It is a grave matter to enter a war, without adequate military preparation; it may prove fatal to come into peace, without moral and religious preparation.

From the long range point of view, I do not know of anything we can do more important than to make some contribution to the preservation of religion as a vital force in America.

I hope to devote all of my spare time, which ordinarily would go to research, my summers, and every ounce of strength I can muster to further the project.

In taking action we must remember that the things which are happening to the Jews today are but a part of the general disintegration anticipated by philosophers and historians of different schools for almost half a century.

I feel very strongly that it is vital for us to constantly keep in mind the fact that the Jewish problem is but a phase of the world problem.

For as Jews, the problem happens to be more urgent and vital than for others; because the destruction of religion on America will involve the destruction also of the religious training of freedom; and with that our civil liberties.

A rabbi should not despair if people do not do as much as they should. Every parent has that with children. God is merciful.

It is a grave matter to enter a war, without adequate military preparation; it may prove fatal to come into peace, without moral and religious preparation.

The road to success, and by that I mean... the possibility of giving the best one has to the cause that one loves most, is not easy.

It therefore become essential for the future of Judaism itself that its advancement should be correlated with a similar effort to advance the cause of religion generally.

We realize that Judaism as a faith can survive only in an atmosphere of general faith.

One half of my life has put the other half in the grave.

There is neither rank nor station nor prerogative in the republic of the grave.

Age makes all things greater after their death; a name comes to the tongue easier from the grave.

Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.

Many people are in a rut and a rut is nothing but a grave - with both ends kicked out.

I am a soul. I know well that what I shall render up to the grave is not myself. That which is myself will go elsewhere. Earth, thou art not my abyss!

An angel's arm can't snatch me from the grave; legions of angels can't confine me there.

The danger of that - and there's a grave danger that I, myself, have to be very aware of - is that you become so involved and intrigued in the language that sometimes you lose track that that is only a means to an aesthetic experience that the listener has to get.

But I think that the spirit of protectionism would be the grave of European cinema. You cannot protect something by building a fence around it and thinking that this will help it survive.

A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave.

Two aged men, that had been foes for life, Met by a grave, and wept - and in those tears They washed away the memory of their strife; Then wept again the loss of all those years.

All over the world the wildlife that I write about is in grave danger. It is being exterminated by what we call the progress of civilization.

Only on the edge of the grave can man conclude anything.

If Roosevelt were alive today, he'd turn over in his grave.

I'll only stop singing when I'm in my grave.

Bad leadership during the past years has cast on our Party the shadow of great and grave burdens.

Death borders upon our birth, and our cradle stands in the grave.

Teach me to live, that I may dread The grave as little as my bed.

We pacifists have not ceased to point to the grave danger of armaments and to insist on their curtailment.

I should like these few words to be read over the grave when my body is placed in the earth; for though it is possible I may be present and conscious of what is going on, I shall not be able to communicate.

Frankly, despite my horror of the press, I'd love to rise from the grave every ten years or so and go buy a few newspapers.

We knew we were talking about spies. I knew he knew I knew. I was digging my own grave.

A grave blockhead should always go about with a lively one - they show one another off to the best advantage.

It is immoral from almost any point of view to refuse to defend yourself and others from very grave and terrible threats, even as there are limits to the means that can be used in such defense.

To try to correct imbalances with trade restrictions is a grave error.

I would rather drudge out my life on a cotton plantation, till the grave opened to give me rest, than to live with an unprincipled master and a jealous mistress.

The credit which the apparent conformity with recognized scientific standards can gain for seemingly simple but false theories may, as the present instance shows, have grave consequences.

They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more.

Having been an actor and a writer for so long - 20 years or so - I felt that it would be daft to go to one's grave without having directed. It's a natural extension of writing and acting, and so I knew it would happen one day.

Impeachment is not a remedy for private wrongs; it's a method of removing someone whose continued presence in office would cause grave danger to the nation.

Don't go to the grave with life unused.

Put no inscription over the grave, except the date of my birth and my death; and, wherever I am buried, let the funeral be perfectly private, with as few persons attending, and as little show and expense as possible.

If Casey Stengel were alive today, he'd be spinning in his grave.

The fact that a Republican is in the late Senator Kennedy's old seat probably must have him rolling in his grave, probably spilling his drink.

We receive reports now on a daily basis from our own people on the ground in Darfur on widespread atrocities and grave violations of human rights against the civilian population.

Bourgeois class domination is undoubtedly an historical necessity, but, so too, the rising of the working class against it. Capital is an historical necessity, but, so too, its grave digger, the socialist proletariat.

We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.

With respect to the first of these obstacles, it has often been made a matter of grave complaint against Political Economists, that they confine their attention to Wealth, and disregard all consideration of Happiness or Virtue.