Ophir Quotes

#1. Identifying Israel with Jewry obscures the existence of the small but important post-Zionist movement in Israel, including the philosophers Adi Ophir and Anat Biletzki, the sociologist Uri Ram, the professor of theatre Avraham Oz and the poet Yitzhak Laor.

Judith Butler

#2. For the cat is cryptic, and close to strange things which men cannot see. He is the soul of antique Aegyptus, and bearer of tales from forgotten cities in Meroe and Ophir. He

H.P. Lovecraft

#3. Quinquireme of Nineveh from distant Ophir, Rowing home to haven in sunny Palestine, With a cargo of ivory, And apes and peacocks, Sandalwood, cedarwood, and sweet white wine.

John Masefield

#4. The least-bad scenario is a hard landing, global recession worse than the 1930s. The worst-case borrows from the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse: war, famine, pestilence and death.

Kenneth S. Deffeyes

#5. Stay away from stingy people. They are trapped in small souls.

Anne Fortier

#6. The thing that's really kept me on my toes is how my mom would always tell me - it's not the best thing for a mother to tell you - but she'd never tell me after I'd lose a soccer game, 'You'll do better next time.' She'd always say, 'There's always somebody better.'

Brandon Flowers

#7. Disappointment is the end of an illusion.

Kristian Goldmund Aumann

#8. Money often costs too much, and power and pleasure are not cheap.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#9. In high school, I started my first company, called M Cubed Software. We named it that because it was me and two other guys named Mike.

Mike McCue

#10. Generally, I like to appear smart. I don't admit being stupid when there's any hope I'm not.

Michelle Sagara West

#11. Offering thanks in the midst of tragedy is an American tradition, . even during a bloody Civil War.

Abraham Lincoln

#12. I'm no ethnomusicologist. There is a connection between the five-note scale used both in traditional Chinese music and the blues, but I don't really understand it. All I know is, whenever I play with Chinese musicians, we seem to belong to the same musical gene pool.

Abigail Washburn

#13. I wanted a woman who had the body and the power of a real pilot. I interviewed hundreds of woman, but Jessica just seemed perfect for the part. I couldn't get her out of my head. I continued to bother her and she finally gave in.

Rob Cohen

#14. I am angry nearly every day of my life, but I have learned not to show it; and I still try to hope not to feel it, though it may take me another forty years to do it.

Louisa May Alcott

#15. I love yoga. I do yoga when I have time, which is not very often.

Maria Sharapova

#16. There is no sense in doing a wonderful script with somebody who can't direct because that is a disaster.

Robert Culp

#17. Contrary to what everyone thinks, in my family, we didn't talk about politics at home.

Marion Marechal-Le Pen

#18. Prejudice is never easy unless it can pass itself off for reason.

William Hazlitt