Shlomo Quotes

#1. Shlomo Carlebach used to say, if he meets a student who says he is a Protestant, he knows he is a Protestant; if he meets a student who says he is a Catholic, he knows he is a Catholic. If he meets a student who says he is a human being, he knows he is a Jew.

David Wolpe

#2. In fact, you could make the argument that a historian like Shlomo Aronson does in passing in one of his books, that the bombing campaign united the German nation behind Hitler, and actually contributed to the sustaining of his power.

Nicholson Baker

#3. And this was the main precondition, that anything might be something else. Once I'd accepted that, it followed that I might be mad, or that someone might think me mad. How could I say for certain that I wasn't, if I couldn't say for certain that a curtain wasn't a mountain range?

Susanna Kaysen

#4. In Kabbalah, as in the Hassidic tradition, you cure the body, but you fix the soul. Curing takes time, but fixing, if you know how to do it, is immediate.

Shlomo Carlebach

#5. Peoples, populations, native populaces, tribes and religious communities are not nations, even though they are often spoken of as such.

Shlomo Sand

#6. I was an abusive, selfish, needy, angry asshole.
Now I'm just kind of selfish, a little less angry, occasionally needy, with flights of asshole. I've grown.

Marc Maron

#7. My main goal in this book is to deconstruct the concept of the Jewish "historical right" to the Land of Israel and its associated nationalist narratives, whose only purpose was to establish moral legitimacy for the appropriation of territory.

Shlomo Sand

#8. Desires are stronger than dreams. Dreams fade and frizzle out with the night time but desires get stronger until they are granted.

Jaachynma N.E. Agu

#9. If Georgie didn't talk to her kids all day, it was easier to pretend their whole world froze in place while she was at work.
She called them every day. Usually twice.

Rainbow Rowell

#10. I don't think books can change the world, but when the world begins to change, it searches for different books.

Shlomo Sand

#11. the term "Land of Israel" was a later Christian and rabbinical invention that was theological, and by no means political in nature. Indeed, we can cautiously posit that the name first appeared in the New Testament in the Gospel of Matthew.

Shlomo Sand

#12. When you're one step ahead of the crowd you're a genius. When you're two steps ahead, you're a crackpot.

Shlomo Riskin

#13. We are so used to thinking of our conscious selves as in charge that all the evidence documenting our lack of control - how much we depend on split-second perceptions and aesthetic judgments - is rather scary.

Shlomo Benartzi

#14. There are three kinds of friends in the world. An ordinary person sees only who you are; for that you don't need a friend. Then there's a friend who sees in you what you can be. And then there's the real holy Friend, and the presence of this Friend you are already.

Shlomo Carlebach

#15. If I didn't care for fun and such, I'd probably amount to much, but I shall stay the way I am, because I do not give a damn.

Dorothy Parker

#16. If certain Jewish communities had distinctive qualities, they were due to history, not biology.

Shlomo Sand

#17. Remember, a person who wins success may have been counted out many times before. He wins because he refuses to give up.

Kemmons Wilson

#18. Jeremy, there are many things I would do to help you, but digging a hole in the wintry earth with my bare hands so that you can bury the corpse of a dog you've killed is not one of them.

Mark Corrigan

#19. Behind every act in Israel's identity politics stretches, like a long black shadow, the idea of an eternal power and race.

Shlomo Sand

#20. I believe neither in the past existence of a Jewish people, exiled from its land, nor in the premise that the Jews are originally descended from the ancient land of Judea.

Shlomo Sand

#21. Names of regions and countries change over time, and it is sometimes common to refer to ancient lands using names assigned to them later in history. However, this linguistic custom has typically been practiced only in the absence of other known and acceptable names for the places in question.

Shlomo Sand

#22. I never thought that sex was wrong, sinful, dirty. When you take away the thought of things being dirty or forbidden, then you can really enjoy your sensuality.

Gioconda Belli

#23. There is no tears without joy; there is no joy without tears.

Shlomo Carlebach

#24. One of the secrets of the Muslim army's power was its relatively liberal attitude toward the religions of the defeated people-provided they were monoththeists, of course. Muhammad's commandment to treat Jews and Christians as "People of The book" gave them legal protection.

Shlomo Sand

#25. Some people sleep until morning. Others know they have to bring the morning.

Shlomo Carlebach

#26. To the dismay of anti-Semites, the Jews were never a foreign "ethnos" of invaders from afar but rather an autochthonous population whose ancestors, for the most part, converted to Judaism before the arrival of Christianity or Islam.17

Shlomo Sand

#27. The citizens have "the extraordinary and exhausting practice of sitting down to dinner at any time between 10m and 11 p.m. I found it challenging to stay animated and conversational when my normal bedtime was usually about the time that the first course was being cleared".

Tony Leon

#28. The obvious danger is that in some situations [denial] can lead to procrastination in seeking help or to avoidance of action that might prevent harm.

Shlomo Breznitz

#29. In no text or archaeological finding do we find the term "Land of Israel" used to refer to a defined geographic region. This

Shlomo Sand

#30. On Shabbat something happens to the world - the world becomes infinite again.

Shlomo Carlebach

#31. That space between the white lines, that's my office. That's where I conduct my business.

Early Wynn

#32. I wish I was Sienna Miller. When I talk to her, I hope a bit of her party personality will rub off on me, but it never does.

Keira Knightley