Tzedakah Torah Quotes & Sayings

Ever since you're little you hear this: 'The pilgrims left England to escape religious persecution and sneak religious freedom into the new world.' But even when you're little you're like, 'Umm.. Bullsh*t?' — Greg Proops

If I knew that it was possible to save all the children of Germany by transporting them to England, and only half by transferring them to the Land of Israel, I would choose the latter, for before us lies not only the numbers of these children but the historical reckoning of the people of Israel. — David Ben-Gurion

In meditation you can erase the conditioning. But still, you have to fight the description of the world that everyone else is carrying around. — Frederick Lenz

He is careful to deny responsibility for September, but he does not, you notice, condemn the killings. He also refrains from killing words, sparing Roland and Buzot, as if they were beneath his notice. August 10 was illegal, he says; so too was the taking of the Bastille. What account can we take of that, in revolution? It is the nature of revolutions to break laws. We are not justices of the peace; we are legislators to a new world. — Hilary Mantel

Was this really the supposed better deal from surrendering our military hospitals in favour of gaining better clinical experience from the NHS? — Stuart Tootal

Manners make often fortunes. — John Ray

He was silent a moment. Then he said, "We need you. That's what's important. The rest is titles." Gently, he took my hand in his own. It wasn't a romantic gesture; it was deeper than that. We — Jessica Cluess

She may hide it, but Clinton is a policy nerd. Ask about microfinance, and she'll talk your ear off. Mention early childhood interventions, and she will gush about obscure details of a home visitation experiment in Elmira, N.Y., that dramatically improved child outcomes. — Nicholas Kristof

Higher degree of equations in maths and life have no real solutions. — Sipendr

I'm really excited about the revolution that is young people actually playing young people on Broadway. — Jennifer Damiano

The leader releases energy, unites energies, and all with the object not only of carrying out a purpose, but of creating further and larger purposes. And I do not mean here by larger purposes mergers or more branches; I speak of larger in the qualitative rather than the quantitative sense. I mean purposes which will include more of those fundamental values for which most of us agree we are really living. — Mary Parker Follett

The only certainty is uncertainty, except your own death, that's damn certain. — Rick Yancey

Others may be able to accept standards from another, but an artist is a person who decides. — William Stafford

I loved Western Swing and Hank Williams' music, and I now know that it's a 6th tuning that gives you all of those classic licks. — John Fogerty

Scientists must use the simplest means of arriving at their results and exclude everything not perceived by the senses. — Ernst Mach