"The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity."

--

Source : Telegram to President John F. Kennedy, June 16, 1963.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

#Spiritual Quotes #Audacity Quotes #Moral Quotes

“I am a businessman at the end of the day. I have grown up with Excel sheets. I start out writing my novel with spreadsheets and the milestones in each chapter highlighted.”
“So what were Europeans telling their leaders? The general message was perfectly summed up by the cartoonist Chappatte, who drew a group of protesters holding up a placard shouting "Unhappy" -- and one of their number shouting through a megaphone into the ballot box. There are 28 member states and 28 varieties of Unhappy.”

Source : "Europe: the continent for every type of unhappy". www.theguardian.com. May 26, 2014.
“The only way to do something in depth is to work hard.”
“What I'm getting at is, you know, if we really want to get serious about helping all the people living in the street and getting people jobs, we could just hire half the people in the country to spy on the other half.”
“I think a lot of programs, policies have been put in place since 9/11, have prevented a 9/11-style attack. On the other hand, I think the threat has become greater, not lesser.”

Source : "State of the Union with Candy Crowley", www.cnn.com. December 8, 2013.
“we, in that instant, lost, breathless to be witnesses, as if we stood ourselves refreshed among the shining fauna of that fire.”
“A dog will flatter you but you have to flatter the cat.”
“Nothing makes an actor feel freer and more inventive and more creative than being trusted.”

Source : "Kevin Kline Talks DARLING COMPANION, Charlie Kaufman’s FRANK OR FRANCIS, and His Oscar Short with Mike Myers". Press conference, collider.com. April 19, 2012.

You may also like:

Baal Shem Tov
Rabbi
Cornel West
Philosopher
Leo Baeck
Rabbi
Maimonides
Philosopher
Martin Buber
Philosopher
Paul Tillich
Philosopher
Shlomo Carlebach
Rabbi
Simon Schama
Art Historian
Zalman Schachter-Shalomi