We change, but always at a cost: to win this you lose that.
By vulgarity I mean that vice of civilization which makes man ashamed of himself and his next of kin, and pretend to be somebody else.
You cannot be anything if you want to be everything.
Whatever the faults of the rabbis, consistency was not one of them.
Self-complacency is the companion of ignorance.
In short, the Gaon was a one-sided, severe ascetic, and would never have deserved the title of a good father, a good husband, an amiable man. . . [T]here is no occasion at all for pitying Mrs. Gaon. . . . Saints are happy in their suffering, and noble souls find their happiness in sacrificing themselves for these sufferers.
Judaism is absolutely incompatible with the abandonment of the Torah.
It took time for the church to come to terms with the ignominy of the cross. Church fathers forbade its depiction in art until the reign of the Roman emperor Constantine. . . . Now, though, the symbol is everywhere: artists beat gold into the shape of the Roman execution device, baseball players cross themselves before batting, and cancy confectioners even make chocolate crosses for the faithful to eat during Holy Week. Strange as it may seem, Christianity has become a religion of the cross--the gallows, the electric chair, the gas chamber, in modern terms.
No tree becomes rooted and sturdy unless many a wind assails it. For by its very tossing it tightens its grip and plants its roots more securely; the fragile trees are those that have grown in a sunny valley.
I'm just a music fan. I like pretty much all types of music, and I feel like I can get something out of everything. It just makes work a lot more fun whenever you're working on different things all the times and usually once I work with a band I usually will want to work with them again, just because we become good friends.
She was the music heard faintly on the edge of sound.