Quotes About Western Wall

#1. The Knesset is in Israel, and the Western Wall is in Israel, and the sooner the Obama administration realizes this, the closer it will be to a Middle East policy worthy of our country and its long alliance with our ally in Jerusalem - which is, actually, the capital of the state of Israel.

Elliott Abrams

#2. I traveled with then-Senator Obama to Israel in 2008. I will never forget our time in the holy city of Jerusalem and following behind him as he approached the Western Wall - and even in the dark hours of that very early morning, it was a place bustling with energy afforded by one's faith.

Denis McDonough

#3. Palestine, as Icelanders see it, includes the Western Wall of the Second Temple, Judaism's holiest site.

Elliott Abrams

#4. In Udi's vocabulary, Jewish was equated with the ills of exile: rootless parasitic, superstitious. Yet here, in the Western Wall's solitary dignity, was beauty. In this world of stone, he felt softness; in this quarry of memory, peace.

Yossi Klein Halevi

#5. We don't have enough time to premeditate our actions.

Luc De Clapiers

#6. The shot was so precise that the bullet went out his forehead and shattered a whisky bottle against the wall behind the counter.

Justin Bienvenue

#7. There is noting truly valuable which can be purchased without pains and labor. The gods have set a price upon every real and noble pleasure.

Joseph Addison

#8. The heart has its own laws ... and the truth is ... the truth is that you are the law of mine.

Guy Gavriel Kay

#9. No Western nation has to build a wall round itself to keep its people in.

Margaret Thatcher

#10. NATO was constructed on the - with the reason, whether one believes it or not, that it was going to defend Western Europe from Russian assault. Once the Berlin Wall fell and the Soviet Union was beginning to collapse, that reason was gone. So, first question: why does NATO exist?

Noam Chomsky

#11. Each year, Gracie Henderson moons a thousand strangers, collects their shocked faces in an annual photo album.

Aspen Matis

#12. She needed him inside her. Now. "It's past time to put your money where your mouth is."
"You got that all in reverse, sweetheart." He cut off the water and backed her slowly to the wall, his lips curving into a dangerous smile. "It's time to put my mouth where your honey is.

Victoria Vane

#13. Our Western press soldiers from The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, The Economist, etc. (often 1 correspondent for every 200 million Chinese), happily manufacture stories, demonize the Chinese government, and fabricate heroes, saviors, and incidents for China, at will.

Thorsten J. Pattberg

#14. The great achievement of Western culture since the Enlightenment is to make many of us peer over the wall and grant some respect to people outside it; the great failure of Western Culture is to deny that walls are inevitable or important.

James Q. Wilson

#15. And I would never, ever mock the power of love. But it can also distort. Slip over into desperation and delusion.

Louise Penny