Shalev Quotes

#1. Everyone who makes a mistake knows in advance that he's going to make a mistake, he simply can't stop himself. The surprise is perhaps a reaction to the size of the mistake, not the fact of its existence.

Zeruya Shalev

#2. A homing pigeon must love her home; otherwise she will not wish to return to it,

Meir Shalev

#3. Mine is the tongue tied silence of awkwardness, hers the smiling silence of anticipation, and then we utter inanities to each other, like "beautiful weather arranged for us" and "I like these kind of clouds.

Meir Shalev

#4. You can judge a society by the way it treats it's animals

Mahatma Gandhi

#5. In the first grade, I already knew the pattern of my life. I didn't know the living of it, but I knew the line ... From the first day in school until the day I graduated, everyone gave me one hundred plus in art. Well, where do you go in life? You go to the place where you got one hundred plus.

Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

#6. You've missed it again, you've gone wrong again, you thought you had time, you thought that even someone whose days were numbered would wait for you. That's the kind of person you are, dozing while more opportunities pass you by (...)

Zeruya Shalev

#7. His parents joined the dance of the butterflies.

Helga Zeiner

#8. Mathematics is the summit of human thinking. It has all the creativity and imagination that you can find in all kinds of art, but unlike art-charlatans and all kinds of quacks will not succeed there.

Meir Shalev

#9. I'm a bit shy, I suppose, and a bit lazy.

Joan Collins

#10. A woman has to look good, but a man - a little bit nicer looking than a monkey is enough.

Meir Shalev

#11. That's true freedom for a person. Not money, but time.

Meir Shalev

#12. It was so easy to disappear, so easy to deny knowledge, so very easy in the smoke and din to mask that something dark had taken root. This was Chicago, on the eve of the greatest fair in history.

Erik Larson

#13. How scary and sudden the shift from Living to Dead.

Marisha Pessl

#14. The greatest deterrent to giving is the illusion that this earth is our home.

Randy Alcorn