Alona Tal famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I do not think I could myself, be brought to support a man for office, whom I knew to be an open enemy of, and scoffer at, religion. Leaving the higher matter of eternal consequences, between him and his Maker, I still do not think any man has the right thus to insult the feelings, and injure the morals, of the community in which he may live.
I have a very serious censorship office inside my head; it censors things that I could tell you that you would never forget, and I don't want to be the person to stick that in your brain.
It makes me feel good that I can now sit there and go, I've worked with Jack Nicholson, Al Pacino, all the great actors that I've worked with... Sir Ben Kingsley.
A divided heart loses both worlds.
As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow.
Keeping up appearances is the most expensive thing in the world.
I, a stranger and afraid, in a world I never made.
I am not a pessimist but a pejorist (as George Eliot said she was not an optimist but a meliorist); and that philosophy is founded on my observation of the world, not on anything so trivial and irrelevant as personal history.
I thought religion would make me live with my head in the clouds, but as often as not, it grounds me in this world.
Very few people changed the world by sitting on their couch.

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