamp in the center of the starry night, expanding his soul in ecstasy in the midst of the universal radiance of creation, he could not himself perhaps have told what was passing in his own mind; he felt something depart from him, and something descend upon him, mysterious interchanges of the depths of the soul with the depths of the universe. — Victor Hugo

Accurately recalling an entire day of fishing is like trying to push smoke back down a chimney, so you settle on these specific moments. — John Gierach

Bummer,' said Ira, his new word for "I must remain as neutral as possible" and "Your mother's a whore. — Lorrie Moore

Some people get up in the morning, don't go to the gym, they go take a shower. Well, I go to the gym, and I get a shower too. — Greg Plitt

The most successful and brilliant work a lighting designer can do is usually the least noticeable. — Jean Rosenthal