Aleichem Author Quotes & Sayings

As a poet or a novelist or a painter, you are pushing yourself all the time, always looking for a new way to approach something, challenging yourself and never, never trying to write the same book twice. — Paul Auster

Once we reach our goal, we immediately feel compelled to set a higher goal. We're left in a vacuum of unfulfillment. — Jen Lilley

Taking personal accountability is a beautiful thing because it gives us complete control of our destinies. — Heather Schuck

The capitalist system is about taking from the Earth and from the other great commodity, labour. What's happening with this system is that the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer, and the only way out of it is supposed to be growth. But growth is debt. It's going to make the situation worse. — Vivienne Westwood

Pain does not define us, neither does joy; our deepest definition is independent of our experiences. — Bryant McGill

Just because we are working hard does not mean we are making anything happen. — Wayne Muller

One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. — George Orwell

I don't think there is a guy that played more gay characters than I have done in my life. — Antonio Banderas

I am surprised at the way people seem to perceive me, and sometimes I read stories and hear things about me and I go "ugh." I wouldn't like her either. It's so unlike what I think I am or what my friends think I am. — Hillary Clinton

A faith in culture is as bad as a faith in religion; both expressions imply a turning away from those very things which culture and religion are about. Culture as a collective name for certain very valuable activities is a permissible word; but culture hypostatized, set up on its own, made into a faith, a cause, a banner, a platform, is unendurable. For none of the activities in question cares a straw for that faith or cause. It is like a return to early Semitic religion where names themselves were regarded as powers. — C.S. Lewis

Elderly men who are popular with young women usually lack wisdom. — Nachman Of Breslov

He was the organised traveller type. The type that has to know the top ten tourist spots in a country and the five best ways to get to them. — S.A. Tawks