Devil's Arithmetic Theme Quotes & Sayings

What intelligent being, what being capable of responding emotionally to a beautiful sight, can look at the jagged, silvery lunar crescent trembling in the azure sky, even through the weakest of telescopes, and not be struck by it in an intensely pleasurable way, not feel cut off from everyday life here on Earth and transported toward that first step on celestial journeys? — Camille Flammarion

In a hundred years, how do you want the world to be? Everybody should get together to make the world a better place. — Liya Kebede

Have the backbone to go after what you want in life. It's too easy to settle. — Ziad K. Abdelnour

To me, it doesn't really matter how big the part is as long as the part is important to the story. — Steve Buscemi

I don't understand writers who feel they shouldn't have to do any of the ordinary things of life, because I think that this is necessary: one has to keep in touch with that ... The ordinary action of taking a dress down to the dry cleaner's or spraying some plants infected with greenfly is a very sane and good thing to do. It brings one back, so to speak. It also brings the world back. — Nadine Gordimer

I'd rather have 1% of the effort of 100 men than 100% of my own effort. — J. Paul Getty

The struggle against poverty in the world and the challenge of cutting wealthy country emissions all has a single, very simple solution ... Here it is: Put a price on carbon. — Al Gore

I began to be involved (with exercise). It was a little bit like sex sometimes - you know how sometimes you're kind of disinterested, kind of uninvolved, and slowly you begin to become interested? — Diane Von Furstenberg

It's fear of the unknown. The unknown is what it is. And to be frightened of it is what sends everybody scurrying around chasing dreams, illusions, wars, peace, love, hate, all that-it's all illusion. Unknown is what it is. Accept that it's unknown and it's plain sailing. Everything is unknown-then you're ahead of the game. That's what it is. Right? — John Lennon

In the end the war was Hitler's war. It was not perhaps the war he wanted. But it was the war he was prepared to risk if he had to. Nothing could deter him...He was no longer prepared to wait on events. He needed to force them to manipulate them to manufacture incidents to create pretexts for action. — Donald Cameron Watt

There's a goose asleep in the rain! — Roger Hargreaves

G'day, ladies and gentlemen. Damien your cruise director here. — Sarah Lotz