Elhanan Ben Avraham Quotes

#1. You were crying. It's a terrible thing, loving the sea."
"Yes," she whispered, her eyes straying to it. Waves gathered and broke invisibly in the dark, reaching toward her, pulling back. They were never silent, they never spoke.

Patricia A. McKillip

#2. Each State can have for enemies only other States, and not men; for between things disparate in nature there can be no real relation.

Jean-Baptiste Rousseau

#3. Celebrate what you've accomplished, but raise the bar a little higher each time you succeed.

Mia Hamm

#4. When the CIA is the place you turn to for moral clarity, Nakamura thought, you might have a problem.

Ramez Naam

#5. When you interview celebrities, they're so guarded so many times, they can't reveal anything.

Chelsea Handler

#6. There was no sign of any life, just erratic hints of a faded sun peeking down with sorrow on the dead world it once nourished.

C.J. Anderson

#7. A life of writing books is a trying adventure in which you cannot find out where you are unless you lose your way.

Philip Roth

#8. I am too far away from what I love and my distance is without remedy.

Albert Camus

#9. Perhaps I am a bear, or some hibernating animal underneath, for the instinct to be half asleep all winter is so strong in me.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#10. A gaffe is a politician inadvertently telling an inconvenient truth.

Michael Kinsley

#11. It would be easier to write a novel without reader input, but I feel the fiction is richer for it.

Piers Anthony

#12. Then how unconfident of Itself this Deity was, Who didn't want Its finest creations to know right from wrong; and Who reigned by terror, insisting upon the unqualified submission of even Its closest associates, packing off all dissidents to Its blazing Siberias, the gulag-infernos of Hell ...

Salman Rushdie

#13. What I'd say about that is that we must respect homosexuals in the church. I've got many homosexual friends, the issue is not in any way a homophobic reaction on my part.

George Carey

#14. I was really blessed with parents who never said I couldn't do anything. And now I reflect as an adult on that, 'Wow, they never told me no!'

Olesya Rulin