Zvika Fohrman Quotes & Sayings

The leader is best, When people are hardly aware of his existence, Not so good when people praise his government, Less good when people stand in fear, Worst, when people are contemptuous. Fail to honor people, and they will fail to honor you. But of a good leader, who speaks little, When his work is done, his aim fulfilled, The people say, 'We did it ourselves.' — Laozi

What a person is for himself, what abides with him in his loneliness and isolation, and what no one can give or take away from him, this is obviously more essential for him than everything that he possesses or what he may be in the eyes of others ... — Arthur Schopenhauer

So when you do board, the first class people, they're sitting there. A lot of them are working as your boarding. They have computers out and calculators. They're looking up at you like, Hey, we're making money right now! Right now we're making money. — Brian Regan

At the end of the day the fence were still not complete but my family had witnessed my new strength and they I could be the man — Peter Carey

What we see strongly guides what we do: To an extent, we enact what we imagine. — Trevor Paglen

Grief should have been all-consuming. I hated myself that it wasn't. But sometimes I forgot. Jesus, how could I fucking forget? Sometimes I went for minutes without remembering my dad was dead, but that whole time it was regrouping so it could hit me all over again. — Lisa Henry

By the time I sit down and face the blank page I am raring to go. I tell it as if I'm talking to my best friend or one of my grandchildren. — Michael Morpurgo

If you judge me negatively, as you would a book by it's cover, you'd be surprised by what you see written on the pages inside — Rick Ferreira

Humans needed water or they would die, but dirty water killed as surely as thirst. You had to boil it before you drank it. This culture around tea was a way of tiptoeing along the knife edge between those two ways of dying. — Neal Stephenson

She was, in fact, often wrong
and knew it. Life became difficult when those who were often wrong did not know it. — Alexander McCall Smith