Tag: Quotables

Illustrative things said by people other than me. Think of them as pieces of congealed wonder and wisdom.

Don’t let the plot get in the way of the story.”
— Anon.

The road to a friend’s house is never long.”
— Dave Chavoya

Hatch ’em, match ’em, dispatch ’em.”
— My friend, the Rev. JT, deconstructing pastors’ duty toward their flock

My point, once again, is not that those ancient people told literal stories and we are now smart enough to take them symbolically, but that they told them symbolically and we are now dumb enough to take them literally.”
— John Dominic Crossan

There is no such thing as ‘too much garlic.'”
— Your author, in a culinarily inspired moment

Well, I ain’t often right, but I’ve never been wrong —
It seldom turns out the way it does in the song.
Once in a while, you get shown the light
In the strangest of places, if you look at it right…”
— Robert Hunter, a”h

There was a time when every brief saying one heard was regarded as a ‘Torah’ (teaching, guidance), and everything one saw was perceived as an instruction in his Avoda (worship, service) and conduct.”
–Daily Hayom Yom newsletter

If truth is stranger than fiction, it is because it has a better and more creative author.”
— Jeff Forsythe

The greatest mystery is not that we have been flung at random between the profusion of matter and of the stars, but that within this prison we can draw from ourselves images powerful enough to deny our nothingness.”
— Andre Malraux

The harder it became, the more I wanted to do it.”
— Female round-the-world sailor, from the film MAIDEN

If church worked, you’d only need to go once.”
— Pastor Rich Gantenbein, a”h

The only difference between a madman and myself is that I am not mad.”
— Salvador Dali