Moishe The Beadle Quotes & Sayings

Should one continue to base one's life on a system of belief that
for all its occasional wisdom and frequent beauty
is demonstrably untrue? — Charles Templeton

The genius of the Spanish people is exquisitely subtle, without being at all acute; hence there is so much humour and so little wit in their literature. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

It was immediately apparent that it was full of tricky ingredients to balance. In fact, I found it very intriguing. What held me back from saying yes to the producer was that I wasn't sure who could play Truman. — Peter Weir

If we could stop wasting food, imagine how many more people we could feed! — Dana Cowin

Heaven is above all yet; there sits a judge, That no king can corrupt. — William Shakespeare

It was all so meaningless when I looked at it that way. It was meaningless in the same way as when I stood up from a game and then looked down on the scatter of playing pieces, and realized that they all were just bits of polished stone on a wooden board marked with squares. All the meaning they'd had moments before when I'd been trying to win a game were meanings that I'd imbued them with. Of themselves, neither they nor the board had any significance. — Robin Hobb

Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good. — Benjamin Franklin

He's a world-famous name to people who care about his music, but there are many people who have never heard of George Gershwin and those numbers increase. — Michael Feinstein

Always be polite to possible murderers: that was the twenty-four-hour-shopping philosophy. — Kate Griffin

On the seventh day of Passover, the curtain finally rose: the Germans arrested the leaders of the Jewish community. From that moment on, everything happened very quickly. The race toward death had begun. First edict: Jews were prohibited from leaving their residences for three days, under penalty of death. Moishe the Beadle came running to our house. "I warned you," he shouted. And left without waiting for a response. The same day, the Hungarian police — Elie Wiesel

There exists everywhere a medium in things, determined by equilibrium. — Dmitri Mendeleev

There is no beauty or romance or mystery in the sea except for the men that sail abroad upon it, and those who stay at home and dream of them. — Lord Dunsany

If the rabble were lopped off at one end and the aristocrats at the other, all would be well with the country. — Andrew Johnson

Here stands a girl clutching a knife. There is grease on the stove, blood in the air, and angry words piled in the corners. We are trained not to see it, not to see any of it ... Someone just ripped off my eyelids. — Laurie Halse Anderson