Halachic Quotes & Sayings

What an unequaled gift for disaster you have. — Naomi Novik

The only person who can fix education is the student. — Oliver DeMille

Jews with unconventional identities should not have to wrestle alone at the intersection where their tradition seems to clash with their integrity as loving human beings. Like Moses responding to the travail of his brothers (Ex. 2:11), a caring halachic Jewish community should respond seriously to the heartfelt appeal of our contemporary sisters. — Vanessa L Ochs

Unfortunately, the world has not been designed for the convenience of mathematicians. — Benoit Mandelbrot

It is always easier to destroy a complex system than to selectively alter it. — Roby James

Be awesome! Be calm and magnificent like the moon. — Debasish Mridha

I'm still an old-school reporter at heart. Writing fiction satisfies my journalistic need to hear and relay the testimony of everyday people at the center of events. — Karen Traviss

It's important not to lay in a bubble bath drinking champagne. It's important to take part in what life's all about. — Lena Olin

The most powerful nation on earth should be able to pass a fair, effective immigration law that combines compassion with responsibility and does not injure hard working Americans who are taxed up to here. — Bill O'Reilly

A people group made up mostly of the tribe of Judah, but also Benjamin, and the Levites as well as a remnant that fled the idolatry that Jeroboam imposed on the Northern Kingdom.[20] During the time of Christ, the term Jew was a generic term for those who had returned from Babylonian exile, who were worshiping the God of Israel as either ethnic Jews or those by formal halachic (according to Rabbinical, and not Biblical) conversion to the religion of Judaism as evidenced by baptism and circumcision — Tyler Dawn Rosenquist

Comes to shove, they're forced to make choices neither are eager to make, and Jesse and Rowen have to face what their lives might look like without the other. Can two people with such tragic pasts and different presents expect a promising future together? Whatever the answer, they'll need a lot more than love to make it. All she wants to do is forget. Forget the memory of walking in on her boyfriend in the middle of, well, another girl. Forget how she had her entire life planned out. And forget about — Anonymous

After all these years, I definitely associate having a pen in my hand with having an ashtray just out of eye line. — Tom Stoppard

It is natural to be impacted more deeply by pain than by pleasure. — Abhishek Ratna

it was the thought of being injected with tiny machines that was making me queasy. Microscopic alien robots were swimming in my blood. It was creepy. — Craig Alanson

Ugly ducklings often turn into beautiful swans when they are tested. — Sudha Murty

The most significant halachic authority of the last 100 years, whose positions helped fashion a balanced and moderate Judaism. — Ovadia Yosef