Patai Quotes

#1. Everything I do, I'm sort of half in, half out.

Harrison Ford

#2. A bodily disease which we look upon as whole and entire within itself, may after all, be but a symptom of some ailment in the spiritual part.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#3. ...Pigpen's currently sitting on as he drinks a beer.
He's been Violet's shadow since Eli left town with Cyrus a few days ago.

Katie McGarry

#4. As we seek God, it's best not to focus on asking about the future. It's not about picking and choosing which pieces of information we think God should give us. Rather, we listen for what He wants to tell us, and then gratefully accept whatever that happens to be.

Susan Rohrer

#5. Writing, I explained, was mainly an attempt to out-argue one's past; to present events in such a light that battles lost in life were either won on paper or held to a draw.

Jules Feiffer

#6. Every painting is always two paintings: The one you see, and the one you remember.

Siri Hustvedt

#7. I'd tell you nice try, but ... it wasn't.

Cynder

#8. It is in the fusion of autochthonous Jews with semi-Jewish Khazars and Kabars in the tenth century that we must seek the earliest demographic basis of the Jewish population of medieval Hungary.

Raphael Patai