Yechiel Eckstein Quotes & Sayings

Who am I, and where am I going? You are the answer to this question. You are here to ask the question, and to be the answer. — Michael Beckwith

[T]o be a castaway is to be caught up in grim and exhausting opposites. — Yann Martel

No man has done everything he can who has done only his best. — Thomas Jefferson

In Japan, it's strange to openly take credit for giving to charity or even to donate publicly. — Robert Paul Weston

People just can't cope with happiness. — Paulo Coelho

And we are here as on a darkling plain
Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight,
Where ignorant armies clash by night.
— Matthew Arnold

From the first, I made my learning, what little it was, useful every way I could. — Mary McLeod Bethune

A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks that he gets as much as he deserves."1 The grateful heart, on the other hand, sees each day as a gift. — Max Lucado

About last night, I told Drew to keep his hands off you."
"Why would you do that?"
"Because everyone talks shit about you because of it. But its not my business, so I'm sorry."
"And he agreed?"
"Not without persuasion."
"What kind of methods do you have that would work on drew?"
"I lied. I told him you were mine."
( ... )
"Just so you know, you didn't lie. — Katja Millay

If there is any kind of animal which is female and has no male separate from it, it is possible that this may generate a young one from itself. No instance of this worthy of any credit has been observed up to the present at any rate, but one case in the class of fishes makes us hesitate. No male of the so-called erythrinus has ever yet been seen, but females, and specimens full of roe, have been seen. Of this, however, we have as yet no proof worthy of credit. — Aristotle.

And understood that rage could be quiet. Could be soft. Rage didn't have to be a killer. — Benjamin Alire Saenz

He believed that great harvests came from arid sources, pleasure from restraint," she noted. "He knew the equations that most people didn't know: Things led to their opposites. — Walter Isaacson

[Canada's ruling circles seek] to ally themselves more closely with American imperialism without giving up the economic advantages of membership in the British Empire. — Tim Buck