Israel Cohen 1879 Quotes & Sayings

A good maxim allows you to have the last word without even starting a conversation. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

For every theory there has to be counterevidence
otherwise science wouldn't progress. — Haruki Murakami

Yes, I've changed. I used to believe in everything that you do, maybe even more firmly. But then in Smyrna, Talib-effendi said to me: 'When you see a young man reaching for the sky, grab him by the leg and pull him back down to the ground.' And he pulled me back down to the ground. 'You are destined to live here,' he scolded me. 'So live here! And live as nicely as you can, but without shame. It is better that God ask you: why did you not do that? rather than: why did you do that?"'
"And what are you now?"
"A wanderer on wide roads where I meet good and bad people, who have the same worries and troubles as people do here, who have the same trivial joys as people do everywhere."
"What would happen if everyone took your path?"
"The world would be happier. Maybe. — Mesa Selimovic

I have a long list of different smiles that you can do, and every model should be equipped. Everybody can't handle the long list ... That's for, you know, advanced. — Tyra Banks

He wanted her to be good, to perform acts of service, come to mass, believe on Jesus, and not make his burden for her salvation too heavy. Between them was an unspoken agreement. He would do his duty, and she would do hers. For many years, this silent understanding between Julian and her priest had been unsatisfying. She craved more: a better understanding of God and God's will. But she had long known not to ask her many questions to her priest. She knew that he certainly would wish to hear nothing of her visions. — Amy Frykholm

Eye contact is what keeps us civilized. — Caroline Kepnes

The assumption is that if I expend myself for myself in the end all I'll be left with is myself, and that alone is frightening. But what I've failed to consider is that I have to expend so much of myself living for myself that in the end I'm really left with very little of myself, and that is unimaginably frightening. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

Christopher Savage have calculated that in reasonable models, we expect about ten dark-matter particles to interact with the atoms in a typical human body every year. The effects of every individual interaction are pretty negligible, so don't worry about getting a dark matter stomachache. — Sean Carroll

I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them. — Isaac Asimov

Let no more gods or exploiters be served Let us learn rather to love one another. — Francesc Ferrer I Guardia

Win with me or watch me win. — Keshia Chante

All really frank people are amusing, and would remain so if they could remember that other people may sometimes want to be frank and amusing too. — Ada Leverson

Because obstacles will always present themselves, the hardest obstacle of all is developing a way of living, a way of practicing your approach to life that allows you to keep a healthy perspective on things. — Adam Rodriguez

There are common denominators that unite all members of al-Nahda: There is no one in al-Nahda who doubts about Islam There is no one in al-Nahda that believes in extremist views of Islam. — Rashid Al-Ghannushi