Avidan Quotes

#1. Here you have an incredibly ambitious, accomplished woman who comes up against some of the same problems that women in power come up against today. Cleopatra plays an oddly pivotal role in world history as well; in her lifetime, Alexandria is the center of the universe, Rome is still a backwater.

Stacy Schiff

#2. But just because you can never reach it, doesn't mean that it's not worth looking for.

Norton Juster

#3. I'm someone who likes to keep busy, especially with projects that I find meaningful and fulfilling.

Niki Taylor

#4. The main failure of education is that it has not prepared people to comprehend matters concerning human destiny.

Norman Cousins

#5. Everything takes time. You have to love the journey and the process.

Benson Henderson

#6. As I'm sure you know by now, most people aren't really very happy. Beyond their surface appearances, the smiles they wear for the rest of the world, most people are soul-sick.

Frederick Lenz

#7. It is high time that the international community tell Saddam Hussein and his regime that this is not an issue of negotiation with the U.N. about obligations that they undertook in 1991.

Condoleezza Rice

#8. I don't even own a cell phone.

Jack Nicholson

#9. It was bad enough for white people, but when one of your own color could be so different it put you on a wonder. It was like seeing your sister turn into a 'gator. A familiar strangeness. You keep seeing your sister in the 'gator and the 'gator in your sister, and you'd rather not.

Zora Neale Hurston

#10. Now that our troops are mired in a dangerous effort to defeat the insurgency and are also trying to help rebuild the country, Americans of all political persuasions simply want the United States to succeed and our troops to be as safe as possible.

Harry Reid

#11. Oh, a pipe smoker," said Henry. "Well, that narrows it down." "Sometimes," said Doyle, "there is nothing so significant as a trifle.

Seth Grahame-Smith

#12. Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission.

Arnold Bennett

#13. If you put good apples into a bad situation, you'll get bad apples.

Philip G. Zimbardo

#14. The hand that punched is the hands that gives compassion

David Avidan