Minyan Movie Quotes & Sayings

Everyone has a book within them. Everyone has to write it thinking, 'How will I help other people? What will the book do to touch lives?' — Joachim De Posada

Do you know the most important trait a man can have?
It is not executive ability; it is not a great mentality; it is not kindliness, nor courage, nor a sense of humor, though each of these is of tremendous importance.
In my opinion, it is the ability to make friends, which, boiled down, means the ability to see the best in man. — Dale Carnegie

I am increasingly convinced that the time has come to find a way of thinking about spirituality and ethics beyond religion altogether. — Dalai Lama

You see the profound effect literature can have on life? Who says it's all a waste of time? If only I could produce one book that left someone with that kind of ferocious grievance. If you have read one of my books, you probably feel cheated out of however much money it might have cost you, and you'll certainly begrudge the time you wasted on it. But even at my most bullish and self-aggrandizing, I can't quite make myself believe that I've actually wrecked someone's life. Any documentary evidence to the contrary will be gratefully received. — Nick Hornby

I imagine having that sixth sense, the certainty that what I'm looking for is within reach, even if it's still hidden. — Jodi Picoult

To become God (Khuda) one does not need weapons. One needs to recognize his [True] Self (Khud). The one who knows one's own Self (khud), is God (khuda). — Dada Bhagwan

Without core convictions to help us navigate, we stand uneasily on shifting sand, and we lack the solid footing with which to stage a life of principle and character. Today is a call to biblical conviction ... What is needed today is a battalion of believers who follow Christ and stand for Him and His truth. — Dennis Rainey

Words and numbers are of equal value, for in the cloak of knowledge one is warp and the other woof. — Norton Juster

CNN said that after the war, there is a plan to divide Iraq into three parts: regular, premium and unleaded. — Jay Leno

Posing as someone, or something, else is the story of many women and men who have experienced repression and made a bid for freedom. It is the story of a gay U.S. Marine who had to pretend he was straight. It is the story of a Jewish family in Nazi Germany posing as Protestants. It is the story of a black South African who tried to make his skin lighter under apartheid. — Jenny Nordberg

I wish, peevishly, that he didn't know anything about how soldiers sleep, how they protect their fellow soldiers. It would be nicer if I could share the cloaks warmth with him, if we could lie with our faces together, whispering into the night. — Margaret Peterson Haddix

Examine then, and see if He be not the dispenser of kingdoms, who is Lord at once of the world which is ruled, and of man himself who rules; if He have not ordained the changes of dynasties, with their appointed seasons, who was before all time, and made the world a body of times; if the rise and the fall of states are not the work of Him, under whose sovereignty the human race once existed without states at all. — Tertullian

You must be willing, determined and persistent to achieve your goals — Lailah Gifty Akita

Skies, thought Old Bailey, in a satisfied sort of a way. Never a two of them alike. Not by day nor not by night, neither. — Neil Gaiman