Israel Wise Quotes & Sayings

We'll never abandon ourselves to the Spirit as long as we think we can change without Him. — Larry Crabb

I taught myself to read music at a very young age, so when I started to take lessons in school, the teachers used to give me other instruments to keep me busy, because I was more advanced than the other kids. — Stefon Harris

I don't think a wise thing at this moment is for Israel to launch a military attack on Iran. — William Hague

You would be surprised how many people are in the market not to make money but for the thrill of it! — Venita VanCaspel

Good marketers measure. — Seth Godin

The nations of antiquity rolled away in the current of ages, Israel alone remained one indestructible edifice of gray antiquity ... preserved by an internal and marvelous power. — Isaac Mayer Wise

Global warming is more of a blessing than a curse. — Julian Barnes

God saw fit, for wise reasons to allow the people of Israel thus to make and possess slaves; but is this any license to us to enslave any of our fellow-men, to kill any of our fellow-men whom we please and are able to destroy, and take possession of their estates? — Samuel Hopkins

One rabbi compared wise men studying the law to children tossing a ball to one another: a first sage said the meaning was this, another said the meaning was that, one gave his opinion, another begged to differ. — Israel Shenker

My mother lived alone in the ruins of the great Library, which was called Compleat, and a very passionate and dashing Library indeed. Under the slightly blackened rafters and more than slightly caved-in walls, my mother lived and read and dreamed, allowing herself to grow closer and closer to Compleat, to notice more and more how fine and straight his shelves remained, despite great structural stress. That sort of moral fortitude is rare in this day and age. By and by, my siblings and I were born and romped on the balconies, raced up and down the splintered ladders, and pored over many encyclopedias and exciting novels. I know just everything about everything - so long as it beings with A through L. — Catherynne M Valente

We live in the right time, even if it doesn't always feel like it. — Andrew Solomon