Ahad Quotes & Sayings

We are all but borrowed energy — Perry Covington

Trust your intuition, even when no one else sees your point of view. — Beverley Golden

Historical truth is that, and that alone, which reveals the forces that go to mould the social life of mankind. — Ahad Ha'am

[But if things continue the way they are] ... the society that I envision, if my dream is not just a false notion, this society will have to begin to create itself in the midst of fuss, noisiness and panic, and will have to face the prospects of both internal and external war ... — Ahad Ha'am

I cheated when I gifted Tier. And this makes me smile, because it was so easy and simple. And it was something my father never understood.
Love is earned, not mandated.
So I loved Tier back.
Fiercely. — J.A. Huss

Charles de Foucauld, the found of the Little Brothers of Jesus, wrote a single sentence that's ahad a profound impact on my life. He said, "The one thing we owe absolutely to God is never to be afraid of anything." Never to be afraid of anything, even death, which, after all, is but that final breakthrough into the open, waiting, outstretched arms of Abba. — Brennan Manning

If this be the Messiah, then I do not wish to see his coming — Ahad Ha'am

We can't ignore the fact that ahead of us is a great war and this war is going to need significant preparation. — Ahad Ha'am

The less their ability, the more their conceit. — Ahad Ha'am

The way we see the world is not actually the world in itself. What we see is our idea of it. The truth is, we have no notion of what the world is other than through the veils of our perception. — Emma Restall Orr

Miracle comes to the miraculous, not to the arithmetician. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

You're telling me you're not icing me out because of Tamara?"
"Why would I?"
He leaned closer and I sucked in my breath as his citrusy cologne hit me in delightful waves. "Because of what's between us."
Trembling now, I whispered. "There's nothing between us."
The gloom disappeared from Cole's eyes and the gold seemed to flare as heat entered them. "Nothing but a shitload of chemistry I've wanted to explore since we first met. — Samantha Young

My father was a great sympathizer of Ahad Ha'am. Every Friday night we would read Hebrew together, and often the reading was Ahad Ha'am's essays. — Noam Chomsky

I've been touring for so long, I've kind of honed into exactly what I am, I'm an artist so if you like it, you like it, if you don't you don't, you know? — Paul McDonald

More than the Jews have kept Shabbat, Shabbat has kept the Jews. — Ahad Ha'am

But now we are either horrified at what we see or we pretend we are horrified, while in reality we relish the spectacle, as connoisseurs of strong and eccentric sensations that rouse us from our cynical and lazy apathy; — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

And on the other hand, we see that the Israeli government is attacking that part of the Palestinian leader. — Rafik Hariri

This Moses, I say, this man of old time, whose existence and character you are trying to elucidate, matters to nobody but scholars like you. — Ahad Ha'am

At night I count
not the stars
but the dark. — Kevin Young

We are used to thinking of the Arabs as primitive men of the desert, as a donkey-like nation that neither sees nor understands what is going around it. But this is a GREAT ERROR. The Arab, like all sons of Sham, has sharp and crafty mind ... Should time come when life of our people in Palestine imposes to a smaller or greater extent on the natives, they WILL NOT easily step aside. — Ahad Ha'am

What is national freedom if not a people's inner freedom to cultivate its abilities along the beaten path of its history? — Ahad Ha'am

More than Israel has kept the Sabbath, the Sabbath has kept Israel. — Ahad Ha'am