Silvan Quotes

#1. Darwin knew that the mother of the blush was shame. For Darwin, shame defines our essential humanity. Silvan Tomkins views shame as an innate feeling that limits our experience of interest, curiosity and pleasure.

John Bradshaw

#2. I'm sorry, Silvan. I didn't mean to wake you."
"I wouldn't have missed seeing my son getting barricaded in the privy by a wee lass for anything. Bonny fortune with your plan, m'dear.

Karen Marie Moning

#3. I was a massive Tolkien fan. 'The Hobbit' was ... my favorite book as a little girl, and the Silvan Elves were my favorite characters in the book.

Evangeline Lilly

#4. We are not going to damage our safety and our security. We're not going to give those extremists the privilege to come so freely to Israel in order to carry out more attacks against us and kill us one day after another.

Silvan Shalom

#5. It's not a democracy here, it's the Middle East.

Silvan Shalom

#6. In 1988, King Hussein of Jordan said that it doesn't take any connection any more to those territories, and he would like to split from those territories. So according to the international law, it doesn't belong to anyone.

Silvan Shalom

#7. Americans are very enthusiastic. We have a new generation of moviegoers who love great horror films. I am a very imaginative man, and for me, it's easy to speak with my dark side. I have very beautiful, interesting nightmares.

Dario Argento

#8. Happiness is the enemy. It weakens you, puts doubts in your mind. Suddenly, you have something to lose.

Daniel Bruhl

#9. I suppose most things in a person's life are good for a while, even if that doesn't last very long. Maybe that is why, even after something has gone wrong, we spend so much time trying to fix it. Because we remember when it wasn't broken.

Claire Legrand

#10. Certainly a wilderness area, a little portion of our planet left alone ... will furnish us with a number of very important uses ... If we are wise, we will cherish what we have left of such places in our land.

Olaus Murie

#11. Most of the international community, most of the countries around the world, don't want any side, any party to take unilateral steps. They would like that all of us to stick to the road map.

Silvan Shalom

#12. Brain, v. [as in "to brain"]: To rebuke bluntly, but not pointedly; to dispel a source of error in an opponent.

Ambrose Bierce

#13. My life, the most truthful one, is unrecognizable, extremely interior, and there is no single word that gives it meaning.

Clarice Lispector

#14. The security fence is reversible. Human lives are irreversible.

Silvan Shalom

#15. In my view, Arafat is the only Palestinian in the world that isn't willing to have an independent Palestinian state.

Silvan Shalom

#16. We have been in the territories since 1967. In 2002, we had sometimes three or four suicide attacks every day. We came to the conclusion that it can't continue like that.

Silvan Shalom

#17. A 'dreamer' is one possesses the gift of dreaming by day. Sure, many dream at night, but don't also small babies and animals dream at night? To dream by day and dream aloud: Is this not the reward for all the troubles we humans must face?

Roman Payne

#18. We have the responsibility to protect our people and that's why we're building this fence. We've suffered from 19,000 terrorist attacks during the last three years.

Silvan Shalom

#19. Be a loner. That gives you time to wonder, to search for the truth. Have holy curiosity. Make your life worth living.

Albert Einstein

#20. The Palestinians will never, never implement their commitment to dismantle their infrastructure of terrorist organizations.

Silvan Shalom

#21. Love, as I understand it, is learned through hardship and sacrifice, through dedication and commitment.

Jamila Hammad

#22. No one can compare us to the apartheid regime. It's not like in South Africa between the blacks and the whites who belong to the same nation, or in Berlin where you find parents living on the eastern side and their children in the western side.

Silvan Shalom

#23. I'd like to ask you: what you would prefer us to do? I'd like to ask my colleagues, would any other country act differently? I think the answer is very clear. No one would act differently.

Silvan Shalom

#24. We believe that we should come to an agreement with the Palestinians. But we need two to tango.

Silvan Shalom

#25. Suicide bombers caused us more than 50 percent of our casualties. The fence works. There is a decline in the number of those terrorist attacks against Israelis.

Silvan Shalom

#26. Cease-fire is important, but it can last only for a very, very, very short time.

Silvan Shalom

#27. He who thinks always of the Lord, which way can evil come to him?

Sarada Devi

#28. There's no preventative measure between the Palestinians, between those terrorists to the state of Israel.

Silvan Shalom

#29. That's the big letdown you'll notice about filming a movie: No underline music. No mood music.

Chuck Palahniuk

#30. We would like to ease the life of the Palestinians. I prepared a new plan that we call a positive agenda.

Silvan Shalom

#31. Most of my favorite writers are over forty, and so I suppose I'll only name a few of the writers whose work I find myself constantly returning to: Edward P. Jones, Marilynne Robinson, Kazuo Ishiguro, V. S. Naipaul, Toni Morrison, and Philip Roth.

Dinaw Mengestu