Yente Over The Rainbow Quotes & Sayings

All the evidence of history suggests that man is indeed a rational animal, but with a near infinite capacity for folly ... He draws blueprints for Utopia, but never quite gets it built. In the end he plugs away obstinately with the only building material really ever at hand
his own part comic, part tragic, part cussed, but part glorious nature. — Robert S. McNamara

The child came to a stop beside her mother and stared up at her face as if she had never seen it before. It was the face of the new misery she felt, but on her mother it looked old and it looked as if it might have belonged to anybody, a Negro or a European or to Powell himself. The child turned her head quickly, and past the Negroe's ambling figures she could see the column of smoke rising and widening unchecked inside the granite line of trees. She stood taut, listening, and could just catch in the distance a few wild high shrieks of joy as if the prophets were dancing in the fiery furnace, in the circle the angel had cleared for them. — Flannery O'Connor

The star of the team IS the team. 'We' supercedes 'me'. — John Wooden

On the scheme of this barbarous philosophy," Burke wrote in the Reflections, "which is the offspring of cold hearts and muddy understandings, and which is as void of solid wisdom as it is destitute of all taste and elegance, laws are to be supported only by their own terrors. . . . In the groves of their academy, at the end of every vista, you see nothing but the gallows. Nothing is left which engages the affections on the part of the commonwealth."58 — Yuval Levin

Many Christians, though keenly sensitive to the dangers of greed and discontent that come with an economy of continually increasing consumption, nevertheless feel that it is worth risking if only it can end man's physical miseries. The trouble is that it can't. In a finite world, continually increasing consumption is just not possible. — Joy Davidman

When someone really believes in what they're saying, but it's crazy, it's, like, my favorite thing on earth. — Melissa McCarthy

Success is often followed by failure. Yesterday's victory doesn't win today's battle. — Wayde Goodall

The power of love, as the basis of a State, has never been tried. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

It's like saving up that perfect comeback you read in a book or heard on TV - it always sounds good in your head, but it never quite fits in real life. — Rysa Walker

I've got an L3 bulging disk and degenerating disk. It's bulging in two places. Yeah, it's not good. — Retief Goosen

It seems to me that even the least of the human race is touched with genius when mad with love. — Evalyn Walsh McLean

Still hope leads men to venture; and no one ever yet put himself in peril without the inward conviction that he would succeed in his design. — Thucydides