Shimas Menu Quotes & Sayings

Remember that often we will not know the small details of our life mission — Sunday Adelaja

And he pictured her down below, turning slowly in the currents, her skin pale blue in the cold rays of sunlight slanting down through the water, her hair flowing lazily around her face. — Richard Laymon

Rabbi Moshe Weinberger of Mesivta Beis Shraga related how his father used to say that on Purim, the handle of the gragger (noisemaker) we spin is beneath the gragger itself, while on Chanukah the handle of the dreidel (four-sided top) we spin is on top. Purim, he expounded, represents human initiative, an "awakening from below," while Chanukah represents Divine intervention, an "awakening from above." On Purim, we stir ourselves with drink, joy, a hearty meal and other activities. On Chanukah, we light a candle that we are not allowed to use for any purpose other than to gaze at its flame. We just sit back and look. We let Hashem take over. We remind ourselves that Hashem is running the show. — Yaakov Astor

I was a big reader. I could spend whole days absorbed in a book, whole weekends in the library or the park, completely oblivious to my surroundings. 'Escapism', I suppose they'd call it, but I never really liked that term much myself. I mean, who is it exactly who gets to decide which parts of your life are real and which parts are only allowed to count as an escape from that reality? I preferred to think that good books were my real life and all the other stuff - school, chores, all the rest of it - was just an interruption. — Jess Vallance

My relationship with my wife is fraught with all of the problems that any couples face, but there is a sense of humor that we have about it and a real desire to want to make it better. — Joe Swanberg

Eventually, when the universe expands enough, all that will be left is the dark energy. — Leonard Susskind

One beautiful diamond is worth more than a mountain of stones, and one virtuous act of acquiescence and submission is better than an abundance of good works done for others. — Vincent De Paul

F. Scott Fitzgerald thought that prolonging his adolescence would protect his talent. — Mason Cooley

For me, a good YA novel is the best kind of comfort food. — Hallie Ephron

It was the kind of conversation you could only hold in whispers. — Aimee Bender

The level of outbreak is beyond anything we've seen-or even imagined. — Tom Frieden

Yield to him who opposes you; by yielding you conquer. — Ovid