Maimonides Quotes

If the whole earth is infinitely small in comparison with the sphere of the stars, what is man compared with all these created beings!

Maimonides

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: philosopher
  • Nationality: spanish
  • Birth: March 30, 1135 - December 12, 1204

Topics

StarsManSmallEarthComparison

A willing heart adds feather to the heel.

Joanna Baillie

HeartWillingFeatherHeelAdds

In my judgment, the American people are too brave, too charitable, too generous, too magnanimous, to believe in the infamous dogma of an eternal hell.

Robert Green Ingersoll

PeopleBraveBelieveHellAmerican

A writer loses possession of her work as soon as it's reaches its audience. Each reader brings his own experience and prejudice and imagination to the work. Television adaptation just goes one step further, and the novelist has to learn to let go.

Ann Cleeves

WorkExperienceImaginationStepGo

Hustle is simple - it's doing the work. A lot of people like to talk about it, a lot of people have ideas, but it's difficult to actually do the work.

Troy Carter

WorkSimplePeopleIdeasHustle

Before being elected to Congress, I oversaw the Cook County Hospital System as a Cook County Commissioner for 10 years.

Mike Quigley

CongressHospitalYearsSystemCook

If laws acting upon private interests can not always be avoided, they should be confined within the narrowest limits, and left wherever possible to the legislatures of the States.

Martin Van Buren

LimitsActingPossibleAlwaysWithin

We really didn't have any literature telling us it was a good thing to be a woman artist. When I was trained, there were no precedents, and that was something to get really angry about.

Miriam Schapiro

GoodWomanAngryLiteratureArtist

I don't think I have advice for female directors as opposed to male directors. I think all first-time directors should try and be as prepared as they possibly can, because it's hard!

Liz Tuccillo

ThinkAdviceTryHardBecause

While I'm critical to the Bush presidency, it's been enormously beneficial for Salon because we're seen as kind of an aggressive watchdog on the Bush White House. Particularly since Florida, our readership hit a whole new level, and we held onto those readers.

David Talbot

HouseWhiteNewKindFloridaLevel

When you can type a few words into a search engine and land on your topic - or when you can scan a Shakespeare play for specific words or symbols - what opportunities might you miss to expand your thinking in unexpected ways?

Christina Baker Kline

WordsOpportunitiesThinkingSearch

I try to get massages on Saturday. That's my only day off.

Brooke Elliott

DaySaturdayTryGetOffOnly

The Oceanic White Tip is considered one of the most dangerous sharks in the sea along with the Great White and Tiger. It is responsible for some of the most famous episodes of man-eating in history, such as when the U.S.S. Indianapolis sank in 1945.

Brian Skerry

SeaHistoryGreatFamousTiger

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