Halachically Haute Quotes & Sayings

If you would rise, shun luxury, for luxury lowers and degrades. — Saint John Chrysostom

I think there's a kind of desperate hope built into poetry that one really wants, hopelessly, to save the world. One is trying to say everything that can be said for the things that one loves while there's still time. — W.S. Merwin

I had never been in a supermarket before coming to America. At home, my parents wouldn't let me open the refrigerator, because they worried I'd damage the door by opening it too many times. — Wendi Deng Murdoch

I loved the scent of the wallflowers in the evening. — Terence Stamp

The odds are loaded toward a path of least resistance in several ways. We often choose a path because it is the only one we see. When I get on an elevator, for example, I turn and face front along with everyone else. It rarely occurs to me to do it any other way, such as facing the rear. If I did, I'd soon feel how some paths bring on more social resistance than others. — Allan G. Johnson

I get all my good ideas sort of at one o' clock in the morning, and I tried for a while to behave like normal people. — Hans Zimmer

With no other choices open to us, we'd turned our gaze seaward. The oceans were our America: they reached farther than any prairie, untamed as on the first day of creation. Nobody owned them. — Carsten Jensen

Emotions come and go and can't be controlled so there's no reason to worry about them. That in the end, people should be judged by their actions since in the end it was actions that defined everyone. — Nicholas Sparks

When you jerk off, you're saying "Hey", I care about me. — Andrew Dice Clay