Hebraism Quotes

#1. The governing idea of Hellenism is spontaneity of consciousness ; that of Hebraism, strictness of conscience .

Matthew Arnold

#2. How about I kiss you so we can get past this awkwardness?

Stephanie Bond

#3. I loved Aphrodite from the first and steeped myself in her legends. My mother told me that in ancient times her rituals were bloody and cruel, but I only half believed it.

Erica Jong

#4. I could see jabs from his flashlight cutting into the woods on either side of me. He was back there, somewhere. The light beam was like a knife and I didn't want it on my back.

Augusten Burroughs

#5. Christine always wanted to know what was afoot, and any matter on which she was prevented from giving her opinion she took to be going badly.

Jeremias Gotthelf

#6. Frustration is not a work plan.

Ami Ayalon

#7. There are crimes that no one would commit as an individual which he willingly and bravely commits when acting in the name of his society, because he has been (too easily) convinced that evil is entirely different when it is done 'for the common good'.

Thomas Merton

#8. I don't dress this way because I like it so much or because I want people to stare at me in general. But people are going to stare at me for the wrong reasons anyway, and if they are going to stare at me for the wrong reasons, then at least I should get to pick them.

Katja Millay

#9. All men are warriors. And life for everything in our universe is nothing but war.

David Zindell