Elazar Sontag Quotes & Sayings

Begin, then, where you are, not where you want to be. Begin stuck in the doldrums of your false story - if that is where you are. Begin there because, in truth, there is no other place to start from. Tell — Florence Falk

I just used a very simple way to explain what are deep ideas, and why can't that be literature? — Mian Mian

This isn't divinity, Eli. It's science and chance. — V.E Schwab

For God is the source of all good things, some directly (as with the Old and New Testaments), and some indirectly (as with philosophy). But it might be that philosophy was given to the Greeks immediately and directly, until such time as the Lord should also call the Greeks. For philosophy acted as a "custodian" to bring the Greeks to Christ, just as the law brought the Hebrews.10 — Mark A. Tietjen

One day he finally got a math concept (converting between hours and fractions of hours, as I remember) he'd been struggling and struggling with, so I praised him up and down, and told him it was a good day, a day to remember. "It was just one minute," he said. "What's the rest of the day gonna do for me?" "Sometimes you only get one good minute a day," I said. "You just have to make the most of it. — Claire Cook

I am trying to be unfamiliar with what I'm doing. — John Cage

He nodded toward the sub. "This is going to be a blow-off day."
I dragged my mind away from magical intrigue. After being homeschooled for most of my life, some parts of the "normal" school world was a mystery. "What does that mean, exactly."
"Usually teacher leave subs a lesson plan, telling them what to do. I saw Ms. Terwilliger left. It said, 'Distract them. — Richelle Mead

Velva wasn't merely a rose among the thorns, the lily of the valleys, she was Empress amongst the stars and planet. — Mav Skye

I'm after a woman who likes sex but doesn't put the lust part above the intelligence part. She could have a hundred partners for all I care, just as long as they've been vetted for psychopathic tendencies. I have four rules. Number one: don't invite a person into your body if you wouldn't invite her into your kitchen. Number two: the act needs to take place in a clean environment. Number three: precautions need to be taken to protect from disease and pregnancy. And Number four: don't ration the passion, i.e. put you best fuck forward. — Penny Reid

The thing most worth doing in this modern world [is to] create jobs that men can work at, and be proud of, and make money by their work. — Nevil Shute

The dream shows how recollections of one's everyday life can be worked into a structure where one person can be substituted for another, where unacknowledged feelings like envy and guilt can find expression, where ideas can be linked by verbal similarities, and where the laws of logic can be suspended. — Sigmund Freud

I would have played Tom Finney in his overcoat - there would have been four men marking him when we were kickin' in. — Bill Shankly