Gittin 57a Quotes & Sayings

The 'Lord's Prayer' is totally of life. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Immanuel Kant famously claimed that 'he who wills the ends wills the means,' but he never spent much time in Washington. — Elliott Abrams

We've created a system that demands almost no engagement with our food; we've wrung all the responsibility and sweat equity from the process. It's not that we're getting something for nothing - after all, we do pay for our food, and we suffer the consequences of dining from the industrial trough. But charging a package of center-cut pork chops to your Visa is a hell of a lot different than facing down the source of those chops with a .22 in one hand and a well-honed knife in the other. — Ben Hewitt

It was a cruel city, but it was a lovely one; a savage city, yet it had such tenderness; a bitter, harsh, and violent catacomb of stone an steel and tunneled rock, slashed savagely with light, and roaring, fighting a constant ceaseless warfare of men and of machinery; and yet it was so sweetly and so delicately pulsed, as full of warmth, of passion, and of love, as it was full of hate. — Thomas Wolfe

The key to greatness is knowing when to take the hand that has been offered. — Sam Crescent

Courtesy demands that you, when you are a guest, shall show neither annoyance nor disappointment
no matter what happens. — Emily Post

I am extremely proud to have the honour and privilege to be the Premier of this great state of Victoria. — Denis Napthine

Hollywood is something imagined ... acting is something crafted. — Laura Vandervoort

When men start affording more rights to women, maybe we'll be nicer to the ones we don't like. But for now, I know that I myself am too busy trying to preserve my rights and faculties to take care of a man's fragile ego. — Leanna Renee Hieber

Six years of denying that he's the orbit of my world. — A.G. Howard

We must all learn to hear what we do not like. The question is not, 'Is it pleasant?'
but, 'Is it true?' — Charles Spurgeon

Found, I told myself. Try to get found. — Jennifer Weiner

From out there on the moon, international politics looks so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck, drag him a quarter of a million miles out, and say, 'Look at that, you son of a bitch. — Ed Mitchell