Chaim Potok The Chosen Quotes

#1. The world bein' so small ain't always a good thing for those of us who ain't searchin' for new and different stuff.

Dan Groat

#2. Every jacket I make has interior pockets big enough to store a book and a sandwich and a passport.

Rick Owens

#3. It took two days to cross that ashen scabland. The road beyond fell away on every side. It's snowing, the boy said. He looked at the sky. A single gray flake sifting down. He caught it in his hand and watched it expire there like the last host of christendom.

Cormac McCarthy

#4. The hardship of living in a refugee camp made me psychologically strong.

Philip Emeagwali

#5. Look Below and You'll feel Rich,
Look Above and You'll feel Poor

Vineet Raj Kapoor

#6. Well, in The Chosen, Danny Saunders, from the heart of his religious reading of the world, encounters an element in the very heart of the secular readings of the world - Freudian psychoanalytic theory.

Chaim Potok

#7. She's pure evil. Stay on her good side."
"And here I thought she hated me because I don't sing stupid songs.

Heather Davis

#8. Universe is nothing, but human thought.

Farid Huseynli

#9. O God, do not leave me. I have done nothing good in Your sight, but according to Your goodness, let me now make a beginning of good.

Arsenius The Great

#10. Chaim Potok wrote two novels that I think are indispensable to understanding the Hasidic and Orthodox American Jewish communities following the Holocaust: The Chosen and My Name Is Asher Lev.

Nancy Pearl

#11. Sometimes my feelings get so big that I just want to swim out into the darkness. Just jump off the end of the world. Sometimes I want to dig, right down to the bones of everything. Sometimes when you dig, you dig up stuff you might not want to find. But that's where the good stuff lies.

Cecil Castellucci

#12. In her abhorrrence of a vacuum, Nature, for the furtherance of her favorite hobby, has often to resort to strange devices. If she could but understand that vacuity is sometimes better than superfluity!

Ellen Glasgow

#13. But then, it's probably different when you're young.

John Ajvide Lindqvist

#14. I had been told that the training procedure with cats was difficult. It's not. Mine had me trained in two days.

Bill Dana

#15. Knowledge begets power. "Power begets force. "Force is applied from ignorance." With a smile of habit, I looked at the blond youth on the end. "Sergol? Would you finish it?" "Knowledge leads to ignorance.

L.E. Modesitt Jr.

#16. My writing is an answer to the partisans of the many and it returns their attack with interest, with a view to showing that the hypothesis of the many, if examined sufficiently in detail, leads to even more ridiculous results than the hypothesis of the One

Zeno Of Elea

#17. There is nothing wrong with being on the bottom once in awhile, but don't stay there, women! New positions will give you new perspective, and new perspective will give you new experiences, and new experiences will give you a meaningful life.

Toni Sorenson