Szold Henrietta Quotes & Sayings

My misfortune is my ability to see both sides even of the fundamental religious question. — Henrietta Szold

That's it. It's all going to end.
The realization wasn't crushing. It was gentle, like a final tendril of smoke from a dying candle. — Brandon Sanderson

Women were freed from positive duties when they could not perform them, but not when they could. — Henrietta Szold

My playground is full of moonshine, mason jars, beer bottles, and bonfires. — Big Smo

Dare to dream ... and when you dream, dream big. — Henrietta Szold

Originality is only variation. — Holbrook Jackson

The first time I walked into the Olympic athlete village seeing the Visa ATM machine with my picture on it and the Chinese characters saying 'Destiny.' For some reason, it just boosted my confidence and it was before I had even worked out or had my first training or competed. — Nastia Liukin

To the rest of us the supreme vindication of the scholar's view lies in their invincible allegiance to the Jewish heritage - a steadfastness that has been matched only by that of their rescuers. — Henrietta Szold

The more I see of Italy and her treasures, the more I see paganism in Christianity ... — Henrietta Szold

In the life of the spirit there is no ending that is not a beginning. — Henrietta Szold

We had not spoken about the incident in my room several nights before and, in the drowsy silence of the car, I felt the need to make things plain.
"You know, Francis," I said.
"What?"
It seemed the best thing was just to come right out and say it. "You know," I said, "I'm really not attracted to you. I mean, not that - "
"Isn't that interesting," he said coolly. "I'm really not attracted to you, either."
"But - "
"You were there."
We drove the rest of the way to school in a not very comfortable silence. — Donna Tartt

I love life, but not everything in it. I love people, but not all of them. I love myself, but not everything about me. — Phillip C. McGraw

I would exchange everything for one child of my own. — Henrietta Szold

You're going to say that you're a tractor specialist," I said to Slyunkov, he'd been a director of a tractor factory, "and that you didn't understand what radiation could do, but I'm a physicist, I know what the consequences are." But from his point of view, what was this? Some professor, a bunch of physicists, were going to tell the Central Committee what to do? No, they weren't a gang of criminals. It was more like a conspiracy of ignorance and obedience. — Svetlana Alexievich

Our information lives will be better served when we are free to get to our information from wherever we are, with any device available. — Donald Norman

The Jewish heart has always starved unless it was fed through the Jewish intellect. — Henrietta Szold