Shavit 2 Quotes & Sayings

I did not deceive him, he did not deceive me,
I did not leave him, he did not leave me,
I freed him, he freed me. — Sharon Olds

The only consolation, even for someone like him who had been a good man in bed, was sexual peace: the slow, merciful extinction of his venereal appetite. At eighty-one years of age he had enough lucidity to realize that he was attached to this world by a few slender threads that could break painlessly with a simple change in position while he slept, and if he did all he could to keep those threads intact, it was because of his terror of not finding God in the darkness of death. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

With a population of more than 600 million people, an emerging middle class that is driving strong consumption, and a robust and resilient economy, Southeast Asia presents a compelling growth opportunity for Starbucks. — Howard Schultz

In 30 minutes, at high noon, more than 200 civilians are killed. Zionism carries out a massacre in the city of Lydda. — Ari Shavit

We have always been involved in spiritual evolution. We are spiritual beings, we have always been spiritual beings and we will always be spiritual beings. — Gary Zukav

and who compound that error by conflating their sense of truth — Bradley Shavit Artson

Ari Shavit's My Promised Land is without question one of the most important books about Israel and Zionism that I have ever read ... This is the book that has the capacity to reinvent and reshape the long-overdue conversation about how Israel's complex past ought to shape its still-uncertain future. — Daniel Gordis

You want much from life, and life will give you much, but there are things it won't give you, and victory today is one of them. This will be one defeat; more will follow. Victories will follow too. You are not in this life to count up victories and defeats. You are in it to love and be loved. You are loved with your head down. You will be loved whether you finish or not. — Matthew Thomas

While I regard the Nakba as an ongoing crime that needs to be prosecuted and reversed ... Shavit defends its necessity and lectures Palestinians trapped in squalid refugee camps to just get over it. — Max Blumenthal

I hear nothings, I speak nothings, I take interest in nothing and from nothing to nothing I travel gently down the dull way which leads to becoming nothing. — Marie Anne De Vichy-Chamrond, Marquise Du Deffand

They must move from a psychological state of victimization to a psychological state of accepting responsibility. The Palestinians must leave behind their revolutionary adolescence and demonstrate that they have reached political maturity. — Ari Shavit

returned to sow the valley. In the communal dining hall, they sing joyfully. They dance through the night, into the light of dawn. — Ari Shavit

Only a few years ago did it suddenly dawn on me that my existential fear regarding my nation's future and my moral outrage regarding my nation's occupation policy are not unconnected. On the one hand, Israel is the only nation in the West that is occupying another people. On the other hand, Israel is the only nation in the West that is existentially threatened. Both occupation and intimidation make the Israeli condition unique. Intimidation and occupation have become the two pillars of our condition. — Ari Shavit

It is depressing but not shocking to witness the liberal intelligentsia embrace Ari Shavit so enthusiastically. Shavit is someone who is as consistently wrong as Thomas Friedman on major issues, and at least as much a courtier of power. — Max Blumenthal

If some one commits an error and wrong toward you, you must instantly forgive him. — Abdu'l- Baha