Rishonim Quotes & Sayings

I am ready for the rest of my life to rise — Jean Houston

I think any start has to be a false start because really there's no way to start. You just have to force yourself to sit down and turn off the quality censor. And you have to keep the censor off, or you start second-guessing every other sentence. Sometimes the suspicion of a possible false start comes through, and you have to suppress it to keep writing. But it gets more persistent. And the moment you know it's really a false start is when you start ... it's hard to put into words. — Elif Batuman

Am I really a good mathematician? — Norbert Wiener

All those years, what I did for them ... And they didn't try to stop you from taking me. There it was, the giant pain that cracked me in two if I thought about it too long. — Sarah J. Maas

For a photographer, it's a necessity that you can shoot stuff magically. Accidents are necessary, but after I take the photograph, it's not over. I work on it more. — Rinko Kawauchi

Octavius Winslow was a prominent evangelical preacher in the 1800s. He said of the Holy Spirit, "It is his aim . . . to increase our happiness by making us more holy."[717] — Randy Alcorn

A guy's reputation is the first thing you hear about — Jerry Della Femina

If you have to put a matchbox under your chair, you need to straighten out your floor. — John McConnell

The women you've slept with, the ones you never did but primed for a future encounter, the ones who seemed interested but then suddenly stopped texting: Unless you do something horribly wrong, they never completely disappear. A lonely night, a cheating boyfriend, a sudden breakup, an attack of low self-esteem, an attack of high self-esteem - anything can, out of the blue, send them scrolling through their address book looking for validation, for security, for conversation, for adoration, for the fantasy of you filling some empty space in her life. — Neil Strauss

As the crow flies-a popular and picturesque expression to denote a straight line. — William Henry Maule

Focusing isn't just an optical activity, it is also a mental one. — Bridget Riley

History is a tragedy, not a morality tale. — I. F. Stone

Anything that raises any internal honesty about gay life is inherently suspect. — Andrew Sullivan

Milk-livered man,
That bear'st a cheek for blows, a head for wrongs;
Who hast not in thy brows an eye discerning
Thine honor from thy suffering; [that not know'st
Fools do those villains pity who are punished
Ere they have done their mischief. Where's thy drum?
France spreads his banners in our noiseless land,
With plumed helm thy state begins to threat,
Whilst thou, a moral fool, sits still and cries
'Alack, why does he so?'] — William Shakespeare

When starting a new business, people get blinders on. They have an idea, they stick to the idea, but they don't test it or check with their potential audience to see if this is a good idea. It happens all the time. Talk to your customers, see what they like and what you can change or not change. — JJ Ramberg