Dahlia Ravikovitch Quotes

#1. The old lady whirled round, and snatched her skirts out of danger. The lad fled on the instant, scrambled up the high board-fence, and disappeared over it.

Mark Twain

#2. There are things about growing up in a small town that you can't necessarily quantify.

Brandon Routh

#3. From 1836, down to last year, there is no proof of the Government having any confidence in the duration of peace, or possessing increased security against war.

Richard Cobden

#4. I had a fair idea how it felt to get spanked with a large flat surface, and my rump clenched in sympathy.

Rick Riordan

#5. There are natures in which, if they love us, we are conscious of having a sort of baptism and consecration.

George Eliot

#6. For many people, one of the most frustrating aspects of life is not being able to understand other people's behavior.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#7. Besides, Watson," he added, with a glint of humour in his grey eyes, "you, after all, are a man of the world. We must put your skills to use, for there is no greater tragedy on God's green earth than that of untapped talent.

Lyndsay Faye

#8. I'd loved to wear jeans and t-shirts, but everybody was in the peace movement back then. And that was my ploy. I had to be careful not to say things like 'I like meat.' Actually I just wanted to drink beer and to screw.

Ed O'Neill

#9. It was as if the two women represented the poles of his desires, one of them forthright, spontaneous and simple in her tastes; the other engimatic, sophisticated, wedded to luxury.

Amitav Ghosh

#10. My parenting success is measured in the two inches my child raises his chin, upon hearing me speak of him.

Garry Fitchett

#11. Sometimes this world comes between us and what we love. But if we are patient, when this world passes away, there will be no more separation.

Yasmin Mogahed

#12. Did you ever get the feeling that the world is a tuxedo and you're a pair of brown shoes?

George Gobel

#13. Blind and naked ignorance delivers brawling judgments, unashamed, on all things all day long

Alfred Lord Tennyson

#14. Walk tall but don't bang your head on low hanging branches.

Peter James West