Rabbinate Quotes & Sayings

It remains a mystery to me why some of that [pulp] fiction should be judged inferior to the rafts and rafts of bad social [literary] fiction which continues to be treated by literary editors as if it were somehow superior, or at least worthier of our attention. The careerist literary imperialism of the Bloomsbury years did a lot to produce fiction's present unseemly polarities. — Michael Moorcock

To be human means to feel inferior. — Alfred Adler

I am not a teacher, but I am a friend who likes to kindle your heart and awaken your mind. — Debasish Mridha

I sit far back in my seat, my right foot braced comfortably against the instrument panel, listening to the steady thrumming of the engines, content to reflect that I have at least come a long way since my barnstorming days. Not so long ago, in a rock-fenced field nearby, a young man named Blauvelt stepped away from a sputtering biplane and first sent me into the sky alone. — Ernest K. Gann

'Higher Power' was the result of a personal experience: a friend of mine who went through the process of addiction and recovery. It's a very, very tough thing - very easy to become addicted and very, very hard to become a recovering addict. — Tom Scholz

The ones that hurt the most always say the least. — Fannie Flagg

The invisible and the non-existent look very much alike. — Delos McKown

I'm trying to write for people my age. And my inspiration over the years has changed dramatically. — John Mellencamp

My mother, whose family was heavily rabbinic, said she wanted me to continue the family tradition in the rabbinate. My father said he wanted me to be a scholar of the Talmud, but he wanted me to make my living in science. — Norman Lamm

Moderate exercise every day will impart strength to the muscles, which without exercise become flabby and enfeebled. — Ellen G. White

I first came to Jewish-Catholic relations in 1963, while studying for the rabbinate at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York. — David Novak

...Oh god. I'm one of those girls."
"What girls?" he asked, perplexed.
"Those girls. The ones in all those books and TV shows. Some dumb high school girl falls in love with some supernatural guy, and he's all, 'Behold, I am five million years old!' and she's all, 'Oh my god, how can you ever love pathetic little me!' and he's like, 'Because of destiny!' or whatever. It's just so...ew. You know? — Lindsay Ribar

You loved to teach. In time, you tried the rabbinate. And you failed. But a great Jewish scholar said two words you would later invoke many times with many of us: "try again." And you did. Thank God you did. — Mitch Albom

Writing is immensely difficult. The short forms especially. — E.L. Doctorow

Endeavor to live the life. — Dean Koontz

How many times has He delivered me! Yet, alas! How distrustful and ungrateful is my heart even until the present! — John Newton

Ben's tongue is like sunscreen ... It's good for your health and should be applied liberally. — John Green

I've always loved tales of broken lovers who roam through countrysides singing their stories of woe and separation, their honey- sweet longing for the next life when they can suddenly be re united. It makes other people happy, you see. It makes people grateful that it hasn't happened to them. — Roshani Chokshi

From its earliest days in the nineteenth century, and until the Holocaust, the Orthodox rabbinate in eastern Europe was not enthusiastic about the Zionist movement, which at the time was led by irreligious Jews. — Elliott Abrams