Shtreimel Center Quotes & Sayings

I don't like to have to pan for gold when I read. — Jonathan Carroll

For every decision a 'man' makes, he makes it with the best of the depth of knowledge he possess at that particular instant and the quality of experiences he's passed through. It's not an excuse though for mediocrity, but an avenue to learn, rise, and conquer your inefficient self. By inference, beyond an extreme line, there might not necessarily be a qualification of a choice as wrong or right, but an avenue to grow depending on how the intricacies of such a choice and its consequences are handled. — Ufuoma Apoki

The covetous man heaps up riches, not to enjoy them, but to have them; and starves himself in the midst of plenty, and most unnaturally cheats and robs himself of that which is his own; and makes a hard shift, to be as poor and miserable with a great estate, as any man can be without it. — John Tillotson

I must only warn you of one thing. You have become a different person in the course of these years. For this is what the art of archery means: a profound and far-reaching contest of the archer with himself. Perhaps you have hardly noticed it yet, but you will feel it very strongly when you meet your friends and acquaintances again in your own country: things will no longer harmonize as before. You will see with other eyes and measure with other measures. It has happened to me too, and it happens to all who are touched by the spirit of this art. — Eugen Herrigel

It's a good time for me to pursue acting, I suppose since I'm enjoying having another medium in which to express myself. I've been getting a great response to my work. — Lenny Kravitz

Everything we know, we learned from someone else! — John Wooden

...the balance sheet of her life, an endless list of credits and debits, of accomplishments and failures, small acts of kindness and real acts of cruelty. And the tears finally come as she looks away, unable to see this thing to the very end, for she knows without looking of the terrible imbalance, how long ago the credits stopped while the debits of vanity and selfishness run on and on. — Richard C. Morais

he could not understand how people arrived at the extreme of waging war over things that could not be touched with the hand — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Hunger is a powerful incentive to introspection. — Willa Cather

If you've never been to one of my concerts. I want you to know that it is OK to scream and yell. — Donna Summer

Our human laws are but the copies, more or less imperfect, of the eternal laws, so far as we can read them. — James Anthony Froude

An old stomach reforms more whiskey drinkers than a new resolve. — Don Marquis