The Long Seminar Quotes & Sayings

In a Jewish theological seminar there was an hours-long discussion about proofs of the existence of God. After some hours, one rabbi got up and said, "God is so great, he does not even need to exist." — Victor Frederick Weisskopf

I opened myself to you only to be skinned alive. The more vulnerable I became, the faster and more deft your knife. Knowing what was happening, still I stayed and let you carve more. That's how much I loved you. That's how much. — Rabih Alameddine

I'm disappointed in acting as a craft. I want everything to go back to Orson Welles and fake noses and changing your voice. It's become so much about personality. — Spencer Tracy

Sometimes the most modest changes can bring about enormous effects. — Malcolm Gladwell

Fucking hope. Next thing you'd know, I'd be getting soft and sentimental and teary-eyed over puppies and kittens and rainbows. — Jennifer Estep

It is important in this journey to remember that just because someone has inflicted hurt upon us, it does not give us the right to do the same. Body shaming and hurtful tactics will never get the job done. — Zendaya

If the use of animal food be, in consequence, subversive to the peace of human society, how unwarrantable is the injustice and the barbarity which is exercised toward these miserable victims. They are called into existence by human artifice that they may drag out a short and miserable existence of slavery and disease, that their bodies may be mutilated, their social feelings outraged. It were much better that a sentient being should never have existed, than that it should have existed only to endure unmitigated misery. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

A fuller vision comes from our ability to recognize the fallibility in our current and past forms of sight. — Sarah Lewis

The best philanthropy is constantly in search of the finalities-a search for a cause, an attempt to cure evils at their source. — John D. Rockefeller

I met a photographer who agreed to give me a few lessons; in exchange, I had to pose naked for him. — Sophie Calle