Rabban Gamliel Quotes & Sayings

Be careful in your relations with those in power; they draw you close or allow you to approach them only when they need you. They are your friends when your friendship is useful to them and affords them pleasure, but they forget you when you are in trouble.
Elie Wiesel quoting Rabban Gamliel — Elie Wiesel

But I guess you would look beatific, too, if the man you had been in love with since the fifth grade had told you that he was in love with you, too. — Meg Cabot

Every cell is a triumph of natural selection, and we're made of trillions of cells. Within us, is a little universe. — Carl Sagan

What is reason given me for, if I am not to use it to avoid bringing unhappy beings into the world! — Leo Tolstoy

You would think that people who had experienced injustice would be loath to inflict it on others, and yet they do so with alacrity. The victims become victimizers with a chilling righteousness. This is the nature of fanaticism, to attract and provoke extremes of behavior. And this is why fanatics are all the same, whatever specific form their fanaticism takes. — Michael Crichton

A stream of ideal tendency embedded in the external structure of the world. — William James

When people tell a lie about something, they have to make up a bunch of lies to go with the first one. 'Mythomania' is the word for it. — Haruki Murakami

And my friend Karen remembers
as a little girl
studying Hebrew she inquired
of her refugee tutor who stroked his beard
and said in Yiddish "if there is a god
or if there isn't a god
a Jew studies"
isn't that a good story
beloved, but the woman in me
says that the poet lies
the poet can afford to lie — Alicia Suskin Ostriker