Schleger Yiddish Dictionary Quotes & Sayings

To bear adversity with meek submission to the will of God; to endure chastisement with all long-suffering and joyfulness; to appear cheerful amid surrounding gloom, hopeful amidst desponding circumstances, happy in God when there is nothing else to make us happy; he who does this has indeed made great advances in the divine life. — John Angell James

Only in academia did people talk such bullshit and expect to be taken seriously — Josh Lanyon

People feeling pity for me is as offensive as them feeling inspired by me. — Christy Leigh Stewart

I'm a Taurean, so I'm very passionate and determined and materialistic. Down the years, I've spent a lot of money and saved a bit of money and had a lot of fun. — Martine McCutcheon

A small country cannot contend with a great; the few cannot contend with the many; the weak cannot contend with the strong — Mencius

So much of democracy is built on antagonism. It institutionalizes a certain kind of antagonism. This is not to say that we shouldn't have any democracy, but the fact is that democracy has hardened political identities and made them more violent. — Pankaj Mishra

It's kind of hard to get deep with Rodgers and Hammerstein. I can't think of a moral in the music - it's just fun. — Jeff Long

'Miele' is a code name for a girl who has a double life. — Valeria Golino

Never fall out of love with life — Judi Dench

A sense of humor is rare. It isn't telling a joke about how there are three ways to get to heaven. It's being in a restaurant and hearing someone say, Everyone's got their tale of woe, and then turning around and saying, Unfortunately, in life, there's more woe than tail. — Rodney Dangerfield

Many foreigners have asked me how we made the Danish style. And I've answered that it ... was rather a continuous process of purification, and for me of simplification, to cut down to the simplest possible elements of four legs, a seat and combined top rail and arm rest. — Hans Wegner

I think the reason kids get into drugs and smoking is they don't have anything to do. — Richard Thompson

In all your years as a priest, I'm sure you've been asked this many times: 'Why does he do this if he loves us? Why does he shake down our homes? Destroy our cities? Let our children starve?' They ask these questions, not because they are confused... but because they suspect the truth. And you share their suspicions. — Richard Finney