Anat Quotes

#1. Identifying Israel with Jewry obscures the existence of the small but important post-Zionist movement in Israel, including the philosophers Adi Ophir and Anat Biletzki, the sociologist Uri Ram, the professor of theatre Avraham Oz and the poet Yitzhak Laor.

Judith Butler

#2. The waiter at the King David brought her change, and, in his eyes, his condolences for the meeting that had not taken place. For five hours he had watched her sit in a garden chair, straight-backed and full of anticipation, until hope had abandoned her and she slumped, weary.

Anat Talshir

#3. History teaches that nations do not learn from history.

Bruce Fein

#4. Lila realized that looking after the girl dispelled any fears of her own, which is how people who have to save their children must feel. When you are looking after someone, your own fear shrinks. The

Anat Talshir

#5. Nobody can bring peace here. It's not something you can import from America. It has to come from this place, from the people." "If

Anat Talshir

#6. You should never start thinking about 'what might have been,' and you should also never start thinking about another boy when you're heartbroken over someone else.

Lauren Barnholdt

#7. ...hope nourishes while loss empties a person out," he said.... "Lila, my love, my love,...lay down your weapons. Don't punish us because I told myself a different story than the one you told yourself.

Anat Talshir

#8. I know some people are offended by the fact that I'm spending a lot of money trying to win the America's Cup. I could have given all that money to charity.

Larry Ellison

#9. The Jews are pioneers; they are always the ones to change the face of the world.

Anat Talshir

#10. I'm much pickier about what I put in my body. I always read labels now, whereas before I didn't even think to.

Nicky Hilton

#11. Lending dollars to the U.S. government is essentially riskless because the U.S. government can always pay such debts. If necessary, the Federal Reserve can print dollars to pay the debt.

Anat Admati

#12. A good wit will make use of anything.

William Shakespeare

#13. The route of expropriation, and especially in energy matters, is not what most promotes investment or generates greater confidence.

Enrique Pena Nieto

#14. What is it about tea that attracts you?" she asked. "Its taste evokes memories," he said. "The feeling of something familiar that you've already experienced but not yet tasted." Even

Anat Talshir

#15. The politics of banking is bad everywhere, including UK. Eurozone has more problems, unhealthy symbiosis.

Anat R. Admati

#16. His mother asked, "And when is a marriage successful?" He had the feeling she was about to provide the answer, the very answer that people the world over were searching for. And he was right. "When the wife loves the husband," Nadira told him. "Not just loves him, but is crazy about him! Only then.

Anat Talshir

#17. I'm a very soft-spoken person. I don't throw furniture. I don't throw tantrums.

Jennifer Yuh Nelson

#18. Typical reaction to scrutiny: attack and mock messenger and message, minimize the problem, hope attention dies down.

Anat R. Admati

#19. I am a hyphenated person, but I am not falling apart; I am putting together.

Guillermo Verdecchia

#20. Is this complicated, risky [banking] system the best we can have?

Anat R. Admati

#21. Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms.

Groucho Marx

#22. He was charming, but he did not slather his charm around in great quantities. He merely drizzled it.

Anat Talshir

#23. No business in the economy has the easy money that banks get to play with ... The existence of banks with single digit amounts of equity is a completely unhealthy existence
that is not only a risk for the banks, but for all of us.

Anat R. Admati

#24. Publish and be damned.

H.L. Mencken

#25. [Our children] walk among us like mirrors, our X-rays. In them we see what we love but also what we'd like to forget about ourselves. Our shortcomings are forever enshrined.

Anat Talshir

#26. Experience coupled with attention leads to physical changes in the structure and functioning of the nervous system.

Anat Baniel

#27. We're going to see even more empty restaurants and out of work waiters if fewer of us can pay for our meals. And the end of Taco Tuesdays is only the beginning. When

Anat Shenker-Osorio

#28. Before you make a friend, eate a bushell of salt with him.
[Before you make a friend, eat a bushel of salt with him.]

George Herbert

#29. As if when someone close to us dies, we momentarily trade places with them, in the moment right before. And as we get over it, we're really living their life in reverse, from death to life, from sickness to health.

David Levithan

#30. Beware of economists who hide assumptions.

Anat R. Admati