Rabbi Nachman Bratslav Quotes & Sayings

The prevailing taste of the public for anecdote has been censured and ridiculed by critics, who aspire to the character of superior wisdom: but if we consider it in a proper point of view, this taste is an incontestible proof of the good sense and profoundly philosophic temper of the present times. Of the numbers who study, or at least who read history, how few derive any advantage from their labors! — Maria Edgeworth

I don't think that my films are 'literary'; they are based on the most ordinary things of life. — Eric Rohmer

I think we have to show some pride in the jersey that we are wearing, and can't quit. — Mario Lemieux

I cannot come to thee but by thee, I never come from thee without thee — Bernard

Hell is full of polite men with bone saws. — Miles Watson

You are insistent, calling again. You want me to tell you the story of Scheherazade, who rocks the sad king on her knees as she sings him tales from wonderland. Yet you know that I am not Scheherazade, and that one of the world's greatest wonders is that I am unable to enter my country or pass through the region around it. — Liana Badr

Of all joyful, smiling, ever-laughing experiences, there are none like those which spring from true religion. — Henry Ward Beecher

'Romance' is based on my entire creative process. I fall in love with an idea, obsess over it, isolate myself with it, and when I eventually introduce it to my friends, they all tell me that it's stupid. — Chuck Palahniuk

When you invest your time and energy in stuff that drags you down, you die a little bit every day. — Alan Cohen