Hebrew And Aramaic Quotes & Sayings

Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel the time was wasted. — Kurt Vonnegut

Even now, I change my style and clothes from one day to the next, but during high school I blended in. I think a lot of people are that way. I guess that's why I can write about an array of characters. — Cecily Von Ziegesar

The building of America has had its fair share of mistakes, but it's a constitution that's the jewel of democracy, the envy of many, and it's the most generous nation in the world. — Gary Oldman

Sleeping in the back of the van was cramped and a little stuffy-like sleeping in a compartment on a train, Kaitlyn guessed. But she didn't really mind being crowded in with Rob. He was warm and nice to hang on to. Comfortingly solid. — L.J.Smith

The Jewish people have been in exile for 2,000 years; they have lived in hundreds of countries, spoken hundreds of languages and still they kept their old language, Hebrew. They kept their Aramaic, later their Yiddish; they kept their books; they kept their faith. — Isaac Bashevis Singer

The original text of the Bible was perhaps written in Hebrew and Aramaic and later translated into Greek. — Sudhir Ahluwalia

It's only those that deserve nothing that want everything — Roshani Chokshi

From the moment Adam named his wife 'Eve' her defining moment was eminently predictable. Almost inevitably, it was going to revolve around an incident with a serpent.

Her name Hebrew name Hawwah may mean life or living or mother of all living but it is particularly close to the Aramaic word, 'hiwya', serpent. — Anne Hamilton

What was ridiculous about Christianity, from the perspective of a cultivated pagan, was not only its language - the crude style of the Gospels' Greek resting on the barbarous otherness of Hebrew and Aramaic - but also its exaltation of divine humiliation and pain conjoined with an arrogant triumphalism. — Stephen Greenblatt

Books that Uncle bought in Odessa or acquired in Heidelberg, books that he discovered in Lausanne or found in Berlin or Warsaw, books he ordered from America and books the like of which exist nowhere but in the Vatican Library, in Hebrew, Aramaic, Syriac, classical and modern Greek, Sanskrit, Latin, medieval Arabic, Russian, English, German, Spanish, Polish, French, Italian, and languages and dialects I had never even heard of, like Ugaritic and Slovene, Maltese and Old Church Slavonic. — Amos Oz

Oh I'm sorry dear, because she's a spoiled brat and doesn't think about the consequences of her actions. Is that better? — Evelyn Smith

The vagina is obliterated from the imagery of femininity in the same way that the signs of independence and vigor in the rest of her body are suppressed. — Germaine Greer

Optimism is a competitive advantage. — Jon Gordon

[H]istory, in the end, is only another kind of story, and stories are different from the truth. The truth is messy and chaotic and all over the place. Often it just doesn't make sense. Stories make things make sense, but the way they do that is to leave out anything that doesn't fit. And often that is quite a lot. — Paul Murray

But where Moabite differed from Hebrew the difference pointed to Phoenician on the one side and to Arabic on the other, rather than Aramaic. — John Courtenay James

Let this meeting be as cryptic - as representative/nonrepresentative - as the Arameans, a people that never had a land of their own but still managed to leave behind their language - the only thing they left behind, their language. Aramaic. Ha lachma anya. This is the bread of affliction. Eli Eli lama shavaktani? Father, Father, why didn't Christ quote the Psalms in Hebrew - was he that inept, or does excruciation always call for the vernacular? — Joshua Cohen

When we tend to the areas of life that are important to us, when we make those things a priority, that's when we will flourish in those areas. — Victoria Osteen

Anger, used, does not destroy. Hatred does. — Audre Lorde

The Zenjirli inscriptions supply far more suggestive criteria, and show how cautious we must be in coming to conclusions respecting the unity of the Aramaic language. These inscriptions are in many ways more akin to Hebrew and Assyrian than to Aramaic. — John Courtenay James