Peretz Quotes

#1. [About Jews] Among other nations, the vital problems are: a good crop, extension of the boundaries, strong armies, colonies; among us, if we wish to be true to ourselves, the vital questions are: conscience, freedom, culture, ethics.

I.L. Peretz

#2. Youth is fair, a graceful stag, Leaping, playing in a park. Age is gray, a toothless hag, Stumbling in the dark.

I.L. Peretz

#3. If the only reason I coached was to win basketball games, my life would be pretty shallow

Mike Krzyzewski

#4. [About Jews] By nature we are like all other human beings, yet our people is unlike others, because our life is different, our history is different, our teacher is the Exile.

I.L. Peretz

#5. Ugliness is the greatest of all sins.

I.L. Peretz

#6. Purim is the birthday of the first Schutz-Jude , the first Jewish toady to foreign royalty.

I.L. Peretz

#7. Many people are unaware that their every action (or their disinclination to take action) is a result of a belief or a thought pattern that developed throughout the years.

Gil Peretz, Nili Peretz

#8. Good and evil are not fixed, stable entities but are continually trading places. A good may be transformed into an evil in the next second. And vice versa. Such

Haruki Murakami

#9. I think that marriage is beautiful. And if it's a partnership with someone you love, then it really is beautiful. Yeah, I think that marriage does work.

Alicia Keys

#10. Many refined people will not kill a fly, but eat an ox.

I.L. Peretz

#11. [About Jews] Sheer egotism compels us to the purest love of mankind as a whole ... Our hearts are like a sponge, receptive to all the newest humanitarian ideas; and our sympathy goes out to all the unfortunate, all the oppressed.

I.L. Peretz

#12. It's funny when you feel as if you don't want anything more in your life except to sleep, or else to lie without moving. That's when you can hear time sliding past you, like water running.

Jean Rhys

#13. A letter depends on how you read it, a melody on how you sing it.

I.L. Peretz

#14. It is not only individuals peoples too cannot live merely for themselves. The whole world must be redeemed.

I.L. Peretz

#15. Prayer sometimes dulls the hunger of the pauper, like a mother's finger thrust into the mouth of her starving baby.

I.L. Peretz

#16. At the Throne of Glory it is not the nobly-born that are beloved, but the nobly-risen.

I.L. Peretz

#17. A people's memory is history; and as a man without a memory, so a people without a history cannot grow wiser, better.

I.L. Peretz

#18. The single most important component of a camera is the twelve inches behind it!

Ansel Adams

#19. [About the diaspora] Canaan is too small for God's children. The Land of Israel will spread through all lands!

I.L. Peretz

#20. A heap of bricks is not yet a house.

I.L. Peretz

#21. Time is change, transformation, evolution.

I.L. Peretz

#22. The worst dog gets the best bone.

I.L. Peretz

#23. The saint and poet seek privacy to ends the most public and universal: and it is the secret of culture, to interest the man more in his public, than in his private quality.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#24. We take a drink only for the sake of the benediction.

I.L. Peretz

#25. Perhaps, however, music retains a survival role in adults in that it allows the 'practice' of feeling emotions without having to risk the consequences of acting on these emotions.

Isabelle Peretz

#26. Prosperity may be found in small as in big business.

I.L. Peretz

#27. In the second and third exiles we have served as a living protest against greed and hate, against physical force, against "might makes right"!

I.L. Peretz

#28. Societies are healthiest when their radius of trust is broad and when people feel they can influence their own fate.

James Fallows

#29. Don't look up to heaven, for what will you see in the sky, except stars, luminous but cold, wholly insensitive to pity?

I.L. Peretz

#30. No one in our town ever really died, because no one in our town ever lived, or did good or evil. We had no saints or sinners, only daydreamers in the World of Illusion.

I.L. Peretz

#31. In this world it is very dangerous to be weak.

I.L. Peretz

#32. A stranger's rose is but a thorn.

I.L. Peretz

#33. If the husband sits on a chair in the Garden of Eden, his wife is his footstool.

I.L. Peretz

#34. To be of the eternal, you must be of the earth.

I.L. Peretz