Y L Peretz Quotes & Sayings

Don't look up to heaven, for what will you see in the sky, except stars, luminous but cold, wholly insensitive to pity? — I.L. Peretz

Prayer sometimes dulls the hunger of the pauper, like a mother's finger thrust into the mouth of her starving baby. — I.L. Peretz

The worst dog gets the best bone. — I.L. Peretz

If the husband sits on a chair in the Garden of Eden, his wife is his footstool. — I.L. Peretz

It was too sweet a moment to ruin by speaking mere words. Happiness was the bright blue moon, beaming amidst the bright stars of smiles that enveloped their countenances. — Sonali Dabade

We take a drink only for the sake of the benediction. — I.L. Peretz

At the Throne of Glory it is not the nobly-born that are beloved, but the nobly-risen. — I.L. Peretz

The Hebrew language ... is the only glue which holds together our scattered bones. It also holds together the rings in the chain of time ... It binds us to those who built pyramids, to those who shed their blood on the ramparts of Jerusalem, and to those who, at the burning stakes, cried Shema Yisrael! — I.L. Peretz

I've never been to the Soviet Union and the main reason for that is I was warned several times by people from the KGB who had defected to the West that it would be very unsafe for me to go there — Brian Crozier

In this world it is very dangerous to be weak. — I.L. Peretz

In the second and third exiles we have served as a living protest against greed and hate, against physical force, against "might makes right"! — I.L. Peretz

Yiddish, the language which will ever bear witness to the violence and murder inflicted on us, bear the marks of our expulsions from land to land, the language which absorbed the wails of the fathers, the laments of the generations, the poison and bitterness of history, the language whose precious jewels are the undried, uncongealed Jewish tears. — I.L. Peretz

Perhaps, however, music retains a survival role in adults in that it allows the 'practice' of feeling emotions without having to risk the consequences of acting on these emotions. — Isabelle Peretz

Ugliness is the greatest of all sins. — I.L. Peretz

Prosperity may be found in small as in big business. — I.L. Peretz

You seem to have powers that are hardly human, — Arthur Conan Doyle

Without being in constant exchange with the rest of the cosmos, you cannot exist. The idea of individuality is an illusion. — Jaggi Vasudev

A people's memory is history; and as a man without a memory, so a people without a history cannot grow wiser, better. — I.L. Peretz

Purim is the birthday of the first Schutz-Jude , the first Jewish toady to foreign royalty. — I.L. Peretz

[About Jews] By nature we are like all other human beings, yet our people is unlike others, because our life is different, our history is different, our teacher is the Exile. — I.L. Peretz

27Now you are the body of Christ, and each one of you is a part of it. — Anonymous

Many people are unaware that their every action (or their disinclination to take action) is a result of a belief or a thought pattern that developed throughout the years. — Gil Peretz, Nili Peretz

No one in our town ever really died, because no one in our town ever lived, or did good or evil. We had no saints or sinners, only daydreamers in the World of Illusion. — I.L. Peretz

[About Jews] Sheer egotism compels us to the purest love of mankind as a whole ... Our hearts are like a sponge, receptive to all the newest humanitarian ideas; and our sympathy goes out to all the unfortunate, all the oppressed. — I.L. Peretz

A letter depends on how you read it, a melody on how you sing it. — I.L. Peretz

It is not only individuals peoples too cannot live merely for themselves. The whole world must be redeemed. — I.L. Peretz

Jesus is apt to come, into the very midst of life at its most real and inescapable moments. Not in a blaze of unearthly light, not in the midst of a sermon, not in the throes of some kind of religious daydream, but ... at supper time, or walking along a road ... He never approached from on high, but always in the midst, in the midst of people, in the midst of real life and the questions that real life asks. — Frederick Buechner

Youth is fair, a graceful stag, Leaping, playing in a park. Age is gray, a toothless hag, Stumbling in the dark. — I.L. Peretz

Training in analysis (like any other form of chess training) should be treated very seriously. — Mark Dvoretsky

To be of the eternal, you must be of the earth. — I.L. Peretz

[About the diaspora] Canaan is too small for God's children. The Land of Israel will spread through all lands! — I.L. Peretz

[About Jews] Among other nations, the vital problems are: a good crop, extension of the boundaries, strong armies, colonies; among us, if we wish to be true to ourselves, the vital questions are: conscience, freedom, culture, ethics. — I.L. Peretz

A stranger's rose is but a thorn. — I.L. Peretz

Time is change, transformation, evolution. — I.L. Peretz

Money is only used for two things. One, it's to make you comfortable, and the more comfortable you are the more creative you will become. And the other purpose is it enables you to extend the service you provide far beyond your own presence. — Bob Proctor

God is a character, a real and consistent being, or He is nothing. If God did a miracle He would deny His own nature and the universe would simply blow up, vanish, become nothing. — Joyce Cary

There's a part of you, Gemma, that's so fucking sweet, and I want to steal that part of you, even though I know I shouldn't. — Ella Frank

A heap of bricks is not yet a house. — I.L. Peretz

Good morning!' Mom was standing in front of the stove, making bacon. 'Annemarie, I called your dad last night, and he told me that you have a thing for bacon omelettes.' 'Yum!' Annemarie said. 'That smells great. No wonder I'm so hungry.' I was staring. Mom had serious bed head and her eyes were puffy with sleep. But she was up at seven-thirty in the morning, making us bacon omelettes. I wanted to hug her. But didn't. — Rebecca Stead

Many refined people will not kill a fly, but eat an ox. — I.L. Peretz

Murray sounds like a blindfolded man riding a unicycle on the rim of the pit of doom, the men actually facing the danger are all so taciturn that you might as well try interviewing the cars themselves. — Clive James