Agayof Mezuzah Quotes & Sayings

Bobbie Ann Mason's genius only grows stronger and wiser and funnier with every new book, and Zigzagging Down a Wild Trail is my absolute favorite so far. What an ear she has for the telling phrase, what an eye for the heartbreaking detail. These new stories are stunning. — Josephine Humphreys

What isn't remembered never happened.

Memory is merely a record...you just need to rewrite that record. — Yoshitoshi ABe

Syria is ready to cooperate and coordinate all efforts, whether regional or international, to combat terrorism — Walid Muallem

By the rules of evidence in this trial the verdict is foreordained. If the testimony ... is admitted as competent, the conspiracy is proved. Because it would not be admitted except under the assumption that a conspiracy existed ... Here ... a defendant can be found guilty of being brought to court as a defendant. — E.L. Doctorow

I would prefer to be forgotten, then rediscovered in a different age. — Bill Viola

After September 11, I wondered rhetorically midway through a column what we in the West are prepared to die for, and got a convoluted e-mail back from a French professor explaining that the fact that Europeans weren't prepared to die for anything was the best evidence of their superiority: they were building a post-historical utopia - a Europe it would not be necessary to die for. But sometimes you die anyway. — Mark Steyn

A little town is like a lantern. Nothing's hid from sight. — Rachel Field

What an unreliable thing is time
when I want it to fly, the hours stick to me like glue. And what a changeable thing, too. Time is the twine to tie our lives into parcels of years and months. Or a rubber band stretched to suit our fancy. Time can be the pretty ribbon in a little girl's hair. Or the lines in your face, stealing your youthful colour and your hair ... But in the end, time is a noose around the neck, strangling slowly. — Rohinton Mistry

Yet the paradox of science is that every answer breeds at least two new questions. More tools, more answers, ever more questions. — Kevin Kelly

It is often hazardous to marry an heiress, as she is not unfrequently the last of a diseased family. — Erasmus Darwin

He that is rich need not live sparingly,
and he that can live sparingly need not be rich. — Benjamin Franklin

I can understand the fact you don't want the ball slipping out of a pitcher's hand because someone can get hurt. — Joe Torre

To come down to my own experience, my companion and I, for I sometimes have a companion, take pleasure in fancying ourselves knights of a new, or rather an old, order - not Equestrians or Chevaliers, not Ritters or Riders, but Walkers, a still more ancient and honorable class, I trust. The Chivalric and heroic spirit which once belonged to the Rider seems now to reside in, or perchance to have subsided into, the Walker - not the Knight, but Walker, Errant. He is a sort of fourth estate, outside of Church and State and People. — Henry David Thoreau

Flippancy may be a lance tilted in the face of fear. — Lucy Freeman