Quotations

"Many people who have been near death find themselves drawn to a light of unending love that welcomes them home. Drawing near to this love and then returning to earth makes people live more lovingly. You don't have to die to benefit from this idea; all you have to do is live more lovingly here and now."

— Rami Shapiro, American rabbi, born 1951

"Be as joyous as possible and as sad as necessary."

— Rami Shapiro, American rabbi, born 1951

"They tried their best to find a place where I was isolated. But all the resources of a superpower cannot isolate the man who hears a voice of freedom, a voice I heard from the very chamber of my soul."

— Natan Sharansky, Ukrainian-Israeli politician, born 1948

"In dictatorships you need courage to fight evil; in the free world you need courage to see evil."

— Natan Sharansky, Ukrainian-Israeli politician, born 1948

"Will dissent be permitted? The answer to that question will determine whether the society is a free society or a fear society."

— Natan Sharansky, Ukrainian-Israeli politician, born 1948

"My father chose my name, and my last name was chosen by my ancestors. That’s enough, I myself choose my way."

— Ali Shariati, Iranian sociologist, born 1933

"I don't know what sex appeal is. I don't think you can have sex appeal knowingly. The people who seduce me personally are the people who seem not to know they're seductive, and not to know they have sex appeal."

— Omar Sharif, Egyptian actor, born 1932

"If Charlton Heston can have a constitutional right to carry a rifle, why can't grandma have a constitutional right to health care?"

— Al Sharpton, American political activist, born 1954

"You don't need any indictment in order to arrest someone; probable cause is sufficient to arrest civilians, so it must be enough to arrest police."

— Al Sharpton, American political activist, born 1954

"I'm not comfortable with categories, and I distrust most definitions. The word 'definition' is based on the word 'finite,' which would seem to indicate that once we've defined something, we don't need to think about it anymore."

— Artie Shaw, American clarinet player, born 1910

"Jazz was born out of the whiskey bottle, was raised on marijuana, and will expire on cocaine."

— Artie Shaw, American clarinet player, born 1910

"That's the clarinet I used to use, but it's just a piece of wood you know, with holes in it and they put these clumsy keys on it and you're supposed to try to take that and manipulate it with throat muscles and chops, and try to make something happen that never happened before. And when you do, you never forget it. It beats sex, it beats anything."

— Artie Shaw, American clarinet player, born 1910

"Do not try to live forever. You will not succeed."

— George Bernard Shaw, Irish playwright, born 1856

"Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open."

— George Bernard Shaw, Irish playwright, born 1856