Rock Redemption Quotes & Sayings

We seldom stop to think - and we certainly should do so more often - that in taking the words of our sages as a description of mere fact, we may miss the deeper meanings which they meant to convey. As a rule, aggadah should not be taken literally; rather, it must be interpreted with the understanding that a higher truth is being alluded to - a truth that is beyond historical perspective, philological expression, or the dimensions of scientific observations. Agaddah speaks to that part of us that understands but cannot articulate what it understands. It allows us to go beyond the realms of the definable, perceivable, and demonstrable. In this sense, aggadah is a form of religious metaphor, a mirror that enables us to form mental images of the indescribable. — Nathan Lopes Cardozo

I am not a saint; I am a sinner. I want to sin again and
again and again. — S. Jae-Jones

What I hear as noise is perceived as music by my teenage grandchildren, at a fairly primitive level of perceptual experience. And — Noam Chomsky

The web is a meritocracy, where passion and persistence are what place us in positions of influence. — Anonymous

A rock was sticking out of the water, jagged and pointed, covered with moss
a remnant of the Ice Age. It had withstood the rains, the snows, the frost, the heat. It was afraid of no one. It did not need redemption, it had already been redeemed. — Isaac Bashevis Singer

I do resent that when you're in the most cool, powerful time of your life, which is your 40s, you're put out to pasture. I think women are so much cooler when they're older. So it's a drag that we're not allowed to age. — Rosanna Arquette

I'm not too easily distracted now I've had practice, but I write with nothing to look at. I used to rent an office that just had a view of a wall! — Jane Goldman

Buffy Summers: (to Spike) I could NEVER be your girl! — Buffy The Vampire Slayer Writers

Great knowledge can be lonely. — Erin Hunter

Religion of the Self [Soul] is that where no difficulty or trouble arises for anyone or any living being of 'our' own accord. — Dada Bhagwan

Peter Dinklage is one of my oldest friends from New York! — Sam Trammell

When you hit rock bottom, don't forget you still have something to share or to give to the others. This is where redemption lays. — Robert S. Tudor

I knew that people sometimes died climbing mountains. But at the age of twenty-three, personal mortality - the idea of my own death - was still largely outside my conceptual grasp. When I decamped from Boulder for Alaska, my head swimming with visions of glory and redemption on the Devils Thumb, it didn't occur to me that I might be bound by the same cause-and-effect relationships that governed the actions of others. Because I wanted to climb the mountain so badly, because I had thought about the Thumb so intensely for so long, it seemed beyond the realm of possibility that some minor obstacle like the weather or crevasses or rime-covered rock might ultimately thwart my will. At — Jon Krakauer

When she closed the door, she took the happiness with her. — Nalini Singh