Arieh Ben Naim Quotes & Sayings

Who needed facts when fiction was so much more titillating? — Dee Tenorio

Words bounce. Words, if you let them, will do what they want to do and what they have to do. — Anne Carson

The Spirit of Cities presents a new approach to the study of cities in which the focus is placed on a city's defining ethos or values. The style of the book is attractively conversational and even autobiographical, and far from current social science positivism. For a lover of cities
and perhaps even for one who is not
The Spirit of Cities is consistently good reading. — Nathan Glazer

I've never been very cookie cutter. If I choose something different from the status quo, it's my responsibility and my choice to live my life that way. — Sara Ramirez

A perpetual conflict with natural desires seems to be the lot of our present state. In youth we require something of the tardiness and frigidity of age; and in age we must labour to recall the fire and impetuosity of youth; in youth we must learn to respect, and in age to enjoy. — Lyndon B. Johnson

The next minute he realized what had happened to him, but not before she'd caught him staring.
For a decade, I was fixated by her beauty. I wrote an entire article on the evolutionary significance of beauty as a rebuke to myself, that I, who understood the concepts so well, nevertheless could not escape the magnetic pull of one particular woman's beauty.
She knew. With surgical precision, she had peeled back his layers of defenses, until his heart lay bare before her, all its shame and yearning exposed.
He could have lived with this if only he'd kept his secret whole and buried. But she knew. She knew. — Sherry Thomas

With patient, you shall possess your soul. — Lailah Gifty Akita

My greatest concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are concerned with your failure. — Abraham Lincoln

Putting her mind to it, Love would become familiar with his body. She would know him from top to bottom, from beginning to end. Touching this boy would be the death, and life, of her. She — Natalia Jaster

My mother's sympathies were strongly with the Union. She knew that war was bound to come, but so confident was she in the strength of the Federal Government that she devoutly believed that the struggle could not last longer than six months at the utmost. — Buffalo Bill

I know by now you think I should have straightened myself out - Thank you, drop dead! — Morrissey