Shul Quotes & Sayings

I knew all the time that it was all nonsense, but I couldn't understand in the least what it meant, or who was pulling the wires of rumour, or their purpose in so pulling. I began to wonder whether the pressure and anxiety and suspense of a terrible war had unhinged the public mind, so that it was ready to believe any fable, to debate the reasons for happenings which had never happened. — Arthur Machen

All I can do is put out the good stuff, and people will make the decision on whether they like it. My fans are very intelligent people. They're not stupid. They know what's good. — Action Bronson

Socialists and Progressives confuse compassion and compulsion. — A.E. Samaan

Rule number one of monster hunting," Cody said. "There are no coincidences."
"No, that's rule number two," Robin said. "Rule number one is, 'Kill it before it eats you. — J.S. Hope

I consider myself a Jewish writer - even if my characters frequently are not Jewish - in the same way, I guess, that I consider myself a Jewish man, even though I don't often attend shul. — Darin Strauss

Church reminded me very much of going to shul. It was a bunch of men wearing long robes, speaking in a language I didn't understand. — Amy-Jill Levine

Emptiness is the track on which the centered person moves," said a Tibetan sage six hundred years ago, and the book where I found this edict followed it with an explanation of the word "track" in Tibetan: shul, "a mark that remains after that which made it has passed by - a footprint for example. In other contexts, shul is used to describe the scarred hollow in the ground where a house once stood, the channel worn through rock where a river runs in flood, the indentation in the grass where an animal slept last night. — Rebecca Solnit

We might be able to see God's body in the Kabbalah's ten Sefirot, but it was 1986, barely forty years since our grandparents' generation sat desperate and fated in their East European neighborhoods. Never again, our teachers incanted to us Monday after Monday, Wednesday after Wednesday. But when I picture myself in those rooms in the basement of our shul, even now I can only hear the incantation's reciprocal: It will happen again. Beware. Be always aware. — Daniel Torday

When I am at home, I never go near the synagogue unless, say, there is a bar or bat mitzvah involving the children of friends. But when I am traveling, in a country where Jewish life is scarce or endangered, I often make a visit to the shul. — Christopher Hitchens

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I enjoyed coming home to Crown Heights. There was a certain order to life there. You know, Shabbos, spending time with your family, eating and being in 'shul.' Prayers at nighttime, prayers in the morning. Everyone knows everybody; you walk your kids everywhere. — Matisyahu

Why didn't you guess this would happen?" Elayne demanded.
He looked at her, expressionless. One side of his mouth twitched up, then he pulled his hat down, shading his eyepatch.
"Light," Elayne said. "You knew. You spent this whole week planning with us, and you knew the entire time you'd throw it out with the dishwater. — Robert Jordan

Ownership is a sine qua non of sustainable development. — James Wolfensohn

The lake at Neverland is right in the very front, and you just want to dive in. — Rick Dees

Though this universe I own,
I possess not a thing,
for I cannot know the unknown
if to the known I cling. — Robert Fisher

I've had a bris, was Bar Mitzvahed and, on occasion, have referred to a temple as a shul. I've never denied it, nor have I disguised it. I am, indeed, a Jew. — Alan Zweibel

The good news about computers is that they do what you tell them to do. The bad news is that they do what you tell them to do. — Ted Nelson

Wicca's temples are flowered-splashed meadows, forest, beaches, and deserts. — Scott Cunningham

A Superwoman isn't a woman who can do anything, but a woman who avoids doing too much. — Shirley Conran