Avram Quotes & Sayings

The abstract, unreal freedom of the liberal intellect was really nothing more than childish disobedience, amplified into anarchy. — Roger Scruton

Socrates.- If all goes well, the time will come when one will take up the memorabilia of Socrates rather than the Bible as a guide to morals and reason ... The pathways of the most various philosophical modes of life lead back to him ... Socrates excels the founder of Christianity in being able to be serious cheerfully and in possessing that wisdom full of roguishness that constitutes the finest state of the human soul. And he also possessed the finer intellect. — Friedrich Nietzsche

The pursuit of happiness is a matter of choice ... it is a positive attitude we choose to express. It is not a gift delivered to our door each morning, nor does it come through the window. And it is certain that our circumstances are not the things that make us joyful. If we wait for them to get just right, we will never laugh again. — Charles R. Swindoll

What is cheaper than lust or of less value than alchemy or aphrodisiacs? — Avram Davidson

a good vocabulary helps the reader understand the context of the message. — Jonathan Wallace

The world changes, we do not, therein lies the irony that kills us. — Anne Rice

I went to the Technion and studied with Avram Hershko. I found it more exciting than practicing medicine. — Aaron Ciechanover

Avram was shocked. "Well, how is the sand feeling?" he asked after a moment.
"Crowded. — Jill Hammer

If you send someone a snarky Tweet, does that make you an Angry Bird? — Avram Ohm

Spying came to him as making love comes to other men. It is his belief, in fact, that his father may have had relations with the Okhrana, the czar's intelligence service, though his murder by the Turks was haphazard - simply one act in a village slaughter. But Avram knew them, whether they were Turkish Aghas or British officers, he always understood how they worked, where their vulnerabilities lay. — Alan Furst

As Americans we like to believe that we're loved in international politics or that people like what we're doing. But we also recognize that we have an extraordinary responsibility to do what we think is right, and that sometimes what we do is not very popular. — Condoleezza Rice

I was never the biggest kid or the best looking kid or the most popular kid, but that's not all it takes. Sometimes you turn those weaknesses into strengths and wear it like a badge and see what it does. — Colin Munroe

Are you going to cry when you hand your Evie Girl over to me? You never cry for me. I think I'd like to see it. — Kele Moon

Everyone, at some point in their lives, wakes up in the middle of the night with the feeling that they are all alone in the world, and that nobody loves them now and that nobody will ever love them, and that they will never have a decent night's sleep again and will spend their lives wandering blearily around a loveless landscape, hoping desperately that their circumstances will improve, but suspecting, in their heart of hearts, that they will remain unloved forever. The best thing to do in these circumstances is to wake somebody else up, so that they can feel this way, too. — Lemony Snicket

Maybe books are best, because you don't have to have money to read... A man can travel all over the world and come back the same kind of fool he was when he started. You can't do that with books. — James A. Michener

I had been blind to the pain of others until I had my own burden to carry. — Alice Hoffman

We need a Nuremberg to put on trial the economic order that they have imposed on us, that every three years kills more men, women and children by hunger and preventable or curable diseases than the death toll in six years of the second world war. — Fidel Castro

In life, you must be friendly, generous and patient. Only by giving unconditionally, by always seeking to understand, and by loving genuinely can you be sure that others will consider doing the same for you. — Avram E. Cosmin

Dylan Thomas, asked what he thought of Welsh Nationalism, replied in three words, two of which were 'Welsh Nationalism.' — Avram Davidson