Elisheva Kaplan Quotes & Sayings

Stroke of the pen. Law of the land. Kinda cool. — Paul Begala

We have taught our people to use prayer too much as a means of comfort - not in the original and heroic sense of uplifting, inspiring, strengthening, but in the more modern and baser sense of soothing sorrow, dulling pain, and drying tears - the comfort of the cushion, not the comfort of the Cross. — Geoffrey Studdert Kennedy

The genuine essence of truth never dies. — Thomas Carlyle

I don't want to lean back into the past, or forward into the future. I don't want to wish the present moment away. The truth is in the present moment. The great paradox is that when I'm really able to do that, time slows down and opens up. Time feels suddenly and inexplicably without end. — Dani Shapiro

To every man there openeth a way, and ways, and a way. And the high soul climbs the high way, and the low soul gropes the low. And in between, on the misty flats, the rest drift to and fro. But to every man there openeth a high way and a low, and every man decideth the way his soul shall go ... — William Arthur Dunkerley

It is not the smallest use to try to make people good, unless you try at the same time and they feel that you are trying to make them happy. And you rarely can make another happy, unless you are happy yourself. — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

It felt like the blisters on my feet had coupled off and started forming little blister families. Tonight sucked. — Kiersten White

And girls tell me he's hot." He grinned and finished, "I wouldn't know, seein' as I'm a guy but I look like him and I'm smokin' hot so he's gotta be hot. — Kristen Ashley

It wasn't just a matter of hiding what you really felt. If you hid your feelings well enough, it actually changed you. A — Neal Stephenson

When the opposite of your prayer occurs, your prayer hasn't been ignored; it's been considered & refused for your ultimate good. — C.S. Lewis

My job involves searching for 'lost' quotations - that is, trying to find out who came up with a quotable saying that lingers in someone's mind and which they wish to use for their own purpose and which they cannot find in conventional dictionaries of quotation. — Nigel Rees