Machabeli Street Quotes & Sayings

We should always forgive. We should forgive the repentant for their sake, the unrepentant for our sake. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

A graveyard could be so densely populated and yet it was the loneliest place on earth. — John Ajvide Lindqvist

Skilled verse is the work of a profound skeptic. — Paul Valery

After five years, look at it with suspicion. And after ten years, throw it away and start all over. — Alfred E. Perlman

My father's attitude was that this was but an inevitable phase of my growing up and he affected to take it lightly. But beneath his jocular, boys-together air, he was at a loss, he was frightened. Perhaps he had supposed that my growing up would bring us closer together - whereas, now that he was trying to find out something about me, I was in full flight from him. I did not want him to know me. I did not want anyone to know me. And then, again, I was undergoing with my father what the very young inevitably undergo with their elders: I was beginning to judge him. And the very harshness of this judgment, which broke my heart, revealed, though I could not have said it then, how much I had loved him, how that love, along with my innocence, was dying. — James Baldwin

Every feeling is a field of energy. A pleasant feeling is an energy which can nourish. Irritation is a feeling which can destroy. Under the light of awareness, the energy of irritation can be transformed into and energy which nourishes. — Nhat Hanh

The dog barking at you from behind his master's fence acts for a motive indistinguishable from that of his master when the fence was built. — Robert Ardrey

A boy trying out a man's language. — Eowyn Ivey

All of us have just got to find that time to look after our bodies. That helps us make sure that our mind is sharp. I know that when I'm feeling great and really fit, I can get in three or four hours more of really productive work. — Richard Branson

America is one long expectoration. — Oscar Wilde

Ambition is like love, impatient both of delays and rivals. — Gautama Buddha