Ramat Gan Quotes & Sayings

Blue is the male principle, stern and spiritual. Yellow the female principle, gentle, cheerful and sensual. Red is matter, brutal and heavy and always the colour which must be fought and vanquished by the other two. — Franz Marc

Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters. — Victor Hugo

The difference between self love and being in love with yourself is that one results in giving and the other in taking. — Jeffrey Fry

I've never read anywhere that you have to understand everything before you take a feeble step in the right direction. — Daniel Foxx

For me the end of a book is just as exciting as it is for a reader. — Lee Child

You cannot and should not try to please everyone. Make sure that the right people like you, and it will be expected that others will not. That's how the world works. — David Maister

In one particular chapter in Ulysses, James Joyce imitates every major writing style that's been used by English and American writers over the last 700 years - starting with Beowulf and Chaucer and working his way up through the Renaissance, the Victorian era and on into the 20th century. — Frederick Lenz

There's nothing cure or funny or lovable about being cheap. It's a total turn-off. — Douglas Coupland

A pen and a notebook and a reasonable amount of discrimination will change a journey from a mere annual into a perennial, its pleasures and pains renewable at will. — Freya Stark

True contemplation is not a psychological trick but a theological grace. It can come to us ONLY as a gift, and not as a result of our own clever use of spiritual techniques. — Thomas Merton

Bethlehem is emphatically a place where extremes meet. — G.K. Chesterton

A true Arab knows how to catch a fly in his hands,"
my father would say. And he'd prove it,
cupping the buzzer instantly
while the host with the swatter stared.
In the spring our palms peeled like snakes.
True Arabs believed watermelon could heal fifty ways.
I changed these to fit the occasion.
Years before, a girl knocked,
wanted to see the Arab.
I said we didn't have one.
After that, my father told me who he was,
"Shihab" - "shooting star"
a good name, borrowed from the sky.
Once I said, "When we die, we give it back?"
He said that's what a true Arab would say. — Naomi Shihab Nye

I know I shall not live very long ... If I've painted three good pictures, then I shall leave gladly with flowers in my hand and my hair. — Paula Modersohn-Becker

Even if I tried to fill up the stadium in Ramat Gan, I don't think I could. — Ada Yonath

I still feel like a nerd. — Judd Apatow

AND i WAS FED UP WitH NOt HAViNG (PiNK POlKA DOT) FUllY FASHiONED GlAMOUR StOlKiNGS! — Barbara Castle

We lived in the provincial town of Ramat Gan where I spent most of my youth adjacent to the chess board. — Arnon Goldfinger