Yochanan Quotes & Sayings

Few things are as essential as education. — Walter Annenberg

The U.S. is not constructing a palatial embassy, by far the largest in the world and virtually a separate city within Baghdad, and pouring money into military bases, with the intention of leaving Iraq to Iraqis. — Noam Chomsky

Bank account statement just look like I'm ready for early retirement — Drake

How do you know when an apology is true - when it means something, or can change something, or will last outside the moment? — Beth Kephart

This did not prevent him from going to print shop every morning and working as conscientiously as ever, following the advice of Yochanan ben Zakkai: 'If you are planting an olive tree when you learn that the Messiah has come, finish planting the olive tree and then go to greet the messiah. — Marek Halter

Consent to petting isn't consent to penetration. — Kate McGuinness

In my tradition, God revealed Himself in words and lives in stories and, no, you cannot touch or even see Him. The Word, in Judaism, was never made flesh. The closest God came to embodiment was in the Temple in Jerusalem ... But the Temple was destroyed. In Judaism, the flesh became words. Words were the traditional refuge of the Jewish people - Yochanan ben Zakkai led a yeshiva, my father became a professor. And little boys, in the Middle Ages, ate cakes with verses inscribed on them, an image I find deeply moving and, somehow, deeply depressing. This might help explain a certain melancholy quality books in general, for all their bright allure, have always had for me. As many times as I went down to my parents' library for comfort, I would find myself standing in front of the books and could almost feel them turning back into trees, failing me somehow. — Jonathan Rosen

Don't get set into one form, adapt it and build your own, and let it grow, be like water. — Bruce Lee

Five weeks in the hospital fled as if down a sinkhole into the middle of the earth ... Can waiting by definition slow, flash by? ... Time becomes even more elastic than usual
minutes can stretch for ages and days suddenly snap together. [p. 97] — Diane Ackerman

Keep driving," I said.
"Oh, really? I usually pull over and drape myself seductively over the hood of my car when I'm getting tailed by creepy stalkers," She said a little hysterically. — Rae Mariz

I try not to take people who haven't really thought out what they're doing too seriously. I try not to let them get in the way of what I feel I need to do. — Gil Scott-Heron

PHILOSOPHY OF LIFE
I have so much to do today.
I can't possibly get it all done,
so I'm not going to start. — Chocolate Waters

My mom is like this hard-core, liberal feminist. She's a professor in Boston, and she's been teaching women's studies for 30 years and international politics. — Eliza Dushku

What he took he will give, when he gets what he gave. — John Verdon