Hesternal Quotes & Sayings

The disappearance of the Jewish state will not mean the disappearance of anti-Semitism. — Jack Schwartz

Sometimes you believe that you are targeting a 25-35-year-old young woman and you see that there is a crowd of 78-year-old people who are coming to buy some underwear, so it's not exactly the same kind of underwear that you have to sell. — Maurice Levy

I was feeling a bit down, I went to a therapist a few times, at a hundred bucks a pop. But then I realized that no therapy session would ever cheer me up half as much as if I was just strolling along and found a hundred dollar bill. — Emo Philips

I stand before you to proclaim tonight: America is the land where dreams can come true for all of us. — Geraldine Ferraro

Just as a state's police swear to prevent and punish murder, so the signers of the Genocide Convention [in 1948] swore to police a brave new world order. The rhetoric of moral utopia is a peculiar response to genocide. But those were heady days, just after the trials at Nuremberg, when the full scale of the Nazi extermination of Jews all over Europe had been recognized as a fact of which nobody could any longer claim ignorance. The authors and signers of the Genocide Convention knew perfectly well that they had not fought World War II to stop the Holocaust but rather
and often, as in the case of the United States, reluctantly
to contain fascist aggression. What made those victorious powers, which dominated the UN then even more than they do now, imagine that they would act differently in the future? — Philip Gourevitch

My arms would be wrapped around him like angels' wings. — Jess C. Scott

There is a kind of misconception that Asian-Americans are not as American as European-Americans. — B. D. Wong

We don't see clearly because we don't see with the eyes of our heart. — John Eldredge

Hesternal, I remembered, meant, "pertaining to yesterday." I was nodding over the rest of the phrase — Alan Bradley

I believe art is utterly important. It is one of the things that could save us. — Mary Oliver

When I pull out vinyl - which isn't that often anymore - it's undeniable that I get a different feeling. There's a different physiology happening between the sound waves and the body that doesn't happen with music playing off the computer. — Beck