Israel Lipkin Quotes & Sayings

I believe also that often the Evil One works through second causes. And I know that he can impel his victims to do evil in such a way that the blame falls on a righteous man, and the Evil One rejoices then as the righteous man is burned in the place of his succubus. — Umberto Eco

Boxing is good for the livelihood but mainly, money don't really mean nothing. — Muhammad Ali

All reform except a moral one will prove unavailing. — Thomas Carlyle

The truly monumental can only come about by means of the most exact and refined relation between parts. Since each thing carries both a meaning of its own and an associated meaning in relation to something else - its essential value is relative. We speak of the mood we experience when looking at a landscape. This mood results from the relation of certain things rather than from their separate actualities. This is because objects do not in themselves possess the total effect they give when interrelated. — Hans Hofmann

They were students of the expressions of young women as they went in to confession, and they saw them as they came out and read the nature of the sin. — John Steinbeck

It is noble to be shy, illustrious not to know how to act, great not to have a gift for living. — Fernando Pessoa

Once you dive into the battlefield . . . there is only fighting with all your heart, toe-to-toe with whosoever your opponent might be. — Reki Kawahara

You have to figure out how to survive depression, which is really not easy because when you're depressed you're more exhausted than you've ever been in your life and your brain is lying to you and you feel unworthy of the time and energy (which you often don't even have) needed to get help. That's why you have to rely on friends and family and strangers to help you when you can't help yourself. — Jenny Lawson

Life was a too-tall stack of books that had started to lean to one side, and each new day was another book on top. — Rebecca Stead

A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself. — Michel De Montaigne