Ahad Ha'am Quotes

#1. When I quit The New York Times to be a fulltime mother, the voices of the world said I was nuts ... But if success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your soul, it is not success at all.

Anna Quindlen

#2. Sometimes life is truly woeful.

Arto Paasilinna

#3. If this be the Messiah, then I do not wish to see his coming

Ahad Ha'am

#4. We can't ignore the fact that ahead of us is a great war and this war is going to need significant preparation.

Ahad Ha'am

#5. What is national freedom if not a people's inner freedom to cultivate its abilities along the beaten path of its history?

Ahad Ha'am

#6. Of course people think Washington is arrogant. It is.

Carly Fiorina

#7. I grew up with just my mum and sister, so I respect women a lot.

Harry Styles

#8. The less their ability, the more their conceit.

Ahad Ha'am

#9. This Moses, I say, this man of old time, whose existence and character you are trying to elucidate, matters to nobody but scholars like you.

Ahad Ha'am

#10. Says he, 'I am a handsome man, but I'm a gay deceiver'.

George Colman

#11. Reason has so many forms that we do not know which to choose-Experiment has no fewer.

Michel De Montaigne

#12. More than Israel has kept the Sabbath, the Sabbath has kept Israel.

Ahad Ha'am

#13. Suddenly she was here. And I was no longer pregnant; I was a mother. I never believed in miracles before.

Ellen Greene

#14. Historical truth is that, and that alone, which reveals the forces that go to mould the social life of mankind.

Ahad Ha'am

#15. [But if things continue the way they are] ... the society that I envision, if my dream is not just a false notion, this society will have to begin to create itself in the midst of fuss, noisiness and panic, and will have to face the prospects of both internal and external war ...

Ahad Ha'am

#16. More than the Jews have kept Shabbat, Shabbat has kept the Jews.

Ahad Ha'am

#17. Besides a mathematical inclination, an exceptionally good mastery of one's native tongue is the most vital asset of a competent programmer.

Edsger W. Dijkstra

#18. I love good beats and good lyrics. I'm pretty open.

Tika Sumpter

#19. My father was a great sympathizer of Ahad Ha'am. Every Friday night we would read Hebrew together, and often the reading was Ahad Ha'am's essays.

Noam Chomsky