Tzedek Tirdof Quotes & Sayings

Syntheses between East and West based simply on a similarity of "spiritualities" or "mystical experiences" could not be achieved even then - how much less so today! So we must judge any program as inadequate that tries simply to let India and Europe encounter each other at the halfway-station of Byzantine hesychasm, in the practice of the Jesus prayer and of certain bodily positions and breathing exercises - all ways in which Eastern Christianity reorientalized itself after the period of the great synthesis. — Hans Urs Von Balthasar

Good families are generally worse than any others. — Anthony Hope

I've been fascinated over the years by the way refrains work. Think, say, of the refrains in Yeats' ballads. Ideally, each time the refrain comes back in a poem, it is both the same and different. It works by counterpoint and reiteration. It accrues meaning. — Edward Hirsch

When you put your faith in big government, you end up an apologist for mass murder. — Karl Hess

Life is short and art is long. — Seneca The Younger

Yes, everybody's angry when it comes to commuting, and in a society in which racism is no longer acceptable, prejudice based on transport has rushed in to fill the void. — BikeSnobNYC

There are no second acts in American lives. — F Scott Fitzgerald

What's wrong with lust? You fancy your neighbor's husband so what are you supposed to do? Poke your eyes out so that you can't see him anymore? Acting on it is maybe a sin ... but my God, just lusting after someone? Is that so bad? — Emma Goldman

The friends of the unfortunate live a long way off. — Seneca The Younger