Judah Rosenthal Quotes & Sayings

People will change their habits quickly IF they have a strong reason for doing so. — Thomas L. Friedman

Sadness was so claustrophobic. — Kiran Desai

I always hated school. — Paz De La Huerta

The candle-end was flickering out in the battered candlestick, dimly lighting up in the poverty stricken room the murderer and the harlot who had so strangely been reading together the eternal book. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

My journey is about believing that people will actually stick around. It's a hard thing to believe when you don't have a prototype for it. I've had to develop that for myself. — Jake Weber

I have a suspicion that you are all mad,' said Dr. Renard, smiling sociably; 'but God forbid that madness should in any way interrupt friendship. — G.K. Chesterton

Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in his never wholly successful attempts to liberate himself from necessity. — Hannah Arendt

It's real time intensive so there's not much time for goofing around, but we are really close and we have a good time with each other. It's a great group. — Will Estes

Until you get the measure of your own soul, Jim, don't be quick to condemn a priest, or anyone else for that matter. I'm not scolding you, sweetheart," she said hurriedly. "It's just that, until you've been there, you can't know what it's like to hold yourself to promises you made in good faith a long time ago. Do you hang in there, or cut your losses? Soldier on, or admit defeat and try to make the best of things?" She'd looked a little sheepish then and admitted, "You know, I used to be a real hardass about stuff like this. No retreat, no surrender! But now? Jimmy, I honestly don't know if the world would be better or worse if we all held ourselves to the vows of our youth. — Mary Doria Russell

Is the power who is jealous of our prosperity, a proper power to govern us? — Thomas Paine

Sometimes, the best thing we can change about a situation is our perspective. — Joan Gable