Nochum Lansky Quotes & Sayings

Did You wrap yourself inside the unexpected so we might know that Love would go that far? — Francesca Battistelli

Who'd deny a poor criple his cane?
If the cripple is you, then any man with sense. — Leigh Bardugo

Neither reproaches nor encouragements are able to revive a faith that is waning. — Nathalie Sarraute

I am ashamed
to call this love human
and afraid of God
to call it divine — Jalaluddin Rumi

You only live once, buy Picassos whenever possible. — James Frey

So many people, if the truth were known, live their lives on two levels. The principles they fight about are often at odds with the complicated and often frustrated lives they live. This is why there is so much intensity. — Walter Wink

What should our second generation have done, what should it do with the knowledge of the horrors of the extermination of the Jews? We should not believe we can comprehend the incomprehensible, we may not compare the incomparable, we may not inquire because to inquire is to make the horrors an object of discussion, even if the horrors themselves are not questioned, instead of accepting them as something in the face of which we can only fall silent in revulsion, shame and guilt. Should we only fall silent in revulsion, shame and guilt? To what purpose? — Bernhard Schlink

We do not pray at all until we are at our wits' end. — Oswald Chambers

God knows the motives of every man. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I want everything or nothing. A life for a life, taking one and giving up another without hesitation and beyond recall. Or else better have nothing! — Ivan Turgenev

The last remnants of Deanna the child--the idealist, the sheltered elite--had been torn loose by tonight's tragedies, slain with the same bullet that had felled her would-be killer. She had no idea who the new person inhabiting this shell of her old self would become. The realization frightened her. — Leslie Ann Moore

If you want to move beyond hive-docility, you must become God the Moralist. — Timothy Leary

I get so into the moment. — Dane Cook

I don't think being beautiful takes away from your credibility. — Soledad O'Brien