Top 42 Shmuel Yosef Agnon Quotes
#1. God in heaven sits on high and plays games with us. He has plenty to do up there, what with building worlds and then knocking them down again, breaking things up and then rebuilding them, and yet he can manage to put his mind even to a little grocer in his shop or to a babe in the cradle.
Shmuel Yosef Agnon
#2. I grew up in a world that told girls they couldn't play rock and roll.
Joan Jett
#3. If I am proud of anything, it is that I have been granted the privilege of living in the land which God promised our forefathers to give us, as it is written.
Shmuel Yosef Agnon
#4. Around us, the disembodied human limbs were piling up, forming a circle around the fountain, fusing themselves to each other like Satan's LEGO set.
David Wong
#5. Compliments of congratulation are always kindly taken, and cost nothing but pen, ink and paper. I consider them as draughts upon good breeding, where the exchange is always greatly in favor of the drawer.
Lord Chesterfield
#6. When I first began to combine letters other than Hebrew, I read every book in German that came my way, and from these I certainly received according to the nature of my soul.
Shmuel Yosef Agnon
#7. when two strains compete for the same resources, the strain with an internal timing system that is most adapted to its temporal environment has the greatest advantage.
Till Roenneberg
#8. The fate of the singers who, like my songs, went up in flame was also the fate of the books which I later wrote. All of them went up in flame to Heaven in a fire which broke out one night at my home in Bad Homburg as I lay ill in a hospital.
Shmuel Yosef Agnon
#10. There's another difference between us, Mr. Scoresby. A witch would no sooner give up flying than give up breathing. To fly is to be perfectly ourselves.
Philip Pullman
#11. I don't think I understand the concept of regret. Because if I regret anything, that would mean, like, I hate myself.
Tao Lin
#12. Also, schools share some responsibility and should offer helpful orientations that include general information about such recruitment efforts on their campuses.
Rick Ross
#13. I returned to Jerusalem, and it is by virtue of Jerusalem that I have written all that God has put into my heart and into my pen.
Shmuel Yosef Agnon
#14. Albert Camus wrote, In the midst of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.
Martha N. Beck
#15. I am generally ashamed to walk out in new clothes. And why am I ashamed? Is it because I don't want to embarrass the others who don't have new things? Or perhaps because a new coat makes you stand out, and you seem to be clothes and nothing else.
Shmuel Yosef Agnon
#16. I have also written a book about the Giving of the Torah, and a book on the Days of Awe, and a book on the books of Israel that have been written since the day the Torah was given to Israel.
Shmuel Yosef Agnon
#17. One single idea may have greater weight than all the men, animals, and machines for a century.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#18. I was five years old when I wrote my first song. It was out of longing for my father that I wrote it.
Shmuel Yosef Agnon
#19. As a result of the historic catastrophe in which Titus of Rome destroyed Jerusalem and Israel was exiled from its land, I was born in one of the cities of the Exile.
Shmuel Yosef Agnon
#20. People's talk and the stories they tell have been engraved on my heart, and some of them have flown into my pen.
Shmuel Yosef Agnon
#22. If we eat any food, or drink any beverage, we must recite a blessing over them before and after.
Shmuel Yosef Agnon
#23. Our days on earth are like a shadow, and the time of our affliction is the length of our days.
Shmuel Yosef Agnon
#26. The beginnings of my studies also came to me from my father, as well as from the Rabbinical Judge of our town. But they were preceded by three tutors under whom I studied, one after the other, from the time I was three and a half till I turned eight and a half.
Shmuel Yosef Agnon
#27. It is not enough for a man to dwell in the Land of Israel, he must also pray to be free.
Shmuel Yosef Agnon
#28. Why did I choose to fight him? He was going to die whether I fought him or not, and he was dangerous, half my age and a warrior. But it is reputation, always reputation. Pride, I suppose, is the most treacherous of virtues.
Bernard Cornwell
#29. At the age of nineteen and a half, I went to the Land of Israel to till its soil and live by the labour of my hands. As I did not find work, I sought my livelihood elsewhere.
Shmuel Yosef Agnon
#30. If I were in the government, I would persuade the prime minister to see the beauty in the fact that people see Israel as a haven - from their sadness to their hope.
Elie Wiesel
#31. After all my possessions had been burned, God gave me the wisdom to return to Jerusalem.
Shmuel Yosef Agnon
#32. Our sages of blessed memory have said that we must not enjoy any pleasure in this world without reciting a blessing.
Shmuel Yosef Agnon
#34. Annabeth sat up and glared at her ankle.
"You HAD to break," she scolded it.
The ankle did not reply.
Rick Riordan
#35. On everything you need to hear other people's opinions. It's the only way to do things. You ask a friend's advice and then between the two of you things somehow get clearer.
Shmuel Yosef Agnon
#36. Not every man remembers the name of the cow which supplied him with each drop of milk he has drunk.
Shmuel Yosef Agnon
#37. Through these offices it was my privilege to get to know almost every Jewish person, and those whom I did not come to know through these offices I came to know through love and a desire to know my brethren, the members of my people.
Shmuel Yosef Agnon
#38. It's the mishaps that make it fun, and brings you the surprise.
Anna Wintour
#39. Carter, it's not about sex. It's about showing our love for one another. It's about expressing our feelings for each other without words. It's about two people who share a connection so strong, so deep that no one could take it away.
Annie Brewer
#40. Through a historical catastrophe - the destruction of Jerusalem by the emperor of Rome - I was born in one of the cities in the diaspora. But I always deemed myself a child of Jerusalem, one who is in reality a native of Jerusalem.
Shmuel Yosef Agnon
#41. But perhaps the truth newly discovered is itself only temporary and when new discoveries are made these truths too will be abandoned. But one truth remains for ever, and that is the search for truth.
Shmuel Yosef Agnon
#42. If we breathe the scent of goodly grass, the fragrance of spices, the aroma of good fruits, we pronounce a blessing over the pleasure.
Shmuel Yosef Agnon
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