"Half of me knows too much to be carefree. But the other half knows enough to be grateful."

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Susan Estrich

#Grateful Quotes #Too Much Quotes #Half Quotes

“The Jews started it all-and by 'it' I mean so many of the things we care about, the underlying values that make all of us, Jew and Gentile, believer and aethiest, tick. Without the Jews, we would see the world through different eyes, hear with different ears, even feel with different feelings ... we would think with a different mind, interpret all our experience differently, draw different conclusions from the things that befall us. And we would set a different course for our lives.”

Source : "The Gifts of the Jews : How a Tribe of Desert Nomads Changed the Way Everyone Thinks and Feels". Book by Thomas Cahill, 1998.
“It's a very good thing for students also to be exposed to people who aren't film students or film scholars but who work in the world of film.”
“My scars are numerous, my flesh is powerless, my enemy is dangerous, but my God is glorious and His grace is totally sufficient.”

Source : Matt Papa (2014). “Look and Live: Behold the Soul-Thrilling, Sin-Destroying Glory of Christ”, p.15, Baker Books
“Life will drag us kicking and screaming to our destiny if we try to escape it.”
“There are few genuine conservatives within the U.S. political system, and it is a sign of the intellectual corruption of the age that the honorable term 'conservatism' can be appropriated to disguise the advocacy of a powerful, lawless, aggressive and violent state, a welfare state for the rich dedicated to a lunatic form of Keynesian economic intervention that enhances state and private power while mortgaging the country's future.”
“The joy of a party is the newness of people to each other, renewed strikingness of humanity. They love each other, to distraction. Really to distraction. Before they fall into conversation and separate. ... The strangeness, and the hopes aroused by strangeness, are illusions. Mirages arising wherever people gather expectantly together.”

Source : Dorothy Miller Richardson (1967). “Pilgrimage”
“To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.”

Source : Introductory speech at a session of the French Academy, December 24, 1896.
“I was hooked on writing. I mean, where else can you get paid for sticking your nose into somebody else's business?”

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