Sarah Quotes

Be grateful for the home you have, knowing that at this moment, all you have is all you need.

Rugged strength and radiant beauty-- These were one in Nature's plan; Humble toil and heavenward duty-- These will form the perfect man.

The parallels between making love and giving birth are clear, not only in terms of passion and love, but also because we need essentially the same conditions for both experiences: privacy and safety.

To not have any hope is where things start to get really bleak. Things are possible. The impossible can be possible.

Balls are to men what purses are to women.

Life is not made up of minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, or years, but of moments. You must experience each one before you can appreciate it.

Positive things happen to positive people.

I have a better internal and intuitive understanding of folklore and myth than science and technology, so in that way fantasy is easier.

After all, computers crash, people die, relationships fall apart. The best we can do is breath and reboot.

People are always introducing me as Sarah Silverman, Jewish comedienne. I hate that! I wish people would see me for who I really am — I'm white!

Permanent success cannot be achieved except by incessant intellectual labour, always inspired by the ideal.

Hands learn more than minds do, hands learn how to hold other hands.

I don't smoke, don't drink much, and go to the gym five times a week. I live a healthy lifestyle and feel great. I can run a marathon, you know.

We say keep your change, we'll keep our God, our guns, our constitution.

Women's bodies have their own wisdom, and a system of birth refined over 100,000 generations is not so easily overpowered.

To create something beautiful about despair or out of a feeling of despair is for me the most hopeful life affirming thing a person can do

There is no impossibility to him who stands prepared to conquer every hazard. The fearful are the failing.

Grace is available for each of us every day - our spiritual daily bread - but we've got to remember to ask for it with a grateful heart and not worry about whether there will be enough for tomorrow.

I believe that the essence of photography is black and white. Color is but a deviance.

There is small danger of being starved in our land of plenty; but the danger of being stuffed is imminent.

How many fingers am I holding up?" he inquired. Lucille regarded him blearily and said, "Avocado.

[When asked at age 79 why her Paris apartment was located up many flights of stairs at the top of the building:] It's the only way I can still make the hearts of men beat faster.

Fingers interlocked like a beautiful accordion of flesh or a zipper of prayer

Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.

Being a nerd, which is to say going too far and caring too much about a subject, is the best way to make friends I know.

Every time we remember to say "thank you", we experience nothing less than heaven on earth.

When we went to Belfast we saw some beautiful countryside and coastlines.

You'll never know what you're capable of if you don't try.

Earth's saddest day and gladdest day were just three days apart!

Jews, black people - any people who are hated or who have suffered, either as individuals or as a people - use humour. It is a survival skill.

In the end, though, maybe it's not how you reach a place that matters. Just that you get there at all.

America's finest - our men and women in uniform, are a force for good throughout the world, and that is nothing to apologize for.

I got to thinking about relationships and partial lobotomies. Two seemingly different ideas that might just be perfect together - like chocolate and peanut butter.

... rights are liable to be perverted to wrongs when we are incapable of rightly exercising them.

My childhood is very vivid to me, and I don't feel very different now from the way I felt then. It would appear I am the very same person, only with wrinkles.

People go to casinos for the same reason they go on blind dates - hoping to hit the jackpot. But mostly, you just wind up broke or alone in a bar.

Those who live passionately teach us how to love. Those who love passionately teach us how to live.

Anything can happen to anyone at any time and you shouldn't just live through the days, or you lose them. You should do what you can to enjoy every moment.

I don't judge others. I say if you feel good with what you're doing, let your freak flag fly.

Accepting all the good and bad about someone. It's a great thing to aspire to. The hard part is actually doing it.

God wastes nothing, so use what He has given you as fuel for your soul's journey.

Mayonnaise is a lot like men, it can make everything much better, adding flavor and ease to your life. Or, it can just be sticky and gross and make you nauseous"- "Keeping the Moon

As we become curators of our own contentment on the Simple Abundance path... we learn to savor the small with a grateful heart.

The modern mocha is a bittersweet concoction of imperialism, genocide, invention, and consumerism served with whipped cream on top

We cannot birth our babies through sheer force of will. We need to learn the more subtle, the equally powerful, path of surrender.

Everything, in the end, comes down to timing. One second, one minute, one hour could make all the difference.

Beside the brook and on the umbered meadow, Where yellow fern-tufts fleck the faded ground, With folded lids beneath their palmy shadow The gentian nods in dewy slumbers bound.

He who is incapable of feeling strong passions, of being shaken by anger, of living in every sense of the word, will never be a good actor.

These global warming studies [are] a bunch of snake oil science.

Only love can save me and love has destroyed me.