The Promise Chaim Potok Quotes & Sayings

Your lips are my persuasion, your love will be my cure. — Billy Squier

If God created shadows it was to better emphasise the light. — Pope John XXIII

Drumming completely eclipsed my life from age 13, when I started drum lessons. Everything disappeared. I'd done well in school up until that time. I was fairly adjusted socially up until that time. And I became completely monomania, obsessed all through my teens. Nothing else existed anymore. — Neil Peart

The two questions that anyone ever asks me are: 'Are house prices going to go down?' and 'Is it a good time to fix my mortgage rate?' — Evan Davis

There is no way that you can ever really repeat something. I have this great belief that the magic of the moment can never be recaptured. — Brian May

The argument about ethics and morality will have to go on in a post-religious society, just as it had to go on when religion was regnant and was often ordering good people to agree to evil things such as torture, slavery, or cruelty to children. — Christopher Hitchens

Keefe?" she whispered. He smirked. "Did you miss me? — Shannon Messenger

Let them say what they want. I will not demand that the Jewish Agency allocate a sum of 300,000 or 100,000 pounds sterling to help European Jewry. And I think that whoever demands such things is performing an anti-Zionist act. — Yitzhak Gruenbaum

Many earnest young writers with a flow of adjectives and a passion for detail have attempted to describe the quiet of a great city at night, when a few million people within it are sleeping, or ought to be. They work in the clang of a distant owl car, and the roar of an occasional "L" train, and the hollow echo of the footsteps of the late passer-by. They go elaborately into description, and are strong on the brooding hush, but the thing has never been done satisfactorily. — Edna Ferber

Feel whatever arises fully, and then let go of any identification with what you're feeling. You are at choice. You don't have to go through another moment of suffering. Break free from the societal constructs that say, 'Life is meant to be a challenge.' This is not true. You have the capacity to become the observer of your emotional reactions and check in with your heart each time, to respond from love and compassion. This is the key to becoming liberated from the bonds of emotional suffering. — Dashama Konah Gordon

It's irrational and childish for me to be upset, and I don't care. — Jim Butcher

Somehow, that wasn't any more comforting than knowing Dr. C would kill King if I didn't survive the night. — Ben Reeder

I'm a third generation Californian, and there's a lot of talented, good-looking guys in California, so I'm just happy to be working and lucky to be working. — Scott Eastwood

All is mystery; but he is a slave who will not struggle to penetrate the dark veil. — Benjamin Disraeli