Halakha Law Quotes & Sayings

In the United States we have all across this country, we have dozens of Halakha courts, in which particularly observant Jews can take these issues of family law to an orthodox Court and have that judge, judge for them. As long as the courts don't violate the laws of the land and as long as there's a room for appeal should one or two parties disagree with the verdict, I don't see how this would have anything to do with being incompatible with what we refer to as Western ideas of democracy. — Mark Durie

Pretending/imagining is pretty much the real thing if you do it well enough (if not better) — Myself

We want to put a stop to tax havens. We want results on this, with a list of tax havens and a series of consequences. — Nicolas Sarkozy

I was involved in the robbery for a purpose, and that was because I knew somebody who could drive a diesel train. I was responsible to take along this old guy who could drive the train. — Ronald Biggs

Know me for my abilities, not my disability. — Robert M. Hensel

Base metals can be transmuted into gold by stars, and by intelligent beings who understand the processes that power stars, but by nothing else in the universe. — David Deutsch

An individual might say, "I don't want to change anyone." And yet, he might still spend a great deal of his time trying to get others to agree with his views, or trying to prevent someone from doing something he thinks will be bad for him, or trying to change people by participating in a movement over a burning issue, or voting to prevent others from doing what they want to do. In all these ways, he's trying to change others - to make them do other than what their natures lead them to do. — Harry Browne

When you're in a band, you spend the first four hundred thousand years of your career dragging around your own crap. Your speakers, speaker stands, mixing head, mics, pickups, power cables, mic cables, speaker cables, instruments, the everything. You forget something, you're screwed. You break something, you're screwed. You don't have a long enough extension cord? Screwed.
Once you hit it big, though
You're packing your shit into a late-model Mustang and a pickup truck and hoping you didn't forget anything. — Maggie Stiefvater

All my fears and cares are of this world; if there is another, an honest man has nothing to fear from it. — Robert Burns

Let us imitate nature - not each other. — Debasish Mridha

My fascination with history is as much about the present as it is about the past. — Sara Sheridan

Beijing is my favorite city in China. — Andrew Lau